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A trans-Pacific trade deal is great if we have the right products to sell

8 April 2023 9:00 am

BBC News reported Britain’s imminent accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership behind two stories about racism…

Sir Jim or the Sheikh for Man Utd? Either will be better than the Glazers

25 February 2023 9:00 am

‘Greenwashing vs Sportswashing’, as Sky Sports put it, is a curious way to characterise the emerging £6 billion takeover tussle…

Is corporate ‘purpose’ falling out of fashion?

4 February 2023 9:00 am

Does a change of chief executive at Unilever, the British-based shampoo-to-Marmite multinational, signal the demise of the fashion for corporate…

What Boris Johnson should do next

18 January 2023 10:00 pm

If you were rich, foreign and globally mobile, would you choose to move to the UK? The trend, it turns…

We should never have tried cosying up to Chinese investors

3 December 2022 9:00 am

I can’t read ‘China rocked by protests’ and ‘Zero Covid could be the end of Xi Jinping’s rule’ without recalling…

The welcome death of the ‘my truth’ investment boom

26 November 2022 9:00 am

A colourful selection of news items this week seem to have a central thread. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the Theranos…