RUTH SUNDERLAND: This is one of mankind’s darkest moments and we need nations to come together

RUTH SUNDERLAND: This is one of mankind’s darkest moments and we need nations to come together in a spirit of generosity By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 12 April 2020 This column should be coming to you from Washington DC, where the Spring meetings … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Don’t turn Britain into a dividend desert

Logical thinking is one of the first casualties in situations of great stress, which must be the explanation for the way dividends are being demonised in the pandemic. An idea has taken hold that companies must take an axe to executive pay and to dividends as if the two could be bundled together under the … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Don’t turn Britain into a dividend desert

Logical thinking is one of the first casualties in situations of great stress, which must be the explanation for the way dividends are being demonised in the pandemic. An idea has taken hold that companies must take an axe to executive pay and to dividends as if the two could be bundled together under the … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus could be the catalyst to a far fairer and better-functioning economy

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus could be the catalyst to a far fairer and better-functioning economy By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 5 April 2020 Right now, with the virus death toll mounting and millions of us fearful for our jobs and businesses, it is very … Read more

Why voiding the Premier League and EFL seasons would cause chaos amid coronavirus pandemic

Everything around football is up in the air. The season has been suspended for weeks and it is unclear when – and if – it might return. As time goes on, there are more voices calling for the campaign to be called off amid the coronavirus crisis. They do not seem to factor in the … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Save the airlines but don’t let tycoons profit

The airline industry can be accused of many sins.  It is infested with brassy billionaires, such as the avaricious Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of EasyJet, and the egregious Sir Richard Branson.  It is responsible for pollution that is poisoning the planet.  Customer service is sometimes woeful and industrial relations, wherever the main fault lies, … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: A baptism of fire for Britain’s financial big guns

How sobering to reflect that, as we enter one of the worst financial disasters this country has ever known, the two men in charge of saving the economy have been in their jobs for less than two months between them.  Rishi Sunak stepped over the threshold of Number 11 in the middle of February. Andrew … Read more

Nissan mothballs UK’s biggest car plant: Sunderland factory employs some 6,000 workers  

Nissan mothballs UK biggest car plant: Sunderland factory employs some 6,000 workers By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 | Updated: 01:08 GMT, 18 March 2020 Nissan has mothballed the biggest car plant in the UK as the Covid-19 outbreak wreaks havoc.  Production at the giant factory in Sunderland, … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus raises the potentially explosive problem of dodgy corporate debt

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus raises the potentially explosive problem of dodgy corporate debt By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 15 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 15 March 2020 Charting the right economic course through the coronavirus is almost as difficult as calibrating the right medical response. The two, of course, are … Read more