This is the Guardian. If you could get rid of everything bad about banks and build one from scratch,

you'd build a different kind of bank.

One that has actual people you can talk to 24-7, not robots,

doesn't invest in fossil fuels, charges no extra fees for spending abroad

and definitely doesn't close before you finish work. You'd build tools to help manage bills,

teach kids good money habits, and give interest on personal and

joint accounts.

So what would that look like?

Starling Bank, the Bank Built for you.

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Days of the Jackal, how Andrew Wiley turns serious literature into big business by Alex Blaisdell.

Andrew Wiley, the world's most renowned and for a long time its most reviled literary agent is 76 years old. Over the past four decades he has reshaped the

business of publishing in profound and some say in salubrious ways. He has been a champion of high-brow books and unabashed commerce, making

many great writers famous and many famous writers rich. In the process, he has helped to define the global literary canon.

His critics argue that he has also hastened the demise of the literary culture he claims to defend.

Wiley is largely untroubled by such criticisms.

What preoccupies him instead are the deals to be made in China.

Wiley's further for China began in 2008 when a bidding war broke out among Chinese publishers

for the collected works of Jorge Luis Borhes. Wiley, who represents the Argentine master's estate, received

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