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US jobs misery deepens

Unemployment rate soars to 14.7% as 20.5m people lose jobs in April




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Cisco team maintains connections in crises

Responsible Business Award for experts who establish communications in emergencies




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How happier hens mean more eggs — and trees

The discovery that chickens roam further when given more shelter started a green journey




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Co-founders urged to agree ‘pre-nups’ with their partners

Conflicts over strategy and management can kill a company




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Best practice needs the human touch

Resilience in business is rooted in paying heed to staff behaviour




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Those lightbulb moments may suddenly dim

Even big names make poor decisions but we can draw lessons on how to approach change




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Retraining the labour force is the ‘challenge of our times’

Acquiring new skills for a changing employment market is becoming essential




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The rise of the family business constitution

‘Once a document is agreed, people stick to it’




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Infrastructure blamed for UK’s productivity slowdown

Better digital and physical connections could unshackle UK business, economists say




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GKN bid row reveals UK doubts about open markets

Britain is haunted by past industrial decline and the buccaneering raids of the 1980s




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Lex view: GKN v Melrose - why UK must stay open for business

Lex argues that GKN shareholders must accept hostile offer from Melrose




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Wanted: British export and innovation expertise post-Brexit

The UK needs new ideas and skills for expanding sales worldwide




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Tessa Jowell, politician and campaigner, 1947-2018

Moderniser who served on front bench for 18 years championed Olympics and Sure Start




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‘Green’ schemes range from books to bikes

These FT Future 100 UK businesses are building sustainability into their model




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Companies cannot afford to ignore older workers

An ageing population and later retirement means employers will soon have little choice




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John Bloom, entrepreneur, 1931-2019

Washing machine salesman with ‘a touch of genius’ who made millions




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Sheffield shows that there is life after steel

But can smaller industrial towns like Scunthorpe follow its example?




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Michael Edwardes, industrialist, 1930-2019

A forceful challenger of union power at British Leyland




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UK proves to be ‘unicorn’ haven despite Brexit fears

London remains pre-eminent European tech hub, but Paris, Berlin and others are also growing




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Scale-ups prioritised in UK productivity drive

Government emphasis on high growth enterprises has intensified, but results are mixed




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Time marches on for Smith of Derby

Founded in 1856, the company is the survivor of British horology, having absorbed several rivals




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Corporate leaders ride the innovation wave

From heritage to healthcare, via regenerating the city centre, local business is ‘recognising its strengths’




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Derby’s industrious architecture celebrates old and new

Eye-catching locations around the city exemplify its modern ambition




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Start-ups advance to test overseas markets

The city exports more goods and services per job than any other in Britain




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Buddies — a powerful Aids drama from 1985

Arthur J. Bressan’s re-released film has charm and poignancy




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Motherless Brooklyn — Edward Norton directs and stars in a bloated crime thriller

The actor plays a detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this 1950s-set film




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Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville star in cancer drama Ordinary Love

This hospital saga is gripping, well acted and sometimes harrowing




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The Cave is a blistering documentary about a Syrian hospital

The doctor at the heart of this film shows dauntless compassion




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So Long, My Son is an intricately tragic drama set in China’s one-child era

Wang Xiaoshuai’s wonderfully acted film is an epic of love and loss




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Shia LaBeouf’s childhood is re-enacted in the manic tragicomedy Honey Boy

An autobiographical movie that strips bare the actor’s early years




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Citizen K — Mikhail Khodorkovsky documentary paints the dissident as a saint

Alex Gibney’s film portrays its subject as all but flawless. Can that be right?




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The Kingmaker — up close with Imelda Marcos, spendthrift superdiva

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about the Philippines’ former First Lady is comic as well as horrific




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Jumanji: The Next Level — Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black go full video game

Drama and substance are peripheral in a movie that’s as lacking in humanity as you might expect




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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is fun and fantastic (in parts)

There’s swashbuckling and explosions, but Adam Driver is the real star of the ninth and final film in the Skywalker saga




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Style triumphs over content in Long Day’s Journey into Night

Chinese film-maker Bi Gan’s movie slips into a beautiful, bewildering netherworld




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Cats lands on its feet with terrific choreography, Judi Dench, James Corden and Taylor Swift

Tom Hooper’s musical adaptation is weird, wonderful and worryingly erotic




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My 50 years as a film critic

In five decades, Nigel Andrews saw every movie and met all the stars. This is what he learnt




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Five decades, 25 films — Nigel Andrews’ favourites

From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Spirited Away’, the FT’s outgoing film critic picks his top movies




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Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is vibrant, sardonic and out­rageously gorgeous

Saoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts




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La Dolce Vita — a timely return for Fellini’s caustic classic

The director’s satire on consumerist culture shines through in this sparkling new print




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Spies in Disguise — Will Smith and Tom Holland save the planet, if not the movie

Fun though it may be, this collection of out-takes is never quite the sum of its parts




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Best films of 2019

FT film critic Nigel Andrews selects his favourites, from the voluptuous crime-athon ‘The Irishman’ to the harrowing war documentary ‘For Sama’




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Federico Fellini at 100 and the myth of realism

Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical




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Terry Jones, actor, writer and director, 1942-2020

The versatile Monty Python star who sided with the underdog




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From Psycho to Parasite: why the basement is cinema’s scariest location

Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen




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John Boorman: hits, myths and borrowed tales

The brilliance of the director’s early work reflects western cinema’s genius for refashioning primal stories and pulp fiction




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The five best mass-infection movies — and two new odes to endurance

War films 1917 and the upcoming Painted Bird are the latest entries in a sub-genre driven by relentless adversity and survival




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Shopify surges as retailers rush online

Shares at Canadian ecommerce group hit high as revenues jump 47%




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Tech losers can win longer term

Uber cuts 3,700 staff, Libra’s first CEO, Microsoft Surface surfeit




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NHS tracing app in question as experts assess Google-Apple model

Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system