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Jun 7, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jane Anderson |Laura McKay
In November 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) introduced a series of new measures in a bid to tackle greenwashing and increase the transparency over claims regulated firms make about the sustainability of their products and services offered to consumers. Greenwashing refers to a practice where false or misleading claims are made about a product or service that implies they are more environmentally sound than they actually are.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Laura McKay |Jane Anderson
Hugh Grant has recently (17 April 2024) spoken about how he has reluctantly settled his claim against News Group Newspapers (NGN), publishers for The Sun newspaper, for an “enormous” sum of money. Mr Grant’s claim is just one of several brought by celebrities in recent years over the alleged phone hacking scandals by some newspapers.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
policyme.com | Laura McKay
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Laura McKay
By Laura Jean McKayJanuary 3, 2024, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They were punks but I wasn’t. You had to be in a band. I had blue hair and then I shaved my head. Queensland police were often following and stopping me, once screeching up a kerb to leap out and question my movements, even though my movements weren’t that interesting. A boyfriend gave me The Philosophy of Punk before we broke up.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Laura McKay
When Somali-British singer Poly Styrene belted the anti-consumerist feminist war cry Oh Bondage! Up Yours! with X-Ray Spex at The Roxy in Convent Garden in 1977, she included images of oppression in her lyrics. For her, the link between the violence of imperialism, destructive consumerism and sexism seemed inevitable, and she laid it out in operatic tones.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Laura McKay
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Some of Australia’s best-loved writers revisit the places close to their hearts.See all 6 stories. ″Has the man in room one checked out yet?” asks a bearded person. “He has.” The receptionist behind the peeling vinyl desk is slight, but I wouldn’t mess with him. He’s wiry from fighting so hard in this life. “Well, he stole something from me,” says the beard.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
mdpi.com | Laura McKay |Natali Joma |Issan Zhang |Germanna L. Righetto
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
beatlyzer.com | Laura McKay
I started a book club and we don’t publication books. We emotion novels – we are novelists, arsenic good arsenic nonfiction writers, academics and editors; voracious readers, all. But we’ve dragged ourselves done capable boozy, affectional “I hated it/I didn’t publication it/well, I loved it” book clubs to tally screaming. Now we stitchery astatine a hippy pub clutching a slim measurement aliases tapping connected a link. One published short story, 1 hour, erstwhile a period (or so).
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Laura McKay
I started a book club and we don’t read books. We love novels – we are novelists, as well as nonfiction writers, academics and editors; voracious readers, all. But we’ve dragged ourselves through enough boozy, emotional “I hated it/I didn’t read it/well, I loved it” book clubs to run screaming. Now we gather at a hippy pub clutching a slim volume or tapping on a link. One published short story, one hour, once a month (or so). Arrive, order chips and beer, rip through the story, done.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
waterstones.com | Laura McKay |Ned Beauman
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