Phil Brown

You cooked a perfect quinoa dish in your Instant Pot, but now you’re left with a nasty case of Instant Pot Lid Funk. Today we’ll tell you why, and we’ll also share experts’ suggestions for exiling the stink from your kitchen for good.The…
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The job advert seemed timely. It offered between £500-£1,000 a week to work from home as an agent for cryptocurrency transactions. Lauren*, 21, was heavily in debt after a period of unpaid sick leave and leapt at the chance to rebalance her…
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Q I own a house in Leeds, which I loved living in for several years. When I got together with my partner, however, he didn’t. So I let the house and he and I jointly bought an old house with a huge garden in a regeneration area nearby. We…
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Trading in shares of debt-laden China Evergrande was suspended by the Hong Kong exchange on Monday after the enormous Chinese developer missed a key bond interest payment last week, its second offshore debt obligation in a week.With…
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Receive free Design updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Design news every morning.“I wouldn’t consider myself a collector but, you know, I’m 57, I’ve been around for a while. I’ve got a lot of stuff,” says…
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By Susie MesureFew American homes are known for their history in the same way as many of their European counterparts. But the solid white mansion tucked away in a corner of Bainbridge Island, a ferry hop from Seattle, Washington, would…
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The building offers “optimum air purification” for health-conscious workers, according to a broker for 799 Broadway.Binyan Studios The first lease has been signed at Columbia Property Trust’s…
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The former prime minister Gordon Brown has demanded fresh government financial support for households struggling to pay energy bills as he warned almost a million more households would be in fuel poverty this winter.Poor households were…
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Nurses, teachers and post office workers are among those facing crippling fire-safety bills which they believe could reach £85,000 each despite only owning a fraction of their homes.Housing association Optivo this week told key workers in…
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When I was 17 I coveted work experience at the NME more than any other placement. This was early 2005, when the Libertines were responsible for the dominant north London teenage aesthetic. Schoolboys unironically wore crimson Victorian…
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