Mike Ashley
Why filling Santa’s sack will cost more this year
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey looks increasingly uncomfortable as inflation notches upwards from ‘nothing to worry about’ towards the…
Can Mike Ashley defy high street reality?
Separating heroes from villains in the great retail survival struggle is like spotting bent coppers in Line of Duty —…
Bailing out businesses looks inevitable – but it’s not all bad
Should the government be prepared to take equity stakes in major companies that will struggle to survive the current crisis?…
UK business investment has nosedived – what’s to blame?
Business investment in the UK declined in all four quarters of 2018 to complete a year-on-year dive of 2.4 per cent,…
History will judge UK ministers harshly for the Irish backstop
We may or may not hear news soon of a settlement of the Irish border issue that will allow Brexit…
Scrapping RBS’s brand is a start. Now break it up
Royal Bank of Scotland is at last about to dump the ‘RBS’ logotype promoted by its fallen chieftain Fred Goodwin,…
How George Osborne’s budget bolsters the case for leaving Europe
Give thanks for George Osborne — and I don’t say that because I happen to be writing this column on…
The internet is broken – and we can no longer do without it
‘The internet is broken,’ a corporate chieftain told me last week. It was an arresting remark, but he did not…
