Martin Vander Weyer

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

Detroit’s bankruptcy isn’t ‘creative destruction’ – it’s old-fashioned mismanagement

27 July 2013 9:00 am

One of the best articles I ever commissioned as an editor was an account by James Doran of a road…

Four recessions, runaway inflation, sky-high taxes: who says Baby Boomers had it easy?

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Here’s a competition for you: ‘The most irritating discussion on Radio 4 in the past month.’ Answers in not more…

Is this amazing railway going ahead? Not if Boris and Mandychops can help it

13 July 2013 9:00 am

‘Does anyone seriously doubt that this amazing scheme is actually going to go ahead?’ boomed Boris Johnson last week. ‘No…

Great creator and sharer of wealth? Maybe, but Mr Rich was also a terrible role model

6 July 2013 9:00 am

Marc Rich, the godfather of global commodity trading who died last week, ‘deserves credit as one of the greatest creators…

Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer

23 May 2013 1:00 pm

I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…

Better to be the founder of a cool social network than the billion-dollar buyer

23 May 2013 1:00 pm

I haven’t used Yahoo as a general search engine since an American friend introduced me to the miracle that was…

Funding: Local heroes

30 October 2010 11:00 am

I was acting and directing at Helmsley Arts Centre last week, in a little piece of ‘café theatre’ performed in…

Funding: Local heroes

30 October 2010 11:00 am

I was acting and directing at Helmsley Arts Centre last week, in a little piece of ‘café theatre’ performed in…