Nearly 300 workers at Northampton’s Greencore factory tested positive for coronavirus.
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The Greencore case also presents lessons for the post-coronavirus economic recovery ahead.
Busy August, quiet September.
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Why UK government would have been wiser to either stick to pure business subsidies or offer its August restaurant scheme seven days a week.
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Whether you like it or not, the globalised world will survive Donald Trump and the pandemic.
Airbnb is gearing up for its long-awaited IPO.
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Like the entire tourism industry, the coronavirus pandemic has had an enormous effect on Airbnb’s finances.
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This celebrated research gives governments a reason to give climate change a low priority, but is based on spurious empirical data.
Victor Orban: Hungary’s prime minister.
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Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
Opportunity knocks.
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“Alexa, why are the likes of Google and Amazon so determined to get us all to buy smart speakers?”
Coffee shops are struggling to survive COVID.
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People are still drinking coffee but where they drink it and how they make it is changing.
After the pandemic, borrowing is set to skyrocket.
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UK government put caps on payday loans five years ago, but they have not gone away – and will be in great demand in the months ahead.
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Apple is now worth more than the entire FTSE 100. It says as much about the UK’s premier stock index as it does about American tech.
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Smaller countries have been competing for tourists for years. New remote work visas suggest they are now competing for citizens.
Most people will return to offices but there’s no rush.
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Most people who worked at home during lockdown want to continue doing so in some respect according to one recent survey.
Ant Group is the payments powerhouse behind Alibaba.
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In the teeth of the crackdown on foreign listed companies, Ant Group has opted for Hong Kong – ultimately to the cost of American savers.
The path to freedom?
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But they may not bring all the economic benefits that their proponents suggest.
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The student loans system is just another source of financial gender inequality.
LSE is one of the six great powers in the world of stock exchanges.
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To overcome the European Commission’s antitrust concerns about a dominant player in European bonds outside the EU, LSE is selling parts of the Italian Stock Exchange.
Two metres apart.
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There’s an important distinction between planned and unplanned communication.
China could be in pole position to develop a vaccine.
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A primer on Sinovac, Sinopharm and CanSino, and their prospects for achieving a world first for coronavirus.
Cannabis use is increasingly mainstream.
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New research explores how using cannabis at different times of the day influenced employee behaviour.
Ralph Little stars as DI Neville Parker in Death in Paradise.
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Decades of bad government policies have come to a head for TV workers unable to earn during the pandemic.
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People have lost all faith in Lukashenko to fix the country’s economy.
There has been massive growth in decentralised finance in the past three years.
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Welcome to the financial revolution that you probably haven’t even heard of.
Creative hub: Channel 4 hopes its presence in Leeds will spur growth in creative industries in the north of England.
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Broadcaster’s move could transform the creative industries in long-neglected parts of the UK.
Busted Benjamin.
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The greenback has taken a pounding in 2020, but it’s about to make a comeback.
Qantas leads the way with ultra-long-haul.
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The airlines that survive this crisis will have to be strategically creative.