Martin Vander Weyer

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

TalkTalk shows us the internet is only three clicks from anarchy

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

I’m not a customer of TalkTalk, the phone company which revealed last week that a hacker had potentially compromised the…

TalkTalk shows us the internet is only three clicks from anarchy

29 October 2015 9:00 am

I’m not a customer of TalkTalk, the phone company which revealed last week that a hacker had potentially compromised the…

Heathrow’s third runway could still be halted – here’s how

24 October 2015 9:00 am

The Great British Runway final between Heathrow and Gatwick is beginning to look like a game of two halves. The…

Heathrow’s third runway could still be halted – here’s how

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

The Great British Runway final between Heathrow and Gatwick is beginning to look like a game of two halves. The…

The spectre haunting George Osborne

17 October 2015 8:00 am

Rather more attention was paid last week to the strange position of George Osborne’s feet than to the dark shape…

The spectre haunting George Osborne

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

Rather more attention was paid last week to the strange position of George Osborne’s feet than to the dark shape…

Finally, a business rates reform! If only I knew what it meant

10 October 2015 9:00 am

This column has repeatedly cried that something must be done about business rates. Yes, it’s fair to ask businesses, as…

Finally, a business rates reform! If only I knew what it meant

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

This column has repeatedly cried that something must be done about business rates. Yes, it’s fair to ask businesses, as…

VW and the truth of engineering: say what you do, do what you say

3 October 2015 9:00 am

Not that I was much of a boy racer, but the sexiest car I ever owned was a 1982 Volkswagen…

VW and the truth of engineering: say what you do, do what you say

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

Not that I was much of a boy racer, but the sexiest car I ever owned was a 1982 Volkswagen…

This will-they-won’t-they rate-rise saga has dragged on long enough

26 September 2015 8:00 am

When news broke last Thursday evening that the US Federal Reserve had decided to keep interest rates on hold, I…

This will-they-won’t-they rate-rise saga has dragged on long enough

24 September 2015 1:00 pm

When news broke last Thursday evening that the US Federal Reserve had decided to keep interest rates on hold, I…

The Living Wage is nifty politics – but let’s see more help for small business too

19 September 2015 8:00 am

What is George Osborne’s Living Wage? Is it a ploy to shift cost from the taxpayer to the employer by…

The Living Wage is nifty politics – but let’s see more help for small business too

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

What is George Osborne’s Living Wage? Is it a ploy to shift cost from the taxpayer to the employer by…

All those boardroom codes still can’t catch rogues and incompetents

12 September 2015 9:00 am

Sir Adrian Cadbury, who has died aged 86, is remembered as the author in 1992 of a first stab at…

All those boardroom codes still can’t catch rogues and incompetents

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

Sir Adrian Cadbury, who has died aged 86, is remembered as the author in 1992 of a first stab at…

Cheer up: we’re robust enough to withstand a shock from China

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Home from the hot Aegean, huddled by the fire as rain ruins the bank holiday weekend, I’m thinking: what gloom…

Cheer up: we’re robust enough to withstand a shock from China

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Home from the hot Aegean, huddled by the fire as rain ruins the bank holiday weekend, I’m thinking: what gloom…

Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic

29 August 2015 9:00 am

 MS Queen Victoria, 38°N 19°E I’ll do my best, but I’ve got to be honest: being surrounded by shining Ionian…

Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

 MS Queen Victoria, 38°N 19°E I’ll do my best, but I’ve got to be honest: being surrounded by shining Ionian…

Come on, prime minister: a peerage for our peerless folding bike designer

22 August 2015 9:00 am

Asked to name Britain’s greatest living industrial designer, most people might cite Sir Jony Ive of Apple or Sir James…

Come on, prime minister: a peerage for our peerless folding bike designer

20 August 2015 1:00 pm

Asked to name Britain’s greatest living industrial designer, most people might cite Sir Jony Ive of Apple or Sir James…

The clock that stopped: the victory of nuclear arms and defeat of nuclear power

15 August 2015 9:00 am

‘I visited the black marble obelisk which marks the epicentre of the explosion, and I saw the plain domestic wall-clock…

The clock that stopped: the victory of nuclear arms and defeat of nuclear power

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

‘I visited the black marble obelisk which marks the epicentre of the explosion, and I saw the plain domestic wall-clock…

The Libor trader’s long stretch is a big message to the banking world

8 August 2015 9:00 am

Fourteen years is a long stretch. The punishment imposed on former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for his role…