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VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Insurance sharks risk their reputations being damaged as much as their bank balances By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 19 May 2020 Insurers are in grave danger of being cast as the villains of this crisis. As we reveal today, small-business owners … Read more

When lockdown began, our family, like millions of others, were excluded from home deliveries even though the household has a vulnerable member.  Ocado was impossible, Tesco could offer us no slots and Fresh, the food arm of Amazon-owned Whole Foods, claimed to have delivery times immediately available but it proved a false claim unless you … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s Easyjet row and Virgin Atlantic’s search for a bailout places a laser focus on airline industry By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 17 May 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 17 May 2020 Shareholder democracy is as important now as at any other time. That is why Stelios … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banking in a kangaroo court has to stop: Robots are taking over the proverbial asylum By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 There’s nothing wrong with online banking. Like most people, I embrace it and am often found in … Read more

The Skype dismissal of Rico Back as chief executive of the Royal Mail should not come as a shock. The very notion of the chief executive of one of the nation’s biggest front line employers sitting it out in Switzerland while postal workers have been on the battleground in the Covid-19 epidemic was unacceptable. Royal … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Britain cannot afford to turn a valuable international earner like Lloyds of London into a pariah By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 Britain’s insurers have not won many friends during the Covid-19 pandemic. The reluctance of Hiscox to pay … Read more

The contrast between stock markets and what is going on in the real economy of output, trade and jobs could not be more stark. Equity indexes, as the late Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson observed, are not the best of economic indicators. He famously quipped ‘the stock market has predicted nine of the past … Read more

A West End landlord recalled the other day that he feared his career in retail, which started during Ted Heath’s three-day week in the 1970s, might be over before it had begun. The response of his boss was that the firm survived the Blitz and would see off Heath. Similarly, in this landlord’s view, the … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: We need a plan to lift the property market safely out of lockdown By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:58 BST, 12 May 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 12 May 2020 Who would want to be a home buyer or seller at this time?  Hundreds of thousands of families have been … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Debt-aholics like Liberty Global need to be weaned off a system destabilising the global economy By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 11 May 2020 | Updated: 08:35 BST, 12 May 2020 John Malone’s Liberty Global is nothing if not brave. Unveiling a £31 billion merger between Virgin Media and … Read more