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Give your gardener feedback and your nanny a bonus

Put as much effort into being a good employer at home as at work




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Handbags to the fore in search for the ‘tailor-made’

Artisans provide antidote to today’s frenzied lifestyle




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Millennial v Boomer: young workers and EU

Debate: One says youthful staff want to remain in the EU, the other fears apathy




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How to take down walls and build a strategic network

Why women must conquer their fear of networking and do it anyway




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Iceland football boss — part-time dentist

Adding a sporting dimension to your career can be therapeutic




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Jancis Robinson’s top 20 sweet and strong wines for Christmas

From Muscat to Madeira, the best — and best-value — tipples for the festive season




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Bordeaux’s charming – and charmless – 2010s

‘These long-lived wines need time in bottle to soften and become truly appealing; the best examples can continue to improve for decades’




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The things I love about Argentine wine — and the one I hate

The country’s new-wave wine producers have different ideas about what an Argentine Malbec should be




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Jancis Robinson on Anderson Valley, California

It was only when champagne producer Louis Roederer arrived in the early 1980s that this hippy hideout was put on the international wine map




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The CIA, the FBI and the myth of America’s Deep State

The agencies don’t plot presidential coups — but few heroes emerge in David Rohde’s study ‘In Deep’




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Demographics, economy and death tolls boost Biden in polls

Data give snapshot of shifting battlegrounds ahead of November’s presidential election




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Enter the Aardvark — a secret gay lover. And taxidermy

Can Jessica Anthony’s parody nail the challenge of satirising US political life?




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The future of books — rise in digital publishing and social media

How is the crisis changing our reading habits and accelerating the industry’s digital revolution?




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Comcast rides broadband wave during lockdown

US cable company enjoys rising demand for high-speed internet but movie business suffers




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Why Silicon Valley is surviving the pandemic ad crash

Facebook and Google show resilience through the crisis thanks to uptick in ‘direct response’ ads




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Covid-19 and consolidation

Silver Lake’s Jio stake, Amazon VP quits in protest, new MacBook Pro




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Netflix plans to reopen production on shows and films

Sanitiser and masks appear on sets in South Korea, Japan and Iceland after shooting restarts




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HMRC suspends some tax investigations due to pandemic

Tax authority switches focus to supporting businesses and individuals via job retention scheme 




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Thousands could now be eligible for child benefit payments

Parents who haven’t historically claimed could now do so due to lost income




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Company car users on furlough can save thousands of pounds

Tax bills can be reduced by handing back a vehicle to an employer




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Six ways to manage money — and not fall out with your partner

Couples share how they divide their incomes and outgoings — and joint accounts are falling out of favour




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Could Alexa, Siri and Google make us smarter savers?

Smart speakers don’t yet have the skills to




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Should we keep calm and carry on investing? 

Money worries have taken on a new meaning with the market woes and the Budget next week




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Chrystia Freeland: ‘We liberals have had a rude awakening’

Canada’s deputy PM on moving from the ‘snark’ of journalism to the ‘smarm’ of politics




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Yan Lianke: ‘Propaganda is a nuclear bomb’

The Chinese novelist on life under censorship — and why he is still a ‘peasant’ at heart




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Stephanie Kelton: ‘They’re going to have massive deficits. And it’s fine’

The economist has long argued that governments should spend whatever it takes. Has her time now come?




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Mine closures bolster metals prices as demand collapses

Supply disruptions expected to increase as governments impose lockdowns 




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Revising Ireland’s Easter Rising

How has modern Ireland changed the way it views the events that took place in Dublin 100 years ago?




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The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver review — from A to Z and back again

A fascinatingly detailed history one of the world’s great scholarly projects




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Are we seeing the strange, lingering death of Labour England?

In Stoke-on-Trent, Matthew Engel finds a party struggling to answer the simplest questions




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All work and no play? The new ‘uni’ experience

Academics and students on campus life in the era of ‘knowledge corporations’




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Johanna Konta and the sporting citizens of nowhere

National identity matters less in an age of globalised sport




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The Last Wolf by Robert Winder — island stories

Geography is destiny in this historical meditation on the peculiarities of the English




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England face Ashes test after World Cup glory

Amity between old adversaries almost certain to crumble once first ball is bowled




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Superdrug becomes latest retailer to slash rent payments to landlords

Health and beauty chain cites ‘unprecedented decline’ in footfall




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Travelodge asks landlords to take £146m rent hit

Company says it will be ‘several years’ before revenues return to 2019 levels




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Pandemic forces Brazil’s ‘Chicago boys’ to revise reform plans

Finance minister Paulo Guedes has had his liberal economic agenda sidelined by emergency measures




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Venezuelans hit hard by cash crisis and hyper-inflation

Maduro’s economic rescue plan offers little hope to people struggling to get by 




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Election: Brexit party MEPs defect and back Conservative party — as it happened

Live coverage of the UK election campaign.

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Election: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn face off in final TV debate — as it happened

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn spar in a televised debate just six days before the general election.

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General election 2019: Boris Johnson declares ‘powerful mandate to get Brexit done’ — as it happened

The pound has soared more than 2 per cent in its biggest rise since 2017 after an exit poll has projected a strong victory for Boris Johnson’s Conservative party.

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UK election results: Boris Johnson says he has ‘stonking mandate’ on Brexit — as it happened

The Conservatives secure the biggest majority in parliament since Margaret Thatcher with Labour's 'red wall' crumbling; stocks in London surge while the pound has soared more than 2 per cent in its sharpest rally in nearly three years

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Amundi and Janus Henderson suffer market-induced asset falls

Despite 8% drop in assets, French fund manager reports stronger performance than listed rivals




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Poland postpones presidential vote after bid to defy pandemic fails

With its candidate favourite to win, Law and Justice party was insisting poll should go ahead on May 10




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Paris and The Hague say EU must toughen enforcement of green trade

Dutch and French trade ministers say Covid-19 has focused minds on global trade and climate change




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Denmark and Norway announce further loosening of lockdown

Cafés, restaurants and secondary schools to reopen in phased easing of restrictions




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UK and Irish help for Trump Organization probed by Democrats

The US president holds ownership interests in golf resorts in Scotland and Ireland




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AB InBev warns of ‘materially worse’ second quarter due to pandemic

Maker of Budweiser and Corona to cut costs by renegotiating contracts such as sponsorship deals




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Neiman Marcus and the demise of the US department store

The coronavirus outbreak has accelerated the decline of America’s favourite shopping institution




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Kamala Harris and the race for the Democratic presidential nomination

The race for the US Democratic presidential nomination is hotting up with a huge field of 23 candidates all hoping run against Donald Trump in 2020.  Courtney Weaver has focused in on one of the candidates, Kamala Harris, and she talks to Neville Hawcock about how the campaign for the Democratic nomination is shaping up. Read Courtney's article here


Contributors: Josh Noble, weekend news editor, Neville Hawcock, acting deputy editor, FT Weekend Magazine, and Courtney Weaver, Washington correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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