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OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises National Contact Point Peer Reviews: France

Governments adhering to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are required to set up a National Contact Point that functions in a visible, accessible, transparent and accountable manner. This report contains a peer review of the French NCP, mapping its strengths and accomplishments and also identifying opportunities for improvement.




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OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises National Contact Point Peer Reviews: Germany

Governments adhering to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are required to set up a National Contact Point (NCP) that functions in a visible, accessible, transparent and accountable manner. This report contains a peer review of the German NCP, mapping its strengths and accomplishments and also identifying opportunities for improvement.




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ZmURL customizes Zoom link previews with images & event sites

Sick of sharing those generic Zoom video call invites that all look the same? Wish your Zoom link preview’s headline and image actually described your meeting? Want to protect your Zoom calls from trolls by making attendees RSVP to get your link? ZmURL.com has you covered. Launching today, ZmURL is a free tool that lets […]




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JAN MOIR reviews Belgravia, the new period drama from the creator of Downton Abbey 

JAN MOIR: If only victualler's daughter Sophia Trenchard (Emily Reid) and posho Lord Edmund Bellasis (Jeremy Neumark Jones) had been in control of their lust, we wouldn't be here at all.




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The Points Guy UK reviews FOUR classes on a Singapore Airlines A380 at the same time

Singapore Airlines is one of the most lauded carriers in the world, with more awards than you can shake a designer amenity kit at. But the scores from these experts are far from perfect...




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Rugby World Cup 2019 quarter-final previews: Can Japan's fairytale run continue?

The Rugby World Cup kicked off four weeks ago today and now, via 50 pool stage matches, we are down to eight teams. Sportsmail tells you all need to know about the quarter-finals.




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Rebel Wilson cuts a chic figure while out in Aspen... following bad reviews on her new movie Cats

Her latest movie Cats isn't getting the glowing reviews it was aimed to get. But Rebel Wilson - who plays Jennyanydots in the new musical - appears to be brushing it off after being spotted out .




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Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Andrew Manze album reviews: A real curate's egg and an offer of favourites

Sheku Kanneh-Mason's new album, his second for Decca, is a real curate's egg.




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Beethoven box sets reviews: Which anniversary bumper box hits all the high notes?  

For many classical music lovers, myself included, Beethoven is the greatest. Even for those who don't rate him the best, it's hard to imagine any but the cloth-eared failing to rank him with Bach and Mozart.




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Craig Brown reviews The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson which goes behind the scenes of Chinatown

The most frequently quoted observation about Hollywood is the simplest, and possibly also the truest. 'In Hollywood,' said screenwriter William Goldman, 'no one knows anything.'




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Craig Brown reviews a book examining the golden age of luxury travel

Ah, the Golden Age of Travel! This is not a book to be read while you are standing cooped-up on a crowded staircase for ten minutes as part of Ryanair's 'Priority Boarding'




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Jim Shelley reviews The Voice

Jordan James was so cringe-worthy, his audition on Saturday would have been genius if he were a character created by Steve Coogan, Simon Brodkin, or Ricky Gervais, which I still think he might be.




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The Voice UK: Jim Shelley reviews

We had officially reached the dregs on The Voice UK. A horrifying concept I know, not to say hard to picture considering how bad the ‘good’ contestants sound.




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At last, Louis finds his true direction! ADRIAN THRILLS reviews Louis Tomlinson's debut album Walls 

ADRIAN THRILLS: When he was singing with One Direction, Louis Tomlinson was the British boy-next-door. Walls generally stays faithful to the indie rock that shaped his formative years.




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BRIAN VINER reviews Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

BRIAN VINER: I attended a screening on Tuesday in the company of what felt like a thousand others who look at life mainly by the glow of a lightsaber.




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JULIA LAWRENCE reviews Madonna at the London Palladium 

JULIA LAWRENCE: On Wednesday night at London's Palladium, Madonna remembered her manners. And painful hip and knee be damned, she dazzled, the absolute trouper she is.




