[ad_1] Embarrassingly for Blanc, who by most accounts is a highly talented chief executive, she also happens to be a non-executive director of BP, which will presumably be bidding for…
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Going green was never going to be easy, now it’s doomed to fail
[ad_1] The end game is still far from clear, but much higher debt servicing costs make it ever more difficult to support a debt overhang of such magnitude. We can…
Why we need a recession to reset the British economy
[ad_1] The scale and speed of today’s rise in interest rates looks set to deliver precisely that. Past recessions have admittedly tended to be preceded by even fiercer monetary tightening. …
Ireland’s resurgence is setting an example for broke Britain
[ad_1] Ireland’s sorely remembered economic catastrophe during the eurozone’s sovereign debt and banking crisis of 2009-11 gives good reason for playing it safe. Once bitten, twice shy. Rewind to the…
Britain needs bold pension reforms – or we face more Thames Waters
[ad_1] This has created a void into which the “live money” of international finance has stepped, with Thames Water and many of our other public utilities leveraged to the hilt…
Stubborn inflation is tipping the Tories’ finances into crisis alongside mortgage holders
[ad_1] For now, Labour is riding high in the polls, but to the extent that its policy agenda is materially different from the incumbents – which is barely – it…
The media’s unrelenting gloom ignores this year’s great success story
[ad_1] All this is no doubt too little too late to save the Government from electoral drubbing. Yet on the basis that the longer Downing Street leaves it, the better…