ALEX BRUMMER: It’s time for chancellor Rishi Sunak to fire up the boosters By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:30 BST, 2 June 2020 | Updated: 23:21 BST, 2 June 2020 We are living through extraordinary times and the combination of Covid-19 and the lengthy lockdown make it hard to read too much … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Interim FCA boss Chris Woolard would boost his long-term job prospects by unveiling some post-Woodford reforms By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 1 June 2020 | Updated: 22:16 BST, 1 June 2020 The Financial Conduct Authority’s interim chief executive, Chris Woolard, is in overdrive. He has taken command of … Read more
Jennifer Lopez boards a private jet with fiancé Alex Rodriguez and their children as they jet out of Miami By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 22:02 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 22:52 BST, 31 May 2020 Jennifer Lopez and her beloved fiance Alex Rodriguez were seen departing Miami, Florida on Saturday, in a rather … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: No one can look at troubles inside the EU with any equanimity – it is the UK’s biggest trading partner and a critical market By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 As the world faces the deepest slump since the … Read more
Boris Johnson’s government has made many startling missteps as it has sought to manage the coronavirus pandemic. Some have been understandable; this is a new virus and the havoc wreaked, unprecedented. Others have been the result of incompetence or complacency. There is one ‘misstep’, however, that stands out as profoundly stupid. That‘s the decision to … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: China tightens the noose on Hong Kong with British firms in line to feel the squeeze By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 28 May 2020 The worst fears of Hong Kong’s richest person Li Ka-shing, proprietor of trading behemoth Hutchison, are being … Read more
Amid the constant tussle between commercial landlords and retailers it is the property owners who are often portrayed as villains. Traditional bugbears such as upward-only rent reviews play their part in this. But retailers also have had to contend with business rates, rises in the national living wage, challengers from overseas and online competition. This … Read more
Successive governments, since the Thatcher years, have lived in fear of the state taking stakes in troubled private sector firms. Northern Rock in 2007 and the financial crisis of 2008 changed that, when only the state was capable of preventing financial Armageddon. The allergy dates back to the Wilson governments of the 1960s and the … Read more
There is a terrific scene at the movie The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s brilliant book on the financial crisis, where the director Adam McKay imagines a different ending. Instead of the Wall Street bankers who caused the crash escaping to their luxury Florida villas and yachts, the FBI arrives on the trading floors … Read more
Jennifer Lopez, 50, shows off her rock-hard abs and incredible figure as she takes part in a gruelling workout with fiancé Alex Rodriguez By Jack Newman For Mailonline Published: 10:06 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 10:15 BST, 23 May 2020 It must be hard work maintaining her incredible figure. And Jennifer Lopez, 50, showed … Read more