Banks have so far managed to avoid making themselves major villains in the pandemic. Unlike some insurers, which have tried to wriggle their way out of paying valid claims to small firms, they have been working with the Government to support business and families. Covid-19 has presented our High Street lenders with an opportunity to … Read more
What’s Bake Off without a double entendre! Prue Leith leaves viewers in hysterics after saying she was ‘worrying’ about one baker’s ‘very large nuts’ Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith left viewers howling with her comment Spoke about a baker’s ‘very large nuts’ while assessing florentines on the show Left cast and crew on … Read more
Eva Mendes penned a heartfelt message of love and support to Vanessa Bryant via the 38-year-old’s Instagram comment section on Tuesday. ‘I’ve always thought you were one of the most beautiful women ever. Then I met you and it was confirmed,’ began the 46-year-old actress, who left her comment under a photo Vanessa uploaded of herself and … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: A takeover by Royal London makes more sense for LV than selling to a private equity firm By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 29 September 2020 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 29 September 2020 Britain’s mutual financial groups are a much denuded sector. The board of LV, the former Liverpool … Read more
Money Mail has repeatedly raised the alarm about the hard-sell pressure tactics used by funeral firms to exploit grieving families. The competition watchdog was so concerned, it launched a review of the £2 billion-a-year sector in 2018 and, only last month, ordered firms to be more transparent. Yet an undercover investigation by the Telegraph has … Read more
Were it in a less toxic industry, there might be an outcry about the sale of William Hill to a foreign predator. After all, the company has been highly innovative. What a shame its advances are in the field of online gambling technology, which makes it trickier to argue it’s a great British business that … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: HSBC’s raison d’etre is international trade, which is being challenged by the US, China, Brexit and coronavirus – its woes hold up a worrying mirror to the world HSBC’s shares have fallen by 50 per cent since January to their lowest level for a quarter of a century If HSBC’s stability were to … Read more
When Boris Johnson dreamed as a boy of becoming ‘World King’, he must have thought that power would bring him pleasure. Now he knows that this is rarely so. His arrival in office was swiftly followed by a crisis that has offered nothing but hard choices, bad news and heavy responsibility. He is bowed down by … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: Creating conditions for growth is Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s way out of the current crisis By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 A winter chill swept through the markets and the economy last week. The package of support from Rishi Sunak … Read more
RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS: FCA wants to ban insurers from charging existing customers more than new ones – but they will keep trying to rip us off By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 26 September 2020 If you’re like me, you love the satisfaction … Read more