Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsLatest: Cleaning company McBride hit by raw material cost surgeIntro: China’s exports beat forecasts in August, up 25.6%Trade accelerates despite virus and supply chain disruptionAnalyst: Christ…
UK orders national security review of graphene firm’s takeover by Chinese scientist
Watchdog to look at potential takeover of Wales-based Perpetuus Group by Dr Zhongfu Zhou or Taurus InternationalBusiness secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has ordered a national security review of a takeover by a Chinese academic of a small Welsh manufacturer o…
The cannabis industry is booming, but for many Black Americans the price of entry is steep
Social equity rules can reduce barriers to entry for communities most affected by discriminatory drug lawsWhile Bernard Noble sat in a Louisiana jail riding out a 13-year sentence for possession of 2.8 grams of marijuana, cannabis legalization and decr…
UK house prices hit record high despite cut in stamp duty break
Average prices rose by 0.7% in August to £262,954, says HalifaxThe average UK house price reached a fresh record high in August while annual inflation cooled to a five-month low, after the partial end of the stamp duty holiday in England and Northern I…
‘Anthony Hopkins committed within five minutes’: how I wrote The Father with Florian Zeller
After Christopher Hampton saw Zeller’s dementia drama on stage in Paris, neither language, finance nor another film adaptation could thwart their collaboration on the screenplayI first met Florian Zeller about eight years ago. It was in the foyer of th…
Licence to krill: the destructive demand for a ‘better’ fish oil
Industrial fishing of the tiny crustacea in a dietary supplements gold rush is threatening the very base of the food chain• This article was produced with the Environmental Reporting Collective, whose full report is part of the Oceans Inc collaborative…
Public inquiry begins into plans for new coalmine in Cumbria
Campaigners say support for building UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years is diminishingThere is dwindling support for proposals to build the UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years in Cumbria, say campaigners, as a public inquiry into the mining plans ge…
FirstGroup to launch budget London to Edinburgh rail service next month
The service, branded Lumo, says 60% of seats will cost £30 or less with a max fare of £69 one-wayFirstGroup is to launch a budget direct London-Edinburgh rail service next month, which it hopes will lure air passengers to the train as a cheaper and gre…
コロナ禍でゴルフ人気が爆発も、新しいクラブは世界的なサプライチェーン危機で入手困難に
コロナ禍でも安全にプレーできるというところに多くの人々が引き付けられたようです。
従業員の「燃え尽き症候群」は、1週間の全社休業で抑止する：企業の取り組みは実を結ぶか
米国などの一部の企業が従業員の「燃え尽き症候群」を減らすべく、このほど1週間にわたるリフレッシュ休暇を実施した。コロナ禍でなにかとストレスのたまる従業員たちに心身ともに“リセット”してもらいたいという意図だが、こうした時間はいま間違いなく求められている。
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