HAMISH MCRAE: Quarantine does not pass the common sense test – the Government needs to listen to the travel and tourism industry By Hamish Mcrae For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:32 BST, 6 June 2020 | Updated: 22:32 BST, 6 June 2020 Please, please, please can we have some common sense about travel. We … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: Despite coronavirus pandemic, well-run enterprises in solidly-growing sectors will continue to prosper By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 30 May 2020 The world is slowly scrambling back to work. The sad story of the deaths from Covid-19 continues. The debate as to … Read more
We learned two things last week about the impact of Covid-19 on the nation’s finances. One was that the increase in the national debt is likely to be larger than even the pessimists expected. The other was that it will mostly be savers who will have to take on the burden of paying it off. … Read more
‘It’s really special to us’: Hamish Blake surprises his wife Zoe Foster Blake with a Lego themed gift – and reveals the reason why it’s so significant By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:06 BST, 18 May 2020 | Updated: 08:11 BST, 18 May 2020 He is the host of one of Nine’s … Read more
London is creeping back to work, but the scars will last a while. All giant cities will be damaged, for they are centres for the entertainment and hospitality industries as well as transport hubs. So New York and Paris will be damaged too. But there are troubling reasons to suspect that the London economy may … 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
‘I’m smashing this stuff!’ Hamish Blake compares home schooling to being in his own version of film Billy Madison By Kristy Johnson and Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 16:10 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 16:10 BST, 7 May 2020 Hamish Blake has been home schooling his five-year-old son Sonny, following school closures … Read more
‘Did they invent it?!’ Hamish Blake cheekily admits Lego Masters outright COPIED a ‘MasterChef trick’ used during an elimination challenge… so did you spot it? By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:48 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 00:48 BST, 5 May 2020 MasterChef Australia is a ratings juggernaut for Channel 10, so … Read more
The dividend drought has begun. For people who rely on dividends for their income, either directly or indirectly through their pensions, the past three or four weeks have been a catastrophe. Share prices may have clambered back some 20 per cent from their lows of March 23, when the FTSE100 index dipped below 5,000 – … 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