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Still hunting for a Trump trade? Gold may have further to rise

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Anyone hunting for a ‘Trump trade’ at this late stage has probably missed the US election bus. If you bought…

Wahed’s alarming Tube adverts

26 October 2024 9:00 am

As the interminable Budget wait goes on, so does the trawl through the Chancellor’s bin bags. I refer to the…

In defence of eating out

19 October 2024 9:00 am

Scheduling the Budget almost four months after their election victory would have counted as a monumental misjudgment for the Labour…

Where are all my after-dinner speaking gigs?

12 October 2024 9:00 am

How excited are you to hear the Prime Minister talking tech with Eric Schmidt, an American billionaire who used to…

Goodbye to Old King Coal

5 October 2024 9:00 am

So farewell, Ratcliffe-on-Soar: the UK’s last coal-fired power station shut down on Monday, having burned five million tonnes of coal…

The Murdochs’ next move: Rightmove

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Next month’s Budget tax raids on capital have provoked a festival of creative doom-mongering on the fringes of Labour’s conference…

In defence of McJobs

21 September 2024 9:00 am

The burden of higher taxation must fall on those with ‘the broadest shoulders’, says the Prime Minister, and City folks…

Don’t look back in anger… it’s just how ticket sales work

14 September 2024 9:00 am

We expect Ryanair tickets to cost more on holiday Saturdays than term-time Tuesdays and Uber fares to surge in the…

Why is no one marching against VAT on school fees?

7 September 2024 9:00 am

How passively we respond to revelations of Labour’s real direction of travel. As millions of pensioners brace for the confiscation…

My time on Hinge

31 August 2024 9:00 am

Back to work, back to school, back to politics: the French call it la rentrée and my own summer idyll…

The tragic misfortune of Mike Lynch

24 August 2024 9:00 am

Twice I met the tech tycoon Mike Lynch (missing, feared dead, as we went to press), once a decade or…

After the Olympics, France has to face its grim reality

17 August 2024 9:00 am

The French television personality Laurent Baffie, interviewed by Le Figaro, came up with a nice phrase for the success beyond…

Market apocalypse? No, a welcome correction

10 August 2024 9:00 am

A bout of global stock-market turmoil and an outbreak of UK street violence as adjacent news items gave an apocalyptic…

How many summers do you have left?

27 July 2024 9:00 am

If the new government’s ‘pensions review’ takes forward last year’s ‘Mansion House reforms’ – credited to chancellor Jeremy Hunt but…

How the markets reacted to Trump’s assassination attempt

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Market reactions to the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania represent, according to taste, rational bets on the significantly increased likelihood of…

How safe do you feel boarding a Boeing?

13 July 2024 9:00 am

‘They knocked down our old house in three hours,’ says a friend who has embarked on what he says is…

Let’s start the new era with a glass of champagne

6 July 2024 9:00 am

‘I drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad,’ Madame Lily Bollinger (1899-1977) remarked. ‘Sometimes I drink it when…

Can things only get better under Starmer?

29 June 2024 9:00 am

‘We are the masters now,’ I chirrup to my Holborn and St Pancras neighbours – misquoting Labour attorney-general Hartley Shawcross…

Why should Putin be allowed to keep seized Russian assets?

22 June 2024 9:00 am

The seizure of enemy treasure, formerly known as plunder and pillage, is an ancient tool of war. Though still practised…

Nigel Farage is right: the City should not kowtow to Shein

15 June 2024 9:00 am

Nigel Farage and I agree on one thing: a red-carpet welcome at the London Stock Exchange for Shein, the Chinese…

A thriving City will test Labour’s tolerance

8 June 2024 9:00 am

The City is having a busier year than pessimistic observers – including me – might have expected. The biggest deal…

Bury the Canaletto, now

1 June 2024 9:00 am

I’m not on the guest list for the Duke of Westminster’s wedding, but I wish him luck anyway. Mind you,…

The need for greed

25 May 2024 9:00 am

I suspect I’ve had a lot more fun writing about the annual Sunday Times Rich List over the years than…

Can Starmer and Reeves add some fizz to the economy?

18 May 2024 9:00 am

If the 0.6 per cent first-quarter GDP uplift reported by the Office for National Statistics is sustained for the rest…

How to bottle Britishness

11 May 2024 9:00 am

The US crackdown on trade finance for Russia from international banks – designed to impede imports needed for the continuing…