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HAMISH MCRAE: If we can emerge from all this with a better educated, more resilient workforce, then this is good news for the future By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 19 September 2020 We cannot  choose the moment to be born – or indeed … Read more

Boris Johnson’s government is all over the place on industrial policy. The capacity for indecision, obfuscation and zig-zags seen in the pandemic is just as pronounced when it comes to energy and technology. The retreat of Hitachi from a new nuclear plant at Wylfa in Anglesey, and continuing prevarication over EDF’s plans for a super-reactor … Read more

As the Chancellor who dusted off long-neglected plans to give the Bank of England independence, Gordon Brown deserves to be heard. But whether the middle of a pandemic is the right time for grand plans about changing the Bank’s remit is debateable. The Old Lady’s response to lockdown was immediate and bears no resemblance to … Read more

BEN WILKINSON: Government, regulators and providers must step in to protect savers from scams By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 10:06 BST, 16 September 2020 Scammers surely cannot believe their luck. A simple phone call is now all it takes to steal a pension saver’s life’s … Read more

On the day when the future of British technology jewel ARM Holding is on the line, it is hard to get agitated by a Canadian bid for outsourcing group G4S. A succession of scandals since the London Olympics in 2012, when G4S came close to undermining a great celebration of the UK, left its reputation … Read more

HAMISH MCRAE: This is not an argument for a punch-up with the European Union, but deal or no deal Brexit doesn’t really matter By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 12 September 2020 The trade row with Europe was always going to go to the … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Toxic mix of financial penalties handed out to drivers make me want to ditch my car By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:20 BST, 12 September 2020 Driving a car is a necessity for most of us, either as a result of where … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: We need to take advantage of the flexibility of UK’s liberal capitalism, not put handcuffs on By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 11 September 2020 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 11 September 2020 There have been so few good moments for Britain’s pandemic and Brexit-afflicted economy that we should mark … Read more

Jolly good for the London Stock Exchange that after a long drought it finally has a £5.4billion float to celebrate in the shape of the online beauty and health group, The Hut. It is a pity then that the 264-page prospectus, posted on the company’s website last evening, poses as many questions as it answers. … Read more