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    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      UK insurance industry
      Are reinsurers finally facing a reckoning?

      High prices for natural catastrophe cover are here — how long they stick could depend on climate risk appetite

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Coal
      Coal mine approval sends UK green credentials up in smoke

      Steel policy should focus on decarbonisation not fossil fuel mining

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      UK labour disputes
      Why private sector strikes are not all about the money

      Disputes at Royal Mail and the railways will not be solved with pay rises alone

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      Vodafone Group PLC
      Vodafone needs a radical new chief to bring about real change

      Ousting Nick Read is an overdue but insufficient step on the way to improving the telecoms company

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      UK universities
      Student housing is the bubble that won’t burst

      Budget squeezes are no match for a sector with a structural supply shortfall

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      Energy sector
      Missing: bright ideas for fixing Britain’s broken energy system

      Current turmoil justifies Ofgem focus on stability but it needs to start thinking longer term

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      The National Lottery
      National Lottery: how to gamble £600mn of public money

      What looked like lose-lose bet for Gambling Commission on a new operator might turn out OK

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Financial services
      The curious case of Britain’s ‘missing’ banking jobs

      Falling employment in financial services may add to City angst

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Property sector
      Homeowners are not the only ones hurt by the mortgage mess

      Generation rent is in the midst of an affordability squeeze

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Corporate governance
      British boards need to get over themselves

      Shareholder engagement can be improved — but directors cannot regard investors as an inconvenience

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      Batteries
      Britishvolt: the UK’s EV strategy can’t run on fumes

      Government support is needed for Britain’s battery sector — but not necessarily for this particular start-up

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      UK energy
      How not to fix the cost of living crisis

      Social tariffs are an option when energy support ends. But the government has to stop repeating mistakes from other sectors

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Made.com Design Ltd
      Made.com is the Covid trade come unstuck

      IPO price relied on assuming furniture retailer’s millennial market was exceptional and that pandemic trading was not

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      City of London
      Sunak and the City: business hopes for a twist-free sequel

      Financial services’ fall from favour may be an acceptable price to pay for stability

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      UK business & economy
      UK business now needs better than Liz Truss

      The government has been following the blueprint for a failing firm

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      UK equities
      Why UK shares will stay cheap

      A valuation gap is hard to close when investors hate all equities

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
      Investing in funds
      Is one of Britain’s biggest asset managers past repair?

      Abrdn is a victim of more than sectoral decline

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      UK tax
      How to make a mess of an energy windfall tax

      A cap on UK renewables revenues risks being both complex and underwhelming

    • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
      UK energy
      Truss’s obstinacy spells trouble for energy too

      Failure to ‘roll the pitch’ earlier on power conservation has made support scheme unnecessarily costly

    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      UK banks
      The jeopardy for banks in Kwarteng’s City chaos

      Rate rises should help large lenders, but the speed of economic unravelling complicates everything

    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      Legal services
      Wanted: fast-growth companies seek willingness to handle legal risk

      Challenges proliferate on all fronts when disruptive businesses expand

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Peter Cowgill
      The age of the retail kingpin is not over

      Peter Cowgill’s unusual exit deal from JD Sports shows the enduring power of the rag trade tycoon

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      Inside BusinessUK companies
      Britain’s ‘Big Four’ supermarkets have an Aldi problem

      Discounter and rival Lidl are to Tesco and co what Ryanair and easyJet were to British Airways

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      John Lewis Partnership PLC
      What John Lewis gets right about British shoppers

      Talk of the ‘moments economy’ is marketing guff but may serve the retailer well anyway

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Royal Mail PLC
      Royal Mail is in a royal mess

      A dissatisfied workforce is just one of many problems facing the UK’s postal service

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