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Best practice needs the human touch

Resilience in business is rooted in paying heed to staff behaviour




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How giving back can pay back

Sharing skills is just one way FT Future 100 UK companies help their local area




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Shia LaBeouf’s childhood is re-enacted in the manic tragicomedy Honey Boy

An autobiographical movie that strips bare the actor’s early years




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Jumanji: The Next Level — Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black go full video game

Drama and substance are peripheral in a movie that’s as lacking in humanity as you might expect




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Terry Jones, actor, writer and director, 1942-2020

The versatile Monty Python star who sided with the underdog




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Kirk Douglas, Hollywood actor, 1916—2020

For a postwar movie generation Kirk Douglas was the definition of ‘macho’




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Max von Sydow, actor, 1929-2020

Master of high miserabilism who starred in ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Seventh Seal’




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NHS tracing app in question as experts assess Google-Apple model

Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system




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FT’s legal hackathon races to ease pandemic pressures

Projects under way range from more efficient legal aid to facilitating esignatures




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UK starts to build second contact tracing app

NHS team is told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google




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Coronavirus accelerates switch to online MBAs

Online courses grow while future of campus-based qualifications is questioned




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Education leaders look for students with practical potential and ‘Midlands grit’

Teaching geared to developing ‘ability to use wide range of career skills’




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Remote teaching becomes vital during virus outbreak

Universities and business schools are facing unprecedented challenges across the world




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The executive education courses tackling burnout

Growing understanding of the costs and fading stigma is driving demand 




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Jesuits on a mission left legacy of living happily

Hidden paradise blossomed for 150 years until settlements overrun by plunderers




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Ayoreo people struggle to counter Chaco deforestation

Legislation has improved but signs of progress are thin on ground




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Horacio Cartes has eye on smoking out business potential

Controversial cigarette tycoon and ex-president still wields influence




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Guaidó representative recognised at fractious OAS

Organization of American States voted to accept Venezuela’s US-backed alternative regime




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Colombia heads back towards its violent past

Farc declaration of war raises fears of a fresh outbreak of conflict




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Poverty, priests and politics: why Peronism is back in Argentina

As ‘slum priests’ try to fill the gap left by the state, the populist movement is on the rise again




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Latin America faces a second ‘lost decade’

From Chile to Bolivia, revolts against leaders from left and right have root causes in stagnant growth and weak investment




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Facebook recruits great and good for a chance at change

Appointments including former PM and Nobel laureate suggest turn toward establishment




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UK universities braced for reform when crisis ends

Government warns of ‘restructuring’ in return for rescue funding




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Paint it Black: new art by Ronnie Wood

What The Rolling Stones rocker did next




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BingeWatch: Rick and Morty is space comedy fuelled by booze and snark

With new episodes launching today, now is the perfect time to revel in the cruel humour of the hit cartoon




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Painting crowds, or the lack of them, from Monet to Fordjour

Until the early 20th century, a mass of figures often dominated works but Modernism preferred emptiness




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Lebanon’s sovereign default leaves creditors facing big losses

London-based Ashmore bet heavily on the country’s short-term debt




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Arab world’s middle-income nations face tough coronavirus choices

Countries from Jordan to Egypt will struggle to mitigate the pandemic’s economic impact




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Dubai vows to support Emirates as global airlines race for cash

Government to inject equity into state-owned carrier in latest intervention in aviation sector




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NMC expects administration as it fails to win creditors’ backing 

Former FTSE 100 group has been in turmoil over its financial arrangements for months 




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State-backed SME lending picks up pace too late for many

Third of UK small businesses reported so low on cash they cannot survive longer than 2 more weeks




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Live Q&A: ‘Bounce back loans’ for small businesses

Your chance to grill FT experts on the government’s rescue measures for small businesses




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Live Q&A: Will you apply for a Bounce Back Loan?

Government-backed scheme designed to help smaller UK firms launches on Monday




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UK pledges extra funds for businesses that share office space

Government to provide £617m to plug gaps in rescue package based on business rates system




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More than 100,000 apply for ‘bounce back’ loans

Requests from small businesses estimated at £3.3bn as banks open for coronavirus support




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Éric Rohmer at 100: an antidote to hyperactive screen media

The French director’s centenary is celebrated with a new box set of his subdued, subtle films




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Sleaze and racism in Netflix’s Hollywood take shine off ‘golden age’

New period drama about an aspiring actor pulls back the curtain on postwar Tinseltown




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Irrfan Khan, actor, 1967-2020

A formidable film actor in an industry in thrall to its movie stars




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Becoming — a Netflix documentary on Michelle Obama and her legacy

There are potent moments here amid the stage-managed gloss




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Troubled contractor Interserve axes role of chief executive

Debbie White to step down as group strengthens leadership of its three divisions




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World’s largest caterer Compass scales back on signs of global weakness

Group to shrink operations in Europe, Japan, and Brazil




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Activist fund set to double stake in banknote maker De La Rue

Crystal Amber’s move shows sign of confidence in struggling UK group




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Eddie Stobart investors back private equity rescue

Dbay’s offer for haulage group wins ‘overwhelming’ majority of votes




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Life BC and AC

The virus has pulled back a curtain on how fragile and financialised our economy is




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Brazil pension and tax reforms back on track, says Meirelles

Social security overhaul is key part of plan to rein in budget deficit




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Election test for Macri’s promise to make Argentina ‘normal’ again

Legislative poll will be a referendum on the reformist president




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Google faces local antitrust investigation in US




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Google faces local antitrust investigation in US

Missouri raises competition and privacy questions in company’s home market




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Google faces sustained regulatory attack from emboldened critics

Political mood in US has shifted against big tech companies




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Introducing: The Rachman Review

Life in Europe's coronavirus hotspots: Foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman discusses how the coronavirus epidemic has been handled in Italy and Spain with the local FT correspondents, Miles Johnson in Rome and Daniel Dombey in Madrid. How are citizens reacting to the lockdown and what will be the long-term political and economic impact?

 

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