Behaviour of Brazil’s ‘walking crisis’ president sparks backlash among one-time allies

Maduro regime rejects latest Washington plan despite fears of humanitarian catastrophe from Covid-19

The need for an effective fight against coronavirus trumps other considerations

Oil price collapse and crumbling health system put Latin American nation at risk

President acts as though Latin America’s second-largest economy is immune to pandemic

Office providers warn chancellor that companies will go bankrupt without relief

Company must not bet the bank on expansion; estate agents have nowhere to go

Office group founder files lawsuit over largest investor’s decision to pull out of $3bn tender offer

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

Health and beauty chain cites ‘unprecedented decline’ in footfall

An occupied home has utility no empty shop can match

Before the world went into lockdown, Rebecca Watson found herself in a very different kind of confinement

Landlords reject call for 50% reduction, saying hotel group is using Covid-19 crisis to cut costs

Owner of some of UK’s biggest shopping malls still faces uphill struggle

Some leases prohibit doing business — plus what to do when coronavirus halts completion of a sale

Business ease in adapting to lockdowns changes attitudes to remote set-ups

Pandemic puts more pressure on Masayoshi Son’s bet on beleaguered WeWork

My buyer asked to delay due to Covid-19 and now I understand I need to pay capital gains tax within 30 days of sale

Global property portals report big increases in Chinese inquiries

Impact of pandemic has halted nearly 400,000 housing transactions

A pledge to roll back the Beeching cuts has rekindled a strange national obsession

Will Britain’s election be decided in the Labour heartlands? Matthew Engel reports

Train travel in the UK now combines the worst features of capitalism and socialism

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

The holder of this title until now would, for me, have been Muhammad Ali

The pursuit of novelty is leading to ever-shorter forms of the game

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

National identity matters less in an age of globalised sport

Recent books by Matthew Engel, Edward Luce and Anne-Marie Slaughter

Doyen of radio cricket commentary will hang up his microphone in September

An entertaining inquiry into the relentless advance of American expressions among the British

Matthew Engel tours Middle England in search of the root of voter disillusionment

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

A celebrated journalist’s guide to crisp, accurate expression is full of sound advice

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

With an hour of season to go, three of the nine teams were all in with a chance of winning

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

Commentators have forsworn understatement

In Rio, records will fall and reputations will be made. But are the Olympics losing their ability to inspire?

Golfers need no reminding of their fallibility, especially on the back nine at Augusta

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

In the resort where winter tourism began, warm weather forced the cancellation of the White Turf horse race

One of the remotest islands on earth is getting an airport — and that could change everything

Mourinho in Norfolk, Tyson v Fury, and mandatory drug-taking at the Olympics

Boxer’s ideas don’t have to make sense — he just has to hit people

Group has halted work at number of mines due to pandemic

Prime minister escalates dispute over Canada-listed group’s licence

London-listed explorer hires Citi for fundraising and advice as rivals eye acquisitions

Lusaka ups ante in dispute over shuttered copper mine

Main non-China producer says it may need public funds to weather coronavirus downturn