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A hair-raising adventure through musical snobbery: BRIAN VINER reviews Trolls World Tour 

BRIAN VINER: There's no snobbery quite like music snobbery. Dare to profess an admiration for the work of Phil Collins or Bono and in some circles you will be treated like a guttersnipe.




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Something strange is brewing in Brazil... and it's not coffee: BRIAN VINER reviews Bacurau

The pick of this week's homestreaming options is a pair of foreign-language films. The strange but compelling Bacurau, plunging us into the hinterlands of Brazil.




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BRIAN VINER reviews dystopian future films which will go out of fashion after Covid-19

BRIAN VINER: From what I hear, film producers, along with book publishers, are currently telling writers not to bother pitching stories about dystopian futures or horrible hidden predators.




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Critics give mixed reviews to Justin Bieber's album Changes which celebrates love for wife Hailey

What critics can agree on is that the new music reflects the 25-year-old Canadian pop star's joy at being married to Hailey Baldwin and the bliss of life as a newlywed.




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Cats reviews are in! The film is called both wonderful and wild

One Cats critic tweeted Tuesday about the Tom Hooper movie starring Taylor Swift out Friday: 'Everything that seemed weird in the trailers just melts away when you're watching the film.'




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The Relationtrip is receiving buzz worthy reviews at SXSW

An indie road trip romance that has stood out of the crowd as a weird and wonderful film that has set tongues wagging




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Craig Brown reviews Right Or Wrong: The Memoir Of Lord Bell: Wages of spin: Did legendary adman Tom Bell really swear in front of Mrs Thatcher and why does he admit he worked for Pinochet, but not Oscar Pistorius?

The anomaly at the heart of Right Or Wrong: The Memoir Of Lord Bell: half the time, Bell is bragging about preferring lying to telling the truth. The other half, he is standing on his high horse. 




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Tom Parker Bowles reviews Gloria in Shoreditch

Gloria, a raucously flamboyant Shoreditch trattoria, doesn’t do things by halves. Like a kitsch explosion in a Dolce & Gabbana factory




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Craig Brown reviews a book on women during the Sixties

The renowned social historian Virginia Nicholson interviewed 40 veterans of the Swinging Sixties for her latest book, How Was It For You? One of them now walks with the aid of a Zimmer frame




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Olly Smith reviews some alternatives to booze

Sound the booze alarm! I fear the surge in no- and low-alcohol tipples may prove the garlic to my thirsty vampire




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Ben Okri, Nicolás Giacobone and Kate Furnivall: This week's best new fiction reviews

Okri is always good company and these 20-odd tales showcase his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination.




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Rob Waugh reviews Amazon's Echo Studio

Echo Studio is Amazon's latest attempt at a 'hi-fi' Echo device, and it's certainly a burly piece of kit




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Rob Waugh reviews the Rayvolt Cruzer V3  

I'm mature enough to admit that, sometimes, the whole point of a gadget is the attention you get from using it in public.




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Sportsmail reviews the 2019 Formula One season

World champion Lewis Hamilton claimed his 11th win of the season in Formula One's Abu Dhabi finale on Sunday after a monumental campaign of racing.




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JAN MOIR reviews Belgravia, the new period drama from the creator of Downton Abbey 

JAN MOIR: If only victualler's daughter Sophia Trenchard (Emily Reid) and posho Lord Edmund Bellasis (Jeremy Neumark Jones) had been in control of their lust, we wouldn't be here at all.




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BA reviews planes carrying excess fuel after BBC Panorama revelations it drives up CO2 emissions

It is reported that British Airways churned out an extra 18,000 tonnes of CO2 last year by carrying extra fuel on its aircraft in an industry-wide practice known as 'fuel tankering'.




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Points Guy UK reviews economy on BA, Virgin, American, United and Norwegian between NYC and London

The fliers, who all work for The Points Guy UK, boarded flights operated by British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines, American Airlines and Norwegian - and filmed their experiences.




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Moses whips up a storm: PATRICK MARMION reviews The Prince of Egypt 

PATRICK MARMION: With monumental staging evoking the Valley of the Kings, and seismic set-piece belters, this story of Moses and Egyptian pharaoh Ramses has hyperbole with G-force.




