The Chinese novelist on life under censorship — and why he is still a ‘peasant’ at heart

As chief executive of 23andMe, she holds the key to a vast genetic database. What will she do with it?

The economist has long argued that governments should spend whatever it takes. Has her time now come?

Supply disruptions expected to increase as governments impose lockdowns 

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

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

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

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

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

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

National identity matters less in an age of globalised sport

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Health and beauty chain cites ‘unprecedented decline’ in footfall

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

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

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

The need for an effective fight against coronavirus trumps other considerations

Work dries up under lockdown but returning home could be more perilous than staying put

Finance minister Paulo Guedes has had his liberal economic agenda sidelined by emergency measures

Tareck El-Aissami has little experience — and a $10m US bounty on his head

David Enrich’s salutary tale of Deutsche Bank’s overreaching ambitions

Maduro’s economic rescue plan offers little hope to people struggling to get by 

About 85 per cent of voters think the country is heading in the wrong direction

Guido Sandleris says it is ‘too soon’ to declare that stability has returned to peso

Creditor group says restrictions on trading could be forcing bonds into ‘rogue’ hands

Reimposition of currency controls is admission of defeat by president

Jeremy Corbyn unveils party's ‘most radical’ plans in decades, Tories backtrack on national insurance pledge while pressure on public finances increases

The Brexit party and the Welsh Plaid Cymru reveal their policies; Corbyn and McDonnell defend tax plans; Tories propose stamp duty rise for foreign buyers; while UK figures show more gloomy outlook

Jeremy Corbyn defends party's processes for dealing with racism after Ephraim Mirvis's criticism. Conservatives put opposition to independence at heart of Scottish campaign. Sterling slips as Labour makes inroads on Tories' polling lead.

Jeremy Corbyn unveiled 451 pages of leaked documents, which he claimed show details of trade talks between the UK and US. The Labour leader said the discussions included Washington's demand for providing access to the NHS for American healthcare companies.

Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered a "credible prospectus" for government in the election, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said this morning, in a damning assessment that highlighted the gulf between different political visions for Britain.

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Live coverage of the UK election campaign.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn spar in a televised debate just six days before the general election.

Live coverage of the UK election campaign.

The pound has soared more than 2 per cent in its biggest rise since 2017 after an exit poll has projected a strong victory for Boris Johnson’s Conservative party.

The Conservatives secure the biggest majority in parliament since Margaret Thatcher with Labour's 'red wall' crumbling; stocks in London surge while the pound has soared more than 2 per cent in its sharpest rally in nearly three years

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Tokyo’s Topix dropped 2.5% at the open, taking the benchmark index down more than 30% for the year. The move followed S&P 500 index's collapse of 12 per cent on Monday, marking the biggest one-day fall since the crash of October 1987.

Heavy redemptions during coronavirus-induced sell-off  spark concerns

LGIM to hold businesses to account for their stakeholder responsibilities during pandemic 

Stanhope co-founder and Worms family heir says Warren Buffett and 1848 inspired his new venture

European Commission and MEPs warn regulator over watering down Priips performance scenarios decried as misleading

UBS drops to second spot while Invesco slips to third in Z-Ben analysis of investment market