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PPE cottage industry comes to health workers’ rescue

Grassroots manufacturers overcome lack of machinery, materials and supply chain experience




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Small businesses locked out of government grant scheme

English companies with shared offices excluded from coronavirus rescue package




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How Covid-19 is escalating problem debt

Threat of redundancies and business failures means higher earners need help with their finances




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Why only a reverse bail-in can save the economy now

In 2008, it was decided an over-leveraged banking system must be bailed in by the private sector. Post lock-down the exact opposite is true.




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UK pledges extra funds for businesses that share office space

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




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Sleaze and racism in Netflix’s Hollywood take shine off ‘golden age’

New period drama about an aspiring actor pulls back the curtain on postwar Tinseltown




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Rising High — a raucous German comedy of real estate fraud

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




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The Assistant — a coldly furious indictment of a film mogul monster

Kitty Green’s response to the Harvey Weinstein case unfolds with muted rage




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Ema is a humdinger of a film from Chilean director Pablo Larraín

A woman’s life unravels spectacularly in this wildly original movie




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Mr Klein — Joseph Losey’s lost classic re-emerges

Alain Delon stars in this existential thriller, set in Nazi-occupied Paris




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How is culture adapting to quarantine?

Plus: the FT's film critic on what to watch now




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Which films have you been watching?

Join FT film critic Danny Leigh for a live chat on Friday May 1 at 12pm and 5pm UK time




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David Stratton’s Stories of Australian Cinema is a riveting overview

The much-loved film critic traces how the nation’s film industry found its voice in a three-part series on BBC4




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Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy is a zippy film about the ethno-gastronomer

Elizabeth Carroll’s documentary spotlights Kennedy as celebrity cook and social historian




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The Whistlers — an impish thriller of double-crossing and tables turned

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




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Becoming — a Netflix documentary on Michelle Obama and her legacy

There are potent moments here amid the stage-managed gloss




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Infinite Football — documentary unveils a blueprint for a football revolution

Corneliu Porumboiu’s film introduces us to a man with big ideas for the beautiful game




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Richard Dreyfuss plays an elderly man with his head in the stars in Astronaut

Shelagh McLeod’s film is a small, warm drama of space and family




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New British Film Institute boss Ben Roberts on streaming and cinemas after lockdown

In an exclusive first interview, the CEO talks about his love of scary movies, video games and why the BFI should be like ‘a nerdy friend’




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Standards in  jails run by Carillion criticised

GFSL said liquidated company’s services were ‘unacceptable’




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De La Rue’s past failings tear up a £500m business

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




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AI sensors keep refineries ticking along

Advanced equipment can detect problems 75 days before they occur




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Troubled contractor Interserve axes role of chief executive

Debbie White to step down as group strengthens leadership of its three divisions




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Former boss Tinkler plans £75m Eddie Stobart rescue

UK logistics group at risk of collapse without new cash to support its operations




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Royal Mail warning on UK business triggers share slide

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




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De La Rue shares plunge on warning about its future

UK group points to ‘material uncertainty’ if a turnround plan does not tackle debt pile




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Activist fund set to double stake in banknote maker De La Rue

Crystal Amber’s move shows sign of confidence in struggling UK group




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Eddie Stobart investors back private equity rescue

Dbay’s offer for haulage group wins ‘overwhelming’ majority of votes




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Andrew Tinkler dumps Stobart stake

Former CEO and fifth-largest shareholder severs ties with group that sacked him




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UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2020

The consultancies most recommended by clients and peers, rated by sector and specialism. Plus: millennial professionals’ search for meaning; weighing consultants’ worth; the conflict of interest debate; a call for courage on diversity; HS2 blurs consultancy lines; Brexit and fees




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Terra Firma’s Guy throws Hands in air like he really does care

Private equity epiphany; Royal Mail; CEO succession at HSBC




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In barmy world of fintech, $5.5bn for Revolut is not so bonkers

Neobank’s funding round sets new valuation parameters; De La Rue battles to last a decade




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An ebbing tide exposes a rising number of corporate bloopers

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




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Donald Trump’s troubling coronavirus address

President’s travel ban will not calm markets or address the threat facing America




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The coronavirus: my part in its downfall

Here is the role that I intend to play in bringing the global pandemic to an end




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The crushing burden on Mnuchin’s shoulders

Treasury secretary enters war against Covid-19 with handicaps, but he’s all America has got




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The wrong kind of American exceptionalism

Donald Trump’s ambivalence on coronavirus threatens both the US and its global power




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Loneliness during the American epidemic

Even before the coronavirus outbreak, many people found isolation a normal way of living




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Getting used to a groundhog day epidemic

We need to get acclimatised to repetition. Many of us have not internalised the arduous road ahead




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The US is failing the test of the century

A new wave and second lockdown would be a bigger hit to wealth than a cautious return to work, but Donald Trump is refusing to listen




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Digging Joe Biden out of his basement 

Coronavirus is depriving the former vice-president of a real campaign




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UK watchdog warns US over rules for failing banks

FCA chief says regulators will lose faith in how US handles crises if regime changes




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Domination dies hard in technology markets

Microsoft lost its antitrust suit, blew big chances yet grows on




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New realities confront a maturing internet

A two-decade old law is a poor fit with the digital world of today




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Election test for Macri’s promise to make Argentina ‘normal’ again

Legislative poll will be a referendum on the reformist president




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The Whistleblowers: reporting wrongdoing at US banks

When employees reveal wrongdoing, instead of being rewarded they are often punished




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Google faces local antitrust investigation in US




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Google faces local antitrust investigation in US

Missouri raises competition and privacy questions in company’s home market




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Google faces sustained regulatory attack from emboldened critics

Political mood in US has shifted against big tech companies




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Deutsche Bank fined $70m in US rate-rigging probe

Penalty for manipulation of Isdafix benchmark is German group’s latest American setback