Clubcard Nation: how supermarket loyalty schemes make cash-strapped Brits an offer they can’t refuse (POLITICO)
By Ben Munster · Aug 8, 2023, MANCHESTER — Belvita fruit crunch, Crimble’s Big Choc Macaroons, Elvive Colour Protect shampoo — all among the many goods Brits purchase in vast quantities everyday, and all painfully expensive in U.K. supermarkets as the cost-of-living crisis continues to take its toll. At a growing number of supermarkets, relief […]
Russia shoots for the moon as space race against US heats up (POLITICO)
By Joshua Posaner, Matt Berg, Laura Hülsemann · Aug 10, 2023 Despite war and sanctions, Vladimir Putin is trying to haul Russia back into the space race. In the early hours of Friday morning, state space agency Roscosmos is poised to launch the country’s first lunar mission in nearly half a century as an ambitious […]
