ALEX BRUMMER: Reasons to be cheerful as Britain bounces back after three years of Brexit uncertainty By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 24 January 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 24 January 2020 After the sound and fury of the last three-and-a-half years, the Brexit bill became law this week when it … 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
There will be many changes for the worse when we finally creep out of lockdown and realise that the economy has gone into shrink mode. There will be fewer jobs to go to and some of the local businesses we once supported – cafes, restaurants, local bookshops – will no longer be there. Gone for … Read more
We have to get back to work – but the Government’s plan for how we should do so will only be part of the story. The key thing here is that the speed of the recovery matters much more than the depth of the slump. Last week, the Bank of England forecast that this year … Read more
Let’s use local shops and save our vital national champions, says boss of software giant Sage By Steve Hare For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:28 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 10:20 BST, 10 May 2020 Steve Hare is the chief executive of Sage The Covid-19 pandemic is, first and foremost, a human crisis. … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Simply loading up firms with loans, as is happening now, is not the answer to the coronavirus crisis By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 10 May 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 10 May 2020 What will happen to small firms once the immediate peril has passed? This is a … Read more
Paul Falvey is a tax partner at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO Paul Falvey is tax partner at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO. As we enter a time when lockdown may soon be eased, it is important to consider the groups in society that may be most affected by the long-term impact of … 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