MIKE THATCHER | The disgraced bankers hauled in front of the Treasury select committee this week knew the role they had to play. They were to offer heartfelt apologies and then prepare for a...
MELISSA BENN | The tone was positively Churchillian: ‘Britain can beat this… just like we’ve beaten everything else this world has thrown at us. We’ll win by pulling together, not by facing the...
IAIN MACWHIRTER | When the Scottish opposition parties defeated the minority government’s budget, you would have expected them to push home their advantage, not rush to save both the Bill and the...
MIKE THATCHER | This week’s extreme ‘snow event’ temporarily distracted attention away from that other extraordinary and exceptional mishap – the complete meltdown of the economy.
MIKE THATCHER | Another week, another bail-out. But this time it was the car industry that benefited from a government desperate to be seen to be doing something as the economy collapses.
VICTORIA MACDONALD | At a recent lunch for journalists in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Alan Johnson joked that under the new NHS Constitution ‘the broccoli police’ would not be sent in to...
MIKE THATCHER | Many of the challenges to the US economy articulated so eloquently by Barack Obama in his inauguration speech could equally be applied to the UK.
The charges against International Financial Reporting Standards and International Public Sector Accounting Standards — that they produce confusing and even inaccurate accounts — are not entirely the...
MIKE THATCHER | The timing could have been better. Launching a social mobility white paper in the midst of what business leaders call a ‘frightening deterioration’ in the UK’s economic prospects...