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Tourism Australia's new $38million campaign led by Chris Hemsworth receives mixed reviews 

The $38million new marketing campaign - which urges tourists around the globe to 'Come Live our Philausophy' - was unveiled on Wednesday.




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Piers Morgan reviews his most memorable encounters of 2019

It's been another insane year, as Britain's prolonged collective Brexit dementia reduced us all to a quarrelling, squabbling, sneering rabble of self-righteous lunatics




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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood lauded as a 'masterpiece' in first rave reviews

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has been met with rave first reviews following its Los Angeles premiere on Monday night and world debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May.




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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Gavin and Stacey Christmas special 

So it meant all the more when burly Nessa, the seafront tattoo artist with forearms like glazed hams and the scowl of Angela Merkel in a bad mood, finally spoke her heart in Gavin And Stacey (BBC1).




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Ford Kuga 2.0 TDCi 163PS: Ray Massey reviews the latest Ford

The Ford Kuga 2.0 TDCi 163PS has a distinctive, yet handsome, contemporary, family-friendly crossover. Smart without being too flash.




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Chris Evans reviews Seat Ibiza Connect 1.2 TSI: Everything about the new Ibiza is – well – just fine. But, oh, for a flash of originality and inspiration amid the bland efficiency

Sure, there’s good work in evidence but it’s all so derivative, so Audi, so VW, so keep it safe, so keep it in the family. Its crisp sharp lines doing nothing more than echoing those of the Audi A3 and VW Polo.




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Chris Evans reviews Piaggio MP3 500 Sport: Fast, nimble, stable – and it scythes through rush-hour traffic

Oh, and by all means take a friend – there’s loads of room for a pillion and there are grab handles at the rear of the seat. Again, no additional qualification is required to carry a passenger.




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The Daily Mail reviews 1,000 days of incompetence since the Brexit referendum

Exactly 1,000 days ago today, the British electorate went to the ballot box for the EU referendum. How long ago it now seems! Today the dream, if not dead, is on life support.




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The Inspector reviews Beaverbrook hotel in Surrey

The Inspector checks into Beaverbrook in Surrey, whose past guests include Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Rudyard Kipling and Ian Fleming. But would they have had to wait 20 minutes for their wine?




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The Inspector reviews Mannings Hotel in Truro, Cornwall

Mannings in Truro has 30 rooms and nine apartments fronting a car park. The Inspector checked into an apartment which he found to be chilly and scented with the 'whiff of old shoes'.




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Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller do the monster mash: PATRICK MARMION reviews Frankenstein

Duelling is illegal in Britain, but that didn't stop Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller going musket to musket in 2011. PATRICK MARMION reviews the National Theatre performance.




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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Ignorance is bliss in the world of 'yoof' YouTubers

An Ofcom report last October revealed that more than half of young Britons aged 16-24 did not watch a single minute of any BBC programme in the preceding week - neither on live TV nor on catch-up.




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Wimbledon 2013: Andy Murray's former coach Brad Gilbert previews his semi-final against Jerzy Janowicz

The first thing Andy must do is forget the Verdasco match: it’s ancient history. Tennis is a problem-solving game and Andy successfully solved the problem. What was it? Maybe he played a little too defensively in the first two sets and, not unreasonably, expected the Spaniard to miss more than he did.




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Architect, 41, struck off for fake one-star Google reviews of companies run by rivals and exes

Andrew Guy, 41, from Hampshire, was struck off by the Architects Registration Board after he targeted eight firms with negative reviews, including two run by women he had dated.




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Small UK firms are losing sales to dodgy foreign rivals who are targeting shoppers with fake reviews

The Competition and Markets Authority has sounded the alarm over the problem as online reviews influence an estimated £23 billion of transactions a year in the UK alone.




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Chris Hemsworth goes from Marvel hero to killing machine: BRIAN VINER reviews Extraction

Brian Viner reviews the new Netflix film Extraction starring Chris Hemsworth playing a former 'special ops' soldier, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, now working as a freelance troubleshooter.