The Sunday Pivot: your guide to the week ahead in business and markets

The Sunday Pivot: your guide to the week that was and the week ahead in business and markets.

Asda sales fell 5.8% over Christmas. Allan Leighton, who is returning as chairman after two decades, wants to truly revive the supermarket giant

It’s eight months since rugby league star Rob Burrow died of motor neurone disease. Now his wife, Lindsey, has written a moving memoir about their life together

Now 90, Billy Boston rose above discrimination to establish himself as a role model in a community that was proud to support him. He and his sport should be properly honoured sooner rather than later

Police are investigating claims that bosses at the fast-fashion group were followed, with some reporting surveillance at their homes

The quest for passion has leached from career advice to recruitment policies. But most jobs are, often, soul-suckingly tedious

They ask completely different questions, says the Vatican Observatory director, but the church’s persecution of Galileo was ‘wrong’

His top campaign adviser told him to wait until autumn to go to the polls. Dominic Cummings said pay off the striking doctors. In an extract from his new book Tim Shipman reveals how the ‘punch-drunk’...

The app has had more than a million sign-ups since Donald Trump’s election, as X users seek sanctuary from bots, offensive posts — and its owner’s politics

Washington will be ‘less interested’ in a free trade deal if Britain moves into closer alignment with Brussels, according to one of the president-elect’s key advisers

His tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury transformed the church, but scandals such as the John Smyth case have cast a shadow over his legacy

Donald Trump’s new cabinet picks: After winning the election, he is likely to prize one thing above all else from his advisers