Lionel Barber

Lloyd Blankfein – guiding light of Goldman Sachs

14 March 2026 9:00 am

While considered a safe pair of hands during the financial crisis of 2007, Blankfein skirts around some of Goldman’s more controversial decisions at the time

The rotten core of Credit Suisse

14 December 2024 9:00 am

For scandal, sleaze, hubris and treachery, no financial institution has been a serial offender like the disgraced Swiss bank. Little wonder it was dubbed Credit Swizz or Debit Suisse

Jeremy Hunt is the ‘unity’ leader the Tories need

17 October 2022 1:15 am

Liz Truss is now prime minister in name only: Jeremy Hunt, her chancellor of the exchequer, now holds power. He…

What Putin wants

12 March 2022 9:00 am

Has the West miscalculated?

Diary

27 November 2021 9:00 am

  Amsterdam These are dangerous times in the Netherlands. Anti-lockdown mobs have torched cars, thrown rocks and attacked the police.…

The pros and cons of consensus

19 September 2020 9:00 am

The British romance with Germany has always been an on-off affair. At the turn of the century, Kaiser Bill enjoyed…

World of difference

4 April 2020 9:00 am

What will post-coronavirus economies and societies look like?

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How will the world be changed by the war against coronavirus?

3 April 2020 4:06 am

The world as we have known it for the past 40 years has come to a stop. We have a…