RUTH SUNDERLAND: Solutions for our lives do not lie with an elite in Davos but within ourselves, and on our doorsteps By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 26 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 26 April 2020 By pulling out of Davos, investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen has lit the blue … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Students’ landlords need a lesson in fairness By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:15 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 25 April 2020 These are not good times for our universities with the latest research indicating that a majority of them will end up in the red next … Read more
People are getting back to work. The Government will update its guidance as to what we should and should not do, but already within the present guidelines more and more companies are opening up. But only some can. What business needs now is clarity. Construction is in the vanguard of the march back. Persimmon, the … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Challenge is going to be putting the borrowing and debt genie back in the bottle once it has been allowed to roam freely By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:54 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 24 April 2020 Days of shocking economic data topped off by the record … Read more
Damage done to Britain’s prosperity by the severity of the lockdown is terrifying. It has not been made any easier by the wilful destruction of the country’s smaller enterprises, which are the backbone of the economy, by the pathetically slow efforts of banks to get emergency loans out of the door and support output. Just … Read more
Richard Branson has touched a raw nerve with his £500million bailout request for Virgin Atlantic. He is portrayed as a tax-avoiding wastrel, living the high life in the Caribbean with a reputation for treating women carelessly. All this is true and the Virgin Money rescue of Northern Rock after the financial crisis cost the taxpayer … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: The internet has become a pandemic lifeline so we must be more vigilant than ever about online fraud By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 21 April 2020 For many of us feeling cut off from loved ones, tech-nology has proved to be … Read more
One could barely believe the reports when the May price for West Texas crude oil dipped into historic negative territory late on Monday. The immediate thought was: does this mean free petrol for my gas-guzzling car? And will all those friends who stealthily escaped to the country for lockdown, enjoy the munificence of free heating? … Read more
She’s never been afraid to speak her mind or defend herself to naysayers. And on Monday night, Jameela Jamil hit back at a critic who blasted her for ‘shaming other women’ with a sassy Photoshop and plastic surgery comment as the actress insisted: ‘Mollycoddling isn’t feminism!’ The online spat began when the Good Place star, … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Government must nurture Britain’s hi-tech start-ups for a future beyond pandemic and Brexit By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 20 April 2020 The latest public policy intervention to support R&D and start-ups through the worst of the Covid-19 crisis is the right … Read more