UK expected to take gradual approach to lifting restrictions after Monday

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

At least 21,000 more companies failed in March compared with the year before 

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

English companies with shared offices excluded from coronavirus rescue package

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

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

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

Printing group’s polymer banknotes may be hard to rip, but its share price is not

Postal services group says unit could slump to loss next year with revamp ‘behind schedule’

Sloppy housekeeping, soaring debt and spendthrift ways were easier to ignore in a stronger market

Andrew Hill picks his favourites among the 230 notable titles longlisted since 2005 — Join the discussion

Andrew Hill will be answering questions on Monday at 12pm and 5pm

James Timpson has been planning how to operate his stores post-pandemic

EU-funded projects are returning migrants to a dangerous conflict zone, critics say

EU hosts online pledging event but €7.5bn target for vaccines, testing and treatment will only be first step

HC-One says rising costs and lower occupancy rates are putting strain on finances 

Killings in Dera’a province are testing Syrian leader’s alliance with Russia

Downing Street says any changes will be ‘very limited’ to avoid second peak of infections

UK transport company has come under pressure from US activist to sell school bus and transit divisions

Three quarters of leisure operators say margins too thin to support fewer customers, according to survey

Coffee chain lays down plans for 90% of its domestic market cafés to be open by early June

Fears of food shortages as coronavirus forces facilities to shut and US cases top 1m

Largest US meat company forecasts further upheaval in months ahead

Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment, with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your podcasts, including FT.com/behindthemoney.

Mauren Pereira's drapery business was on track for its most financially successful year to date. That was until the coronavirus outbreak reached Virginia. Behind the Money reports on how one small business owner is navigating the current economic crisis. With Brendan Greeley, US economics editor for the Financial Times. 

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Behind the Money is a podcast from the Financial Times that takes listeners inside the business and financial stories of the moment, with reporting from FT journalists around the world. You can find Behind the Money wherever you get your podcasts, including FT.com/behindthemoney.

The Trump administration’s small business bailout programme has been plagued by problems from the start, with complaints that large companies crowded out the kinds of small enterprises and independent contractors it was designed to help. With a fresh round of funding on offer from Washington, we hear from several business owners trying to get their share, as well as the FT’s Laura Noonan who has been reporting on the programme since it launched. 

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Too many big brands have been coasting for too long

The suits, the soft furnishings: a revealing glimpse of our MPs’ style choices

Street style is changing, with baggy shapes and Birkenstocks replacing tailored outfits

Laura Noonan and Lauren Fedor respond to your queries on the state of SBA rescue funds

Over decades the Republican party has reconfigured itself into the party of the white and the South

Is it acceptable for an artist to have his work produced by others? And what are the implications of the artist as businessman on conceptual art as we know it? As a new generation of artists openly declare themselves marketing men, FT arts editor Jan Dalley discusses the business of art with Jackie Wullschlager, FT visual arts critic, and Peter Aspden, FT arts and culture writer.  

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Like it or not, the vibrancy of London’s art scene is due in part to the efforts of marketeers, public relations teams and great coffee shops, says the FT’s arts writer,  

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A forthcoming season on Channel 4 aims to demystify our sexual behaviour – to be ‘open’ and ‘honest’ about a 'normal part of all our lives'. Good luck with that, says the FT’s arts writer  

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Author Mohsin Hamid reads his short story 'Alien invasion in the G.L.A.C.', commissioned by the Financial Times for the new year.  

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Matthew McConaughey’s career revival provides a neat case study of how an actor can wrest back control of his image. It also tells a broader story about our weakness for a certain kind of Acting.  

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The UK’s culture secretary is a ‘Star Trek’ fan who wants the arts to be ‘accessible to everyone’ - while the filmmakers of the defiantly highbrow ‘Life May Be’ remind us that there are merits in other ambitions.  

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By focusing on the personal rather than the political, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski created a quietly subversive masterpiece, Peter Aspden says  

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Peter Aspden on the 'floating song' recorded by Alan Lomax in 1930s Kentucky that went on to be covered by Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan and, of course, The Animals. Credits: Concord Music Group, Marathon Media International, BMI  

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From the unstoppable rise of hip-hop to the 'millennial whoop', what does today's new music sound like? And how has social media changed the relationship between artists and fans?

Harriet Fitch Little, India Ross and Griselda Murray Brown discuss Drake, Cardi B and DJ Khaled - in particular 'Wild Thoughts' ft. Rihanna and Bryson Tiller from 2017, which leans heavily on the melody and mood of Santana's 1999 hit 'Maria Maria', the coming-of-age soundtrack for the oldest cohort of millennials. 

Warning: this podcast contains a live 'millennial whoop'.

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While you polish your CV, go and clean up your virtual existence too

British TV network unable to provide guidance for the rest of 2020 as outlook is ‘uncertain’

Finance minister also says companies cannot pay dividends while receiving government money 

IR35 rules demanding companies check their contractors’ HMRC status are flawed and unfair, say Lords

Deans come out against government plan to cut senior executive courses from workplace training scheme

Whether renting a flat or applying for a loan, you will probably need the help of a homeowner

Readers say they fall between the cracks of government support schemes

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

Office providers warn chancellor that companies will go bankrupt without relief

After reaching intraday record, stocks retreat as new president faces economic challenge