Business

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…

The lesson of Looney: every board should prepare for scandal

23 September 2023 9:00 am

Bernard Looney, the fallen BP chief, always had a certain swagger about him. I’ve no idea whether he was unsafe…

The UK’s treatment of Activision shows it is closed for business

27 April 2023 3:07 am

It was, admittedly, not quite as thrilling as an action sequence from Call of Duty. Even so, the statement put…

How kindness became big business

13 August 2022 9:00 am

In those moments when I most fear that the West is on the skids, I find it helps to make…