Conrad Quilty-Harper

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  • This photograph taken on October 3, 2023 shows a product used to eradicate bedbugs at the Hygiene Premium, pest control shop in Paris. The French government said on September 29, 2023 that it was launching a concerted effort to fight bedbugs that have appeared in numbers in public transport, cinemas and hospitals. The blood-sucking insects have been spotted in the Paris metro, high-speed trains and at Paris’s Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, with disgusted travellers posting videos on social media. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)

    France declares war on bedbugs—and so far the bedbugs are winning

    By Conrad Quilty-Harper, Albertina Torsoli, and others
  • UK restaurants energy prices

    A Michelin-starred chef in the U.K. says his energy bills have gone up 600% and warns that surging prices will cause other businesses to ‘shut it all down and reopen in spring’

    By Conrad Quilty-Harper and Bloomberg
  • Tom Cruise in Ray-Ban sunglassesLifestyle

    Top Gun: Maverick and Y2K nostalgia is now fueling the sunglass industry

    By Conrad Quilty-Harper and Bloomberg
  • Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla’s more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn’t a bailout of the struggling solar provider. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSuccess

    Elon Musk also threatened to buy my company. Here’s how we handled it

    By Conrad Quilty-Harper and Bloomberg