Tender News

The Pixies' song 'Velouria' from their Bossanova album is a tender love song. Its guitars surge and glitter, and Kim Deal's bass provides a pulse. A theremin suggests gravity has been suspended, adding to its glorious strangeness. Black Francis sings as if astonished by finding someone miraculous and potentially staying. The song combines rock force with delicate half-remembered summer feelings.

In a measure that paves the way for domestic consultancies to be on an equal footing with multinational consulting firms, the Department of Expenditure has issued an advisory to all central government departments and ministries for easing of eligibility criter