When a travel firm hits trouble, its peers in the industry are committed to rescue and bring home the stranded customers. The fund management industry offers no such mutual protection for its clients stranded when a firm collapses
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The West End's hottest young playwright is a commuter-belt blonde with a penchant for lying and an appetite for danger. We love Lucy Prebble, says Hermione Eyre... more
As Keira Knightley prepares to make her stage debut and Ben Whishaw sells out the Royal Court, the signs are good, says Matt Wolf, for a theatrical boomtime.
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Former winners Patrick Stewart, Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale will be handing out the honours to new victors at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards next week... more
Stars of the British stage including Rachel Weisz, Samuel West and Lenny Henry will battle it out at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more
The Big Four accountancy firms have been told to back off from serious conflicts of interest in pursuing lucrative advisory work at their audit clients ... more
Enron, America’s most famous bankruptcy saga, wasn’t just a tale of greed, money, sex and electricity deregulation, though it was all of those things... more
Move over Mendes, watch out Nunn, Rupert Goold's production of Enron is the critical hit of the summer, and his Kubrick-inspired take on Shakespeare thrills modern audiences... more
Lucy Prebble, 28, adapted Secret Diary of a Call Girl for ITV. Her latest play, Enron, examines the downfall of the Texan-based energy firm in 2001... more
What do government ministers do with their time? It's a moot question, given the state the country is in, but some clue comes from the exchange of emails between the recently departed communications minister Lord Carter and his former employer, Brunswick ... more
Peep peep. That's the rights issue gravy train steaming across the City, throwing off vast amounts of investors' money to any investment bank passing... more
Gordon Ramsay is not the only high-profile celebrity chef having a hard time of it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the old Etonian contemporary of David Cameron, is not exactly flush with cash.... more
Enron's execs go from bubble to bust in Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Chow Yun-Fat stars in John Woo's all-action flick Another Tomorrow II, and Tristan & Isolde drips its way onto DVD.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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