Asda

The Blackburn brothers who are bringing Asda home

10 October 2020 9:00 am

What a triumph of entrepreneurial empire-building — if that’s still an acceptable phrase — is the £6.8 billion acquisition of…

Billy Connolly and the death of free speech

6 July 2019 2:00 am

I hope readers will forgive me for returning to a subject I addressed here recently. It was a reflection on the…

What on earth’s happened to Waitrose?

2 June 2018 9:00 am

A few years ago, some friends came to stay with us on Exmoor. After they unfurled from their Volvo, they…