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McKinsey’s mid-year reviews are the latest attempt to increase ‘attrition’

Preliminary approach underscores private equity’s interest in professional services

Former US partners hire lawyers in fight for bigger share of the proceeds from New Mountain deal

Offering complementary services can boost firms’ profits but can also erode client trust

Also in today’s newsletter, UK water companies’ data shortage and Mandela legacy disaffection

Also in today’s newsletter, Ukraine aid and the opening of Trump’s trial

Businesses can keep exploiting our tiredness while scientists seek to explain the mechanics of it

Also in this newsletter: sharp increase in military spending, Exxon speaks out to defend plastics, flying taxis

Miners are battling to whittle down the oversupply of gems

Elon Musk sends confusing message on earnings call

The FTC has defined a specific market of accessible luxury it says will be harmed if the deal goes through

Chabaidao’s experience reflects weak local investor sentiment

Nobel-winning economist speaks about her climate-focused tax proposal

Also in today’s newsletter, a new tax task force kicks off, and the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance widens its scope

Also in today’s newsletter, a new attack on ESG from Texas

Two new digital tools offer a fresh perspective on climate and transition risks

Seagull boy; nuking the moon; chief tractor officer; optimal Mario Kart

Top technology for the home office

Decades of growth are tapering off as the country struggles to reform its model and reduce its dependence on manufacturing

UK agency to look at past and present investigations as fresh issues emerge over evidence disclosure

Seamus Heaney’s touching acts of kindness, Jane Austen’s hangovers — an author’s correspondence reveals things that literature cannot

Tom Hollander’s titular writer ruffles feathers in ‘Capote vs The Swans’; BBC2’s ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ documents a game-changing excavation; ‘Baby Reindeer’ is an unsettling truth-based stalker drama; biographical costume drama ‘Franklin’ stars Michael Douglas stars as Benjamin Franklin; season 2 of gritty Belfast police drama ‘Blue Lights’; Amazon Prime’s ‘Fallout’ is an apocalyptic video-game adaptation — reviews by Dan Einav

With a fall in the number of young adults going to church, members of the clergy are creating short videos in a bid to connect

This week’s responses to the Israel-Hamas war remind us that art is rarely apolitical

Using old, abandoned objects to mourn the plight of his native Syria, Kourbaj creates works that speak with particular power to exiled author Hisham Matar

Svalbard’s polar night can be endured — if you know the right crowd 

Big corporations — and lots of tourists — are changing the West Coast’s most famous wine-growing region

Doris Kearns Goodwin has written award-winning studies of four former American presidents. Her latest book focuses on her own coming of age

A new book by the celebrated social photographer captures the city in all its most unscrupulous glory

Seamus Heaney’s touching acts of kindness, Jane Austen’s hangovers — an author’s correspondence reveals things that literature cannot

This fast-paced account lays bare bitter divisions, relentless setbacks and a prime minister’s ultimate undoing

What do you plant for a poet? The novelist describes creating her garden against time

Meet the women expertly challenging convention in a male-dominated profession

After a four-year hiatus the lavish hotel-train is back, on a new route through the jungles of Malaysia

The co-founder of the east London retail, art and restaurant space takes us on a whirl around his favourite shops, galleries and eateries in the capital

A grand sweep of gardens, palaces and monuments, this Unesco World Heritage site is also a retreat from the summer heat. But its vast arboreal canopy might be under threat

The annual Salone del Mobile is a vast display of slick superfluousness but at its heart is a deep regard for tradition and craftsmanship

When Lord and Lady Barnard became custodians of the ancestral seat in 2016, they inherited a fairytale – and a project in urgent need of help

This modest farm labourers’ cottage in New York was where the master of the macabre wrote his final works

Whether repairing antiques for a museum or refashioning a discarded piece yourself, there’s a story to be found in the stuffing