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Power fail: French tantrum diplomacy is wearing thin
It’s hard for tabloid journalists to engage in mad hyperbole when politicians seem all too willing to do it for…
The death of investment banking will lead to the rebirth of something better
Oh woe. Investment bank profits are evaporating after a disastrous contraction of trading revenues reflecting zero-to-negative interest rates, weak commodity…
Portrait of the week
Home The Indian company Tata decided to sell its entire steel business in Britain, putting more than 15,000 jobs in…
Letters
Amber warning Sir: James Forsyth’s interview with Amber Rudd (‘The Amber Express’, 19 March) was very revealing, but also slightly…
Portrait of the week
Home The Bank of England arranged for banks to be able to borrow as much money as they needed around…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, spent time in Brussels before a meeting of the European Council to see what…
Apocalypse now? Markets seem set on a self-fulfilling prophecy
All this talk of a new financial apocalypse, so soon after the last one, is starting to annoy me. Partly…
I told you so: the UK electricity gap looms wider than ever
Amid all the turmoil in global energy markets, we should not lose sight of the UK power programme that we’re…
The Hinkley Point disaster
Britain’s new nuclear plant has hardly left the drawing board, but it’s already a case study in what not to do
Nuclear fallout
Britain is about to buy the world’s most expensive power station
Portrait of the week
Home EDF Energy said it would put up prices by 3.9 per cent. BT Sport spent £897 million on the rights…
Investment: Power failures
Politics makes it hard to pick winners in the energy sector
Portrait of the week
Home The government agreed a guaranteed price for electricity that persuaded a consortium led by the French-owned EDF Energy and…
A new nuclear plant is better than a stab in the dark
Prediction, as Mervyn King once observed, is ‘a stab in the dark’. Who can say with confidence where the wholesale…
