Nicola Sturgeon sets date for fresh Scottish independence referendum
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Scotland’s first minister plans to hold ‘consultative’ vote in October 2023
Investors seeking inflation hedge snap up US farmland
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Prices for prime Midwest ground climbed by up to a third in past year as world food prices hit records
Amazon criticised over charity work scheme for injured warehouse staff https://www.ft.com/content/a77a1adf-723c-48d4-99ae-6df9855e1bdc "One role for a senior software engineer detailed how the company wished to create an automated in-house system for matching hurt workers with appropriate external positions."
Important to understand: We simply cannot make the transition to EVs until we have innovation in mining, in recycling old batteries, and in charging new ones. https://on.ft.com/3vbnabc “The west has been remarkably slow to adopt a strategy to...secure a supply chain [of lithium].”
"Latvia’s defence minister: 'After seeing Russian atrocities against civilians, if some in the free west still do not understand that we must do everything to make Russians lose and depart from [the] whole [of] Ukraine, then I am sorry for the west.'” https://on.ft.com/36PgWFX