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Chris Blackhurst

@c_blackhurst

Chris Blackhurst is a renowned business journalist who has held senior positions across Fleet Street. He was the editor of The Independent from 2011 to 2013 and now writes on a wide range of business-related issues.

<p>This time, the firm is adding something extra: ‘Never Knowingly Undersold on quality, service & price’ </p>
Voices

Is John Lewis turning around its fortunes with this old favourite?

<p>‘In the end, it may prove inevitable’ </p>
Voices

After pensioners, will Labour come for the wealthy?

<p>Vicious cycle: a number of issues, including manufacturing and price point for video classes, didn’t bode well for the fitness company </p>
Business

How the man behind Peloton went from billionaire boom to bust

<p>David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse </p>
Business Comment

Why business leaders should read the Lady Macbeth guide to ambition

<p>The riots are symptomatic of much that is wrong with the country Labour has inherited </p>
Business Comment

The riots showed that governments can act quickly – but who will pay?

<p>Three men stole the work from a roof in Peckham </p>
Voices

Why the thieves who stole a Banksy may have made a huge mistake

<p>‘Rishi will regret cosying up to Musk now he’s become so toxic…’ </p>
Voices

Is this the end to the ‘bromance’ between Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk?

<p>Daniel Kretinsky has been nicknamed the ‘Czech Sphinx’ </p>
Business Comment

Should we be worried by Russian business links of Royal Mail buyer?

<p>‘I never knew him not to work – evenings, weekends, holidays, they did not apply where Kim was concerned’ </p>
Home News

Fearless, intrepid, dogged - Kim Sengupta never gave up on a story

<p>Rupert Murdoch </p>
Voices

Inside the Murdoch money battle tearing the family apart

<p>Just Stop Oil activists glue themselves to Constable’s ‘The Hay Wain’ in the National Gallery, after doctoring the bucolic landscape, in July 2022 </p>
Voices

Hasn’t Constable’s greatest painting been vandalised enough?

<p>Laughing all the way: Gary Lineker has been revealed as the top earner at the BBC for the seventh year in a row</p>
Voices

Give Gary Lineker a break and end the annual BBC salary horror show

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves and deputy PM and housing secretary Angela Rayner visit a construction project in London</p>
Business Comment

What the industry thinks of Starmer’s housing plans (it isn’t pretty)

Business Comment

What the industry thinks of Starmer’s housing plans (it isn’t pretty)

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<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves and deputy PM and housing secretary Angela Rayner visit a construction project in London</p>
<p>Passengers at Madrid’s Barajas airport were among those stranded by the global IT outage</p>
Voices

The global IT outage has revealed an uncomfortable truth

<p>‘Scenes from the three works that have most characterised the atmosphere in the City down the years – <em>Liar’s Poker, Wall Street</em> and <em>The Wolf of Wall Street</em> – were unerringly accurate’</p>
Voices

Barclays has introduced extraordinary measures to help those with ADHD

<p>Fans at BoxPark Wembley watch the semi-final against the Netherlands</p>
Business Comment

Could a Euros triumph boost our economy? If only it were that simple

<p>The company’s founder James Dyson was a prominent Brexiteer </p>
Voices

Why Labour should view the Dyson lay-offs as a warning shot

<p>The company’s founder James Dyson was a prominent Brexiteer </p>
Voices

Why Labour should view the Dyson lay-offs as a warning shot

<p>School leavers and graduates need more workplace skills, say top entrepreneurs </p>
Business Comment

School-leavers ‘all want to be Wolf of Wall Street’ say tech bosses

<p>The scale of Sir Keir Starmer’s triumph has provided certainty for investors </p>
Business Comment

Markets liked the election result. Can the economy only get better?

<p>A law firm has written to the Financial Conduct Authority detailing its concerns about Shein’s potential listing </p>
Business Comment

Why Shein could take the shine off of Labour’s business-first plans

<p>Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. With income tax in the territory set at zero, it’s attractive in all kinds of ways </p>
Business Comment

How has HMRC failed to fine a single ‘enabler’ of UK tax avoiders?

<p>Jen-hsun Huang in his trademark black leather jacket </p>
Business

Nvidia has become the world’s most valuable company – who’s behind it?

<p>Michael Gove searches for a mention of levelling up in the new Tory manifesto (it’s on page 72)</p>
Business Comment

It’s not just Brexit – there’s another unmentionable in this election

Brexit continued to be a dominant theme in politics in 2021 (Jonathan Brady/PA)
Business

Business leaders demand action to ease the pain of Brexit

<p>Up to his neck in... the water crisis: Ed Davey in Lake Windermere this week </p>
Business Comment

How our water crisis could be fixed – without costly nationalisation

<p>Michael Gove searches