The end of rush hour
In media, technology and finance, the value of an employee is dictated by the hours they put in. But companies are starting to wake up – or rather, nap down – to the idea of slowing down our working days
In media, technology and finance, the value of an employee is dictated by the hours they put in. But companies are starting to wake up – or rather, nap down – to the idea of slowing down our working days
Brazil’s bureaucracy is maddening, or so everyone says. But for one tantalising moment, our São Paulo bureau chief thought everyone might be wrong
The Manchester band’s new single is like much of their music: mediocre. Why then do they command such devotion?
Granted an audience with Donald Trump, our correspondent hoped to pin him down on foreign policy. Instead, he got to see one of his favourite anecdotes come to life
The most forbidding corner of the world is now taking guests. In this podcast, our travel editor Sophy Roberts talks about what it was like to spend a week in Antarctica as a tourist, and explains why the continent is as much an idea as it is a place on the map
Britain and America have many things in common, but flag-waving patriotism is not one of them. Asked to sing the national anthem, one small ex-pat faced a big dilemma
To the leader of France’s National Front, politics is like a virus: “Once you have it, you never get away from it.” In this podcast, Sophie Pedder discusses the rise of Marine Le Pen
Every actor with something to prove longs
to play a character like Travis Bickle. But
forty years after “Taxi Driver” was made,
Robert De Niro has yet to meet his match
Less sentimental than “Inspector Montalbano”, but just as flavoursome, the legal thrillers of Gianrico Carofiglio – a former gang-busting lawyer – have sold more than five million copies
It may be clichéd but it’s also true: Germans have no sense of humour. Our Berlin bureau chief explains why
