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Is Donald Trump a man we can do business with? An insider’s verdict
How good a businessman is Donald Trump? Maybe the answer doesn’t matter, since barring death or impeachment he’ll be the…
Why Google’s still not doing 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…
Charlotte Hogg belongs to boardrooms’ real endangered species
Tesco chairman John Allan provoked feminist fury by telling would-be non-exec directors, ‘If you’re a white male, tough: you’re an…
Why I doubt the warm words about Vauxhall and Brexit
Budget week also turned out to be a week of notable deals. PSA, French owner of Peugeot and Citroën, went…
London Stock Exchange picked the wrong year for a pan-European merger
The marriage of the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse may not be stone dead but that’s the way to…
We should all be glad that Unilever saw off predatory robot Kraft Heinz
I was sorry Kraft Heinz’s £115 billion bid for Unilever collapsed so fast — unveiled on Friday, it was dead…
One good thing about bank closures: they could give the Co-op a new job
Many thanks to the stampede of readers who sent news of bank branch closures. There’s certainly a national pattern, and…
Our high streets are reviving — don’t let bank closures mess them up
Almost a decade after the financial crisis loomed, our high streets and town centres are full of life again: who…
Trump vs British banks
President Donald Trump is demolishing his predecessor’s legacy as fast as he can sign executive orders, but one thing for…
Is Mrs May’s industrial strategy just another misguided missile?
The Prime Minister’s heralded ‘industrial strategy’ was robbed of headlines by the story of the misguided Trident missile. But it…
Oxfam don’t understand the rich — but they still have a point
I’ve objected before to the fact that supporters of Oxfam shops are unknowingly funding not only an aid charity but…
Inflation creeps back in, like the forgotten whiff of cigarette smoke
From supermarkets to superyacht builders, sales figures are remarkably buoyant: consumer debt may be rising too, but no one can…
Will disgruntlement prevail again in 2017?
Most of my predictions for 2016 were wrong; so let’s not revisit them. But I was right, in January, to…
Whatever happened to Sir George? A festive finale to an eventful year
Many (well, several) of you asked me what happened to George, the supermarket chairman who was the anti-hero of my…
Why workers on boards is a stale red herring
‘We’re going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but workers as well,’ Theresa May declared in July.…
May and Hammond’s promises to business are just window-dressing
Theresa May likes to give a kitten-heeled kicking to conference audiences, even when they are police officers or her own…
In Houston, even the oil men won’t admit to voting Trump
Houston, Texas It’s hard to find anyone in polite society here who admits to having voted for Trump, even among…
Can anything make online banking truly hacker-proof?
There’s an electronic device on my desk that looks — through its bubble- wrap — like a cheap miniature calculator.…
Why Philip Hammond should be getting ready to break up RBS
The new series of The Missing is surely the gloomiest television of the year. But it has nothing on the…
I still think Big Bang hurt the City – but it’ll survive even Brexit
As the 30th anniversary of Big Bang loomed, I found myself back at the scene of my City demise. Ebbgate…
What can Theresa May really promise Nissan?
I wrote last month that a key test of Brexit success will be whether Nissan is still making cars here…
Brexit will hurt in the hotels of Majorca – but not the private peninsula
This column comes from Puerto Pollensa in Majorca, my favourite off-season watering-hole. The hotel is full of elderly Daily Mail…
The best answer to the Brexit vote: more jobs and more houses
‘I rang and said can I have a council house, I’ve nowhere to go, an’ the bloke said no you…
If Deutsche Bank goes down without a bailout, I really will eat my hat
‘Can anyone seriously imagine the German state and corporate establishment allowing the bank that bears their country’s name to go…
A free vote on Heathrow? Don’t be so wet, Prime Minister
Hinkley Point — for all its flaws and the whiffs of suspicion around its Chinese investors — has finally received…
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