ALEX BRUMMER: Government should follow Unilever’s fine example and do more to help India fight Covid By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:55 BST, 29 April 2021 | Updated: 23:13 BST, 29 April 2021 Chief executives prefer to look through the social circumstances in the countries in which they operate. So it is … Read more
Biden’s assault on wealth: US president plans to tax the rich to fund public spending and Britain might just copy him, says ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 28 April 2021 | Updated: 22:49 BST, 28 April 2021 Joe Biden is a US president in a hurry. His effort … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: MPs wake up to Gupta and what may be the greatest business debacle of the decade By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 23:19 BST, 27 April 2021 | Updated: 23:38 BST, 27 April 2021 With a former Tory prime minister at the heart of a scandal and Conservatives dominating the House … Read more
Amid the ocean of corporate profiteering and cronyism during the Covid pandemic over PPE, ventilators, oxygen supplies, and test and trace schemes, AstraZeneca stands out from the crowd. Together with scientists from the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, the Anglo-Swedish firm and its staff are among the true heroes in the battle to … Read more
Amid the ocean of corporate profiteering and cronyism during the Covid pandemic over PPE, ventilators, oxygen supplies, and test and trace schemes, AstraZeneca stands out from the crowd. Together with scientists from the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, the Anglo-Swedish firm and its staff are among the true heroes in the battle to … Read more
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, proclaims Proverbs. Since the 2017 merger of Martin Gilbert’s Aberdeen Asset Management and the dowager of Scottish insurance, Standard Life, the two firms have contrived to damage both titles. The idea that the group’s new identity Abrdn will have financial advisers up and down … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: As Covid spending retreats, calls for new taxes, beyond those in Budget, should be resisted – that would keep boosters burning The dreadful state of the public finances and the coiled spring of economic activity are two sides of the same coin Had Rishi Sunak not bolstered the UK economy through Covid then … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Bank of England in murky waters over its failure to act earlier on intelligence about Greensill By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 23:02 BST, 22 April 2021 | Updated: 23:02 BST, 22 April 2021 Andrew Bailey has the rare skill of turning the specific into the general. At a Commons session … Read more
Enforcers in the spotlight: How could the FCA and the Bank of England fail to see the Greensill collapse coming? asks ALEX BRUMMER By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:07 BST, 20 April 2021 | Updated: 22:07 BST, 20 April 2021 Better late than never. Having at first declined to hold hearings on … Read more
The loud protests by the football establishment over the proposed European Super League are not surprising. The Premier League, Fifa, Uefa and other objectors have enjoyed the fruits of the big bucks for too long, and hate the idea of a commercial challenger breaking up the oligopoly. Existing forces in the game have failed to … Read more