Forget London’s ramshackle Garden Bridge: bring on Nine Elms-to-Pimlico instead
I can’t work up much indignation at the collapse of London’s Garden Bridge project, which has been strangled by the…
Why is your holiday exchange rate so awful? Because investors see hope for the eurozone
As usual for August, I’m in France, where the news in brief is ‘Euro up, Macron down’. The youthful French…
Fudging Ireland’s border issue can only mean Troubles ahead
The question of what kind of border after Brexit will exist between Northern Ireland and the Republic will, I predict,…
Fudging Ireland’s border issue can only mean Troubles ahead
The question of what kind of border after Brexit will exist between Northern Ireland and the Republic will, I predict,…
Cheating German car-makers are good news for Brexiteers
It came as no great surprise to learn that the EU competition authorities are crawling all over the three major…
Bending London’s listing rules to win Saudi favour smacks of desperation
Now here’s a tricky question. The world’s largest oil company, potentially worth six times as much as ExxonMobil and ten…
The Taylor report is wrong to suggest cash in hand is fundamentally dishonest
Would a cashless world be a -better place, morally or fiscally? -Matthew Taylor, in his relatively uncontroversial review of work…
Let’s make sure our fishermen are protected against Brexit tit-for-tat
I voted Remain last year for two reasons. First, however irritating I found some aspects of the EU, I could…
The next financial crisis is coming ‘with a vengeance’, says the expert. But when?
There’s a passage in Philip Larkin’s All What Jazz, the collection of his writings as the Daily Telegraph’s jazz critic,…
Why I’m sad to see Barclays in the dock – and astonished to see John Varley there
Regular readers know I have an umbilical connection to Barclays, because my father spent his working life there, I was…
Let’s have a dose of business sense in Downing Street before it’s too late
Take no notice of the resilience of the FTSE100 index, which, having reached record pre-election highs, shed barely 100 points…
The Board of Trade won’t boost exports if business conditions aren’t right at home
The last limp gambit of the Tory campaign was a promise to revive the Board of Trade. As a way…
BA’s disaster plan failed as soon as the smoke started coming out of its servers
The science of ‘disaster recovery planning’, together with the related art of ‘crisis PR’, is a core discipline of 21st-century…
We’d all like to see Fred on the hook but RBS investors will be wiser to settle
‘Fred Goodwin off the hook again,’ declared the Scottish Daily Record. That neatly summed up one strand of sentiment behind…
Here’s who should be Mrs May’s cabinet supremo to tackle the housing shortage
Who should be housing supremo in what we all assume will be Mrs May’s new administration? Brandon Lewis and Gavin…
The economy isn’t all roses, but that’s no reason not to vote for Mrs May
As the election campaign goes into full swing, we hear surprisingly little about the state of the UK economy —…
Why binding shareholder votes on pay should be a manifesto promise
Will executive pay pop up in Theresa May’s manifesto? An objective of her snap election is to secure a larger…
Capping prices to win votes is no substitute for a serious energy strategy
Is capping domestic energy prices an equitable way to help the ‘just about managing’, or an electoral gimmick with a…
Disaster versus chaos for France’s economy? My village neighbours don’t seem bothered
The lovely Dordogne village of St Pompon that is my holiday hide-away has only 350 voters, but is a perfect…
A whistleblower mystery that illuminates the inner turmoil of the banking sector
What troubled places banks have become, I thought as I listened to two news stories, one concerning a formal reprimand…
On balance, I’d vote for a rate rise and a stronger pound
Since Article 50 was triggered last week, City traders have been avidly watching the fluctuations of the pound. Analysts at…
Does the truth about Trump’s art of the deal really matter?
How good a businessman is Donald Trump? Maybe the answer doesn’t matter, since barring death or impeachment he’ll be the…
Google still needs to try a lot harder to do the right thing
Shortly before agreeing, early last year, to pay token back taxes on a decade’s worth of UK-generated profits, Google also……
Spot the endangered species: white men grab the chairs while Hogg loses her job
Tesco chairman John Allan provoked feminist fury by telling would-be non-exec directors, ‘If you’re a white male, tough: you’re an…
New European giants? Standard-Aberdeen looks a better bet than Peugeot-Vauxhall
Budget week also turned out to be a week of notable deals. PSA, French owner of Peugeot and Citroën, went…
