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Funding fights, memoirs by Boris Becker and Stallone, plus the queen of romantasy: this year’s London book fair

The 2025 book trade jamboree featured a bonanza of heart-shaped fiction, celebrity memoirs, and some vexed discussion about festival finances and children’s reading

The Guardian - UK

Holyrood pension scheme urged to divest from Tesla over Elon Musk 'toxicity'

AN MSP has been raised concerns about the Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme’s investments in Tesla amid the global backlash against owner Elon…

The National (Scotland)

‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money

The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the age of extinction and despair

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Award-winning author delays receiving £50,000 prize over ‘fossil fuel’ concerns

Richard Flanagan became the first to win the non-fiction Baillie Gifford Prize and a Booker Prize for fiction, which he took in 2014.

Evening Standard

Baillie Gifford prize-winner Richard Flanagan delays £50,000 award money over fossil fuel ties

Richard Flanagan became the first person in history to win both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Evening Standard

What are your rights to work from home? Amazon to enforce five-day-a-week office policy

Amazon and Baillie Gifford are two organisations enforcing their employees to return to the office for five days a week

Evening Standard

NIO Stock Forecast: Is It All Over for This EV Stock, or Will NIO Recover in 2025?

NIO has lost over half of its market cap in 2024, and continues to languish near all-time lows. Is it 'game over' for NIO, or can the stock recover and go back up in 2025?

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London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors

Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors

The Guardian - UK

Baillie Gifford boycotts achieve nothing

Letter: Fossil Free Books has heightened the risk of sponsoring the arts, says Finbarr O’Mahony

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Baillie Gifford sponsorship row: writing is on the wall for book lovers

Now the investment fund is pulling out of literary festivals, what other sponsors will dare expose themselves to the scrutiny of Fossil Free Books?

The Guardian - UK

Filthy lucre is everywhere, but book festivals are an easy target for protesters’ fury

Hay and Edinburgh forgo pragmatism in turning their backs on the Baillie Gifford fund

The Guardian - UK

Authors threaten to boycott 2024 Edinburgh International Book Festival over sponsor’s fossil fuel links

Writers have raised concerns about the event’s main sponsor, investment management firm Baillie Gifford

The Independent UK

Of course Greta Thunberg is right to call out greenwashing, but the reality can be messy

Her withdrawal from the Edinburgh book festival raises questions about how best to demand change, says Guardian columnist Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh Book Festival faces threat of boycott from authors over fossil fuel links

AUTHORS appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival are demanding organisers end their links with “fossil fuel companies” – and…

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The Times of India

Greta Thunberg cancels her participation at the Edinburgh Book Festival due to 'greenwashing'

Climate activist and author Greta Thunberg has canceled her much-anticipated participation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year. The reason: Greta said the festival sponsor is heavily invested in fossil fuels, and she accused them of "greenwashing".

The Guardian - UK

Greta Thunberg accuses Edinburgh book festival sponsor of ‘greenwashing’

Climate activist pulls out of event, saying sponsor Baillie Gifford invests heavily in fossil fuel industry

The National (Scotland)

Greta Thunberg cancels Edinburgh book festival appearance over 'greenwashing' row

CLIMATE activist Greta Thunberg has cancelled her appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer.

The Guardian - UK

True believers in Ocado should not be tempted by Amazon

The speculated bid price of £8 today should not excite those who think a return to £28 is conceivable

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Edinburgh Live

Hibs and Hearts to battle it out for Women's Capital Cup with fans able to attend for free

The rivals will first play at Easter Road on Sunday 27 November 2022, with the return taking place at Tynecastle on Sunday 26 February, 2023. The winner of each game will land the silverware and the bragging rights

Insider UK

Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme sells Russian equities

Trustee chair confirms fund manager Baillie Gifford is in the process of divesting any financial exposures

The Independent UK

Edinburgh University has more than £1m invested in sanctioned Russian bank

As of January, the university has £1,109,251 worth of Sberbank shares, held via Edinburgh-based fund managers Baillie Gifford.

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