the City
Has Rachel Reeves secured a rare victory for growth?
There’s very little to celebrate in Downing Street these days but it must have been vodka shots all round in…
‘It’s a Faustian pact’: Rachel Reeves is giving bankers what they want
The Epstein files lift the curtain on how power is exercised and influence traded by our financial elite. It is…
The City still runs on nepotism
When Liz Truss says she wants to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, she thinks she is making a moral…
Tea with the WI offers lessons on responsible investment
Late-breaking exam results: many of the City’s top fund managers have failed a vital test of ‘stewardship’ — defined for…
The Liberal Democrats have a dangerous vision for the City of London
Liberals have always set great store by laws and declarations. It was joked about Lord Loreburn, the liberal Lord Chancellor…
Close encounters
In October 2011 anti-capitalist vagrants built an open-air squat outside St Paul’s within shrieking distance of London’s financial heart. The…
Sin city
When to launch? For impresarios, this is the eternal dilemma. Autumn is so crowded with press nights that producers are…
Home-grown sage
Economics is known as ‘the dismal science’, and certainly there have been — and indeed are — economists whose day…
All the usual suspects
Owen Jones’s first book, Chavs, was a political bestseller. This follow-up skips over the middle classes and goes to the…
