Since the 1950s, in its search for cheap raw material and cheap labour, IKEA has used wood from outside Sweden. IKEA currently sources 90% of its timber from outside Sweden. In the 1980s, IKEA made clandestine, six-figure payments to the Securitate, Romania’s brutal secret police. Today, IKEA is the largest private forest landowner in Romania. In its 2020 report, “Flatpacked Forests”, Earthsight investigates IKEA’s operations in Ukraine and Romania.
Greetings from not sunny, not warm, and not dry Los Angeles! Truly feeling so #blessed that my West Coast escape is giving damp New England vibes. It’s exactly what I was hoping for. I’m spending the rest of December in LA because come January, I will be moving into my own place in one of my favorite New York neighborhoods! More on that soon. I’m too exhausted to even begin to try to put a spin on this move, so I’m just going to be honest and say that I am experiencing the very visceral end to an almost 6-year relationship – and all the sadness, anxiety, confusion, and liberation that might imply.
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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: an actress gets candid, an actor gets a pizza, and Romy Mars gets ungrounded. Paid subscribers got an in-depth look at the Bennifer divorce rumors this week — click here to catch up! And don’t worry, we’re still talking about them today. What is Jessica Biel ever doing? I have been asking myself this since she opened and pretty quickly closed a boozy restaurant for children in West Hollywood in 2016 called Au Fudge (a clever play on Oh Fuck).
The Christmas season brings to mind, for reasons rather impressionistic, the fact that my first name John is often thought to mean “God’s gift.” It actually did not begin meaning that, precisely, and the idea that it did is rooted in a common misimpression that, on some level, John is a shortened form of Jonathan. Often, people wanting to address me with mock formality will lengthen my name to Jonathan, as if this were the equivalent of calling a Jim James or a Bob Robert.