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  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Donald Trump
    ‘Here is Cyrus Vance’s moment’: Donald Trump’s new legal nemesis

    The New York prosecutor is at the helm of a criminal probe that could have dire consequences for the former president and his family

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Britain after Brexit: behind Boris Johnson’s green conversion

    The UK prime minister has outlined a plan to address climate change but he will need to win over Conservative sceptics

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan
    The Abu Dhabi royal at the nexus of UAE business and national security

    The point man to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, Sheikh Tahnoon is redefining links between the state and private sector

  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    Sony Music Entertainment Inc
    Japan’s anime goes global: Sony’s new weapon to take on Netflix

    Expansion of franchises such as Demon Slayer reflects shifts in the ownership and ambitions of a $24bn-a-year industry

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Global Economy
    ‘A massive second-half recovery’: Biden, China and the global economy

    Surging optimism about a boom in 2021 depends on heavy public spending and a rapid rollout of new Covid vaccines

  • 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

  • Promoted Content
  • 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

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Oil & Gas industry
    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

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