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  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Private equity
    Private equity’s new bet on sport: buy the league

    Firms are looking beyond clubs to governing bodies and competitions but the investments risk alienating fans

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    EU immigration
    EU immigration: Frontex faces scrutiny over its growing role

    The European bloc’s first uniformed armed force faces allegations of helping to send migrants back to countries such as Turkey

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Joe Biden
    Joe Biden’s challenge: big, early victories in a toxic political climate

    Having won by projecting competence and renewal, the new president has a narrow window to get things done

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Working from home
    Where’s the spark? How lockdown caused a creativity crisis

    With remote working taking a toll on collaboration, managers are brainstorming ways to ensure the flow of new ideas

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Agriculture
    Big Meat: facing up to the demands for sustainability

    Consumers and investors are looking at the environmental damage the industry has done and calling for change

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Social Media
    Donald Trump, Twitter and the messy fight over free speech

    The decision to ban the president has demonstrated the unaccountable power of the big social media companies

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Travel & leisure industry
    Business travel: ‘We don’t know how many people will choose to fly’

    The sector lost an estimated $710bn of revenue in the pandemic. Will hotels and airlines ever claw that back?

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    German politics
    After Merkel: the battle for the soul of the Christian Democratic Union

    Under the chancellor the party turned into a well oiled election-winning machine but lost some of its identity

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Chinese business & finance
    Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping: the future of private business in China

    The crackdown on Alibaba and Ant Group amounts to an unprecedented squeeze on a ubiquitous ecommerce empire

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    Shell case puts spotlight on energy groups’ role in climate change

    If successful, the legal action in the Netherlands could force companies to accelerate the shift to cleaner fuels 

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Artificial intelligence
    Algorithms and the pandemic

    Backlash grows over governments’ use of automated decision making tools

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    US Capitol attack
    ‘A coup d’état attempted by Trump’: America’s failed insurrection

    The riot at the Capitol followed years of escalating rightwing violence and an obsession with overturning the election result

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Norges Bank Investment Management
    From hedge fund to sovereign wealth: Norway’s investment chief eyes active approach

    If new chief executive Nicolai Tangen tries to pick more stocks, he could encourage greater political interference

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Racial equality
    Race relations: the police battle to regain trust among black Britons

    Anger in African-Caribbean communities over discriminatory tactics and the use of excessive force has risen in the past year

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    German politics
    ‘We need a real policy for China’: Germany ponders post-Merkel shift

    The country will be key to whether Europe works more with the US to defend democracy or seeks to engage Beijing

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Old tensions still alive in Bosnia 25 years after Dayton

    The 1995 peace deal was supposed to be a catalyst to repair relations but instead it has cemented ethnic divides, say critics

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    Venezuela
    Venezuela: Maduro strengthens his grip on power

    After failed efforts to dislodge the regime, the country will present Joe Biden with one of his biggest diplomatic challenges

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    US midterm elections
    Will Trumpism outlast Trump?

    With the president still claiming a stolen election, the 2024 Republican field is filled with contenders hoping to inherit his mantle

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    UK politics opinion polls
    Underestimating Trump: the US polling industry under fire

    After Joe Biden’s narrower-than-expected victory in some key states forecasters face a harsh reckoning

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Visual journalism
    2020: charts from a year like no other

    Data and graphics were the bedrock for a lot of coronavirus reporting, from transmission rates to the economic fallout

  • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
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    Management: what business learnt in the time of coronavirus

    Most chief executives are preparing for the volatility of 2020 to continue even if the global economy starts to recover

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    Google LLC
    ‘Regulation can get it wrong’: Google’s Sundar Pichai on AI and antitrust

    The Alphabet boss has huge ambitions for innovation but spends much of his time dealing with regulators

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    ESG investing
    The factory by a Tuscan beach and the future of ESG investing

    Some investors who want to assess the environmental record of companies worry about how ratings are compiled

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    US politics & policy
    US energy: ‘the more ambitious Biden tries to be, the more likely he is to fail’

    Elected on a promise of a $2tn green energy plan, the US president-elect’s ambitions could be curtailed by political reality

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    Financial fraud
    ‘A giant bonfire of taxpayers’ money’: fraud and the UK pandemic loan scheme

    The bounce back plan offered a lifeline to struggling companies. But more than half the £43bn lent so far could be lost

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