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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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Infrastructure blamed for UK’s productivity slowdown

Better digital and physical connections could unshackle UK business, economists say




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Wanted: British export and innovation expertise post-Brexit

The UK needs new ideas and skills for expanding sales worldwide




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Michael Edwardes, industrialist, 1930-2019

A forceful challenger of union power at British Leyland




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Scale-ups prioritised in UK productivity drive

Government emphasis on high growth enterprises has intensified, but results are mixed




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Motherless Brooklyn — Edward Norton directs and stars in a bloated crime thriller

The actor plays a detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this 1950s-set film




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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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Federico Fellini at 100 and the myth of realism

Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical




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John Boorman: hits, myths and borrowed tales

The brilliance of the director’s early work reflects western cinema’s genius for refashioning primal stories and pulp fiction




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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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AI in education will help us understand how we think

Robot teachers are the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence




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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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Vatican may ordain married priests in remote areas

Reform continues under Pope Francis with South American summit tackling shortage of clergy




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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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UK universities braced for reform when crisis ends

Government warns of ‘restructuring’ in return for rescue funding




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Art world proceeds with caution as galleries start to reopen

Plus: Sotheby’s lays out risks; Ropac lends space to emerging artists; Cameroon artists fare well at 1-54




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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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The Day the War Ended — poetry for VE Day

Randall Swingler served in the 1939-45 war and went on to publish two postwar collections




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Art inspired by Aboriginal identity and nuclear explosions

Yhonnie Scarce and Judy Watson talk about creating work with seductive surfaces and dark themes




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Dave — US comedy about a bumbling rapper comes to BBC2

The series follows an idiotic yet charming nerd trying to make it big as Lil Dicky




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Simon Godwin: ‘Theatre has lived through plagues before’

The director talks about gender-swaps, fundraising and the future of drama after lockdown




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Lebanese banks shed bonds in ‘prisoner’s dilemma’

$1.2bn eurobond maturing in March falls sharply as local lenders cash out




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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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Pemex/Mexico: slick solution needed

Investors are right to be sceptical of government’s plans to restore oil group’s fortunes




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Brazil’s booming credit markets fan hopes of ‘revolution’

New York listing of XP highlights transition to a new world of lower interest rates




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Saudi Aramco rated ‘underweight’ by Morgan Stanley

Wall Street banks that advised on record IPO snub oil group with tepid ratings




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Saudi Arabia takes £350m shot at Newcastle United

Fans cheer prospect of Ashley exit but obstacles remain to getting deal across line




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NMC Health founder eyes a return to embattled group

77-year-old entrepreneur BR Shetty ‘looking to buy out Emirati partners’




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NMC Health finds evidence of suspected fraud in its finances

Middle East-focused group’s discovery follows revelations over undisclosed debt




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Gulf economies rocked by coronavirus and oil price war

Government revenues plummet as crude prices sink and private sector cuts jobs 




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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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NMC administrators seek to assure UAE medical staff

Hospitals run by the former FTSE 100 company are tackling the coronavirus outbreak




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Coronavirus: Government support for small businesses — Your questions answered

Claer Barrett wants to hear readers’ experiences of accessing business interruption loans




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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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Small businesses locked out of government grant scheme

English companies with shared offices excluded from coronavirus rescue package




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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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Streamed movies to be eligible for 2021 Oscars

Academy makes exemption to rule over screening films in cinemas




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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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Rising High — a raucous German comedy of real estate fraud

Berlin’s property boom is the setting for Cüneyt Kaya’s film




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Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy is a zippy film about the ethno-gastronomer

Elizabeth Carroll’s documentary spotlights Kennedy as celebrity cook and social historian




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The Whistlers — an impish thriller of double-crossing and tables turned

Corneliu Porumboiu’s crime movie is a colourful tribute to noir classics




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Standards in  jails run by Carillion criticised

GFSL said liquidated company’s services were ‘unacceptable’




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Eddie Stobart’s fate rests on private equity rescue deal

Isle of Man-based Dbay Advisors to charge 18% interest on emergency finance if approved




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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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Former boss Tinkler plans £75m Eddie Stobart rescue

UK logistics group at risk of collapse without new cash to support its operations




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Former Eddie Stobart boss tables rival rescue proposal

Andrew Tinkler’s TVFB plans emergency equity raising of up to £70m to cut group’s debt




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Advisers recommended Dbay offer for Eddie Stobart

Lorry company’s board says lenders will only support refinancing through buyout group’s proposal




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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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Donald Trump and the need to lead by example

The president should look to Roman history and Ireland on how to act in a crisis




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Getting used to a groundhog day epidemic

We need to get acclimatised to repetition. Many of us have not internalised the arduous road ahead