Business

Mark Carney, the mischief-making pin-up

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Well, would you look at Mark Carney. Just three months ago I described the incoming prime minister of Canada and…

It’s time to get rid of the Rich List

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Here’s a takeover tale that captures the zeitgeist. It involves two FTSE 250 companies and some deep-pocketed US investors –…

If the numbers add up, Shell should bid for BP

10 May 2025 9:00 am

A hangar full of analysts and investment bankers must have spent the long weekend formulating advice for Shell chief executive…

Save London’s black cabs!

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Donald Trump’s Soprano-like threat that the ‘termination’ of Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell ‘cannot come fast enough’ has been headlined…

Why the restaurant world hates beer drinkers

5 April 2025 9:00 am

I’ve always thought working in hospitality is like getting a free MBA – but one rooted in the real world…

UK tax on US tech is a useful bargaining chip

29 March 2025 9:00 am

The Digital Services Tax (DST) is a relatively easy bargaining chip to give away in a last-ditch bid to appease…

Where have all the new businesses gone?

15 February 2025 9:00 am

The Chancellor’s appeal to regulators last month for suggestions to boost growth was mocked as evidence that the government itself…

Rachel Reeves owes Brompton bikes an apology

18 January 2025 9:00 am

I long to write less about Rachel Reeves and more about world-beating British businesses – such as Brompton, the folding…

My business predictions for 2025

4 January 2025 9:00 am

Headed for ‘the worst of all worlds’ is not where any of us would wish to find ourselves at the…

The marketing genius of Jaguar

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Woke it may be, but Jaguar’s ‘Copy Nothing’ video is a work of marketing genius. With its ungendered models, ungrammatical…

The Ginger Rogers theory of information

7 December 2024 9:00 am

I had a friend whose approach to entrepreneurialism was to take two separate things that seemed stupidly popular and somehow…

In Mumbai, everyone asks about Rishi and Boris

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Mumbai is my kind of town, a party town. In my first weeks living here, I was out most nights…

Letters: In defence of Radio 3

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Vote of no confidence Sir: Rod Liddle is too harsh on those calling for another general election (‘I hope you…

The dark side of Black Friday

30 November 2024 9:00 am

How is it possible that we’re still reading headlines about the £4 billion fundraising from the Gulf that saved Barclays…

What does the City really think of the Chancellor?

23 November 2024 9:00 am

Regular invitations to Mansion House banquets petered out after I asked a shifty-looking waiter for a glass of champagne and…

My run-in with Greta Thunderpants

9 November 2024 9:00 am

The anger management counsellor stormed through the door and shouted at me to turn the heating up. Hello to you…

Is No. 10 coming for game shooting next?

9 November 2024 9:00 am

I confess I was lunching at L’Escargot in Greek Street as Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget. My excuse was that…

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…

The rise of anti-Elonism

19 October 2024 9:00 am

You can tell a lot about a country by who it admires. I was pleasantly surprised some years ago 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…

How to find out what organisations are saying about you

14 September 2024 9:00 am

Every time I have a protracted ding-dong with a big organisation, I put in a request under data protection law…

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…

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,…

How to quit like the Japanese

25 May 2024 9:00 am

Tokyo For many, the idea of quitting a job they hate, of walking into their boss’s office and telling him…

The truth about ‘boardroom diversity’

13 April 2024 9:00 am

We all know that increasing the diversity of your boardroom increases the success of your company because politicians, business leaders…