Martin Vander Weyer

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

Hollande equals Thatcher? Not quite, Monsieur le President, but keep trying

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Have you ever tried discussing the merits of gun control with a Texan, or of deregulated labour markets with a…

Warning: top-performing funds are highly likely to contain tobacco

28 May 2016 9:00 am

Axa will no longer invest in the tobacco industry: the French insurance giant will sell €184 million of shares and…

Warning: top-performing funds are highly likely to contain tobacco

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

Axa will no longer invest in the tobacco industry: the French insurance giant will sell €184 million of shares and…

Despite rumours to the contrary, the high-speed loco has left the drawing board

21 May 2016 9:00 am

There’s a lot of negativity around HS2, and I sniff a Brexit connection. You might think Leave campaigners whose aim…

Despite rumours to the contrary, the high-speed loco has left the drawing board

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

There’s a lot of negativity around HS2, and I sniff a Brexit connection. You might think Leave campaigners whose aim…

Have we sacrificed a quarter’s growth to answer the European question?

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Has the shadow of Brexit already cost us a slice of GDP — and if so, is it a blip…

Have we sacrificed a quarter’s growth to answer the European question?

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

Has the shadow of Brexit already cost us a slice of GDP — and if so, is it a blip…

Scrapping RBS’s toxic brand should be a step towards a final break-up

7 May 2016 9:00 am

Royal Bank of Scotland is at last about to dump the ‘RBS’ logotype promoted by its fallen chieftain Fred Goodwin,…

Scrapping RBS’s toxic brand should be a step towards a final break-up

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Royal Bank of Scotland is at last about to dump the ‘RBS’ logotype promoted by its fallen chieftain Fred Goodwin,…

The death of investment banking will lead to the rebirth of something better

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Oh woe. Investment bank profits are evaporating after a disastrous contraction of trading revenues reflecting zero-to-negative interest rates, weak commodity…

The death of investment banking will lead to the rebirth of something better

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Oh woe. Investment bank profits are evaporating after a disastrous contraction of trading revenues reflecting zero-to-negative interest rates, weak commodity…

If you’re riding the FTSE rebound you might still want to sell in May

23 April 2016 9:00 am

When the FTSE100 fell close to 5,500 in February, we all said ‘Mr Bear is back’. On Tuesday the index…

If you’re riding the FTSE rebound you might still want to sell in May

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

When the FTSE100 fell close to 5,500 in February, we all said ‘Mr Bear is back’. On Tuesday the index…

Let’s refocus the Panama story on the bad stuff that really matters

16 April 2016 9:00 am

There were moments last week when I was ready to give up journalism and retrain in a less unsavoury profession…

Let’s refocus the Panama story on the bad stuff that really matters

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

There were moments last week when I was ready to give up journalism and retrain in a less unsavoury profession…

Credit where it’s due to Tata, our greatest inward investor

9 April 2016 9:00 am

If asked to pick the UK’s inward investor of the century so far I would, without hesitation, name Ratan Tata,…

Credit where it’s due to Tata, our greatest inward investor

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

If asked to pick the UK’s inward investor of the century so far I would, without hesitation, name Ratan Tata,…

Osborne’s on the back foot but his Living Wage deserves praise

2 April 2016 9:00 am

It was unfashionable of me to write in praise of George Osborne on Budget day. I did so, you may…

Osborne’s on the back foot but his Living Wage deserves praise

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

It was unfashionable of me to write in praise of George Osborne on Budget day. I did so, you may…

My straw polls say the ‘leave’ campaign is failing to make a clear economic case

26 March 2016 9:00 am

In every gathering, someone — often me — calls for a show of hands on Brexit. And I have to…

My straw polls say the ‘leave’ campaign is failing to make a clear economic case

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

In every gathering, someone — often me — calls for a show of hands on Brexit. And I have to…

Why Osborne’s Budget bolsters the case for leaving Europe

19 March 2016 9:00 am

Give thanks for George Osborne — and I don’t say that because I happen to be writing this column on…

Why Osborne’s Budget bolsters the case for leaving Europe

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

Give thanks for George Osborne — and I don’t say that because I happen to be writing this column on…

This great commodity rally doesn’t mean that spring has arrived

12 March 2016 9:00 am

All in all, this is an odd moment for an outburst of high spirits: not from me — I’m as…

This great commodity rally doesn’t mean that spring has arrived

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

All in all, this is an odd moment for an outburst of high spirits: not from me — I’m as…