Martin Vander Weyer

Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. He writes the weekly Any Other Business column.

Despite what Big Bang destroyed, there’s still nowhere quite like the City

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

As the 30th anniversary of Big Bang loomed, I found myself back at the scene of my City demise. Ebbgate…

The Nissan test: can we really negotiate Brexit sector by sector?

22 October 2016 9:00 am

I wrote last month that a key test of Brexit success will be whether Nissan is still making cars here…

The Nissan test: can we really negotiate Brexit sector by sector?

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

I wrote last month that a key test of Brexit success will be whether Nissan is still making cars here…

Hard Brexit, soft sterling and a glimpse of the Night Manager across the water

15 October 2016 9:00 am

This column comes from Puerto Pollensa in Majorca, my favourite off-season watering-hole. The hotel is full of elderly Daily Mail…

Hard Brexit, soft sterling and a glimpse of the Night Manager across the water

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

This column comes from Puerto Pollensa in Majorca, my favourite off-season watering-hole. The hotel is full of elderly Daily Mail…

Brexit spooks the markets, but the housing crisis will swing more votes

8 October 2016 9:00 am

‘I rang and said can I have a council house, I’ve nowhere to go, an’ the bloke said no you…

Brexit spooks the markets, but the housing crisis will swing more votes

6 October 2016 2:00 pm

‘I rang and said can I have a council house, I’ve nowhere to go, an’ the bloke said no you…

If Deutsche Bank goes down without a bailout, I really will eat my hat

1 October 2016 9:00 am

‘Can anyone seriously imagine the German state and corporate establishment allowing the bank that bears their country’s name to go…

Simple rules for happy retirement

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

‘Financial policy chiefs clash over best way to fund retirement’, said a recent FT headline. Andrew Bailey, head of the…

If Deutsche Bank goes down without a bailout, I really will eat my hat

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

‘Can anyone seriously imagine the German state and corporate establishment allowing the bank that bears their country’s name to go…

A free vote on the Heathrow runway? Don’t be so wet, Prime Minister

24 September 2016 9:00 am

Hinkley Point — for all its flaws and the whiffs of suspicion around its Chinese investors — has finally received…

A free vote on the Heathrow runway? Don’t be so wet, Prime Minister

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

Hinkley Point — for all its flaws and the whiffs of suspicion around its Chinese investors — has finally received…

The new world of work is a jungle but don’t call workers ‘animals’

17 September 2016 9:00 am

The TUC general secretaryFrances O’Grady doesn’t get a lot of airtime. Compared with predecessors a generation ago, such as Vic…

The new world of work is a jungle but don’t call workers ‘animals’

15 September 2016 1:00 pm

The TUC general secretaryFrances O’Grady doesn’t get a lot of airtime. Compared with predecessors a generation ago, such as Vic…

Mrs May the ‘Student Killer’ should count the cost of her visa crackdown

10 September 2016 9:00 am

In the post-Brexit landscape whose shape was barely glimpsed in G20 discussions at Hangzhou, one thing is clear: soon we’ll…

Lessons in lolly

10 September 2016 9:00 am

Do you ever tell your pupils that debt is a bad thing?’ I challenged the headmaster of a thriving Midlands…

Mrs May the ‘Student Killer’ should count the cost of her visa crackdown

8 September 2016 1:00 pm

In the post-Brexit landscape whose shape was barely glimpsed in G20 discussions at Hangzhou, one thing is clear: soon we’ll…

Stalled EU-US talks offer a reality check for our own post-Brexit trade hopes

3 September 2016 9:00 am

Should we care two hoots whether negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP, pronounced ‘Tee-tip’ by cognoscenti) has…

Stalled EU-US talks offer a reality check for our own post-Brexit trade hopes

1 September 2016 1:00 pm

Should we care two hoots whether negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP, pronounced ‘Tee-tip’ by cognoscenti) has…

Oil prices will drift down again as Opec fails to get its act together

27 August 2016 9:00 am

How many Olympic medals did Opec win? The answer (though I’ll bet no one else has bothered to work this…

Oil prices will drift down again as Opec fails to get its act together

25 August 2016 1:00 pm

How many Olympic medals did Opec win? The answer (though I’ll bet no one else has bothered to work this…

Why lining shareholders’ pockets is more productive than plugging black holes

20 August 2016 9:00 am

The revelation by actuarial consultants Lane Clark & Peacock that 56 of the supposedly blue chip companies in the FTSE 100…

Why lining shareholders’ pockets is more productive than plugging black holes

18 August 2016 1:00 pm

The revelation by actuarial consultants Lane Clark & Peacock that 56 of the supposedly blue chip companies in the FTSE 100…

Why not use RBS as an experiment in narrowing the top-to-bottom pay gap?

12 August 2016 11:00 pm

Theresa May sent a strong message to the corporate world when she criticised the ‘irrational, unhealthy and growing gap’ between…

Why not use RBS as an experiment in narrowing the top-to-bottom pay gap?

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

Theresa May sent a strong message to the corporate world when she criticised the ‘irrational, unhealthy and growing gap’ between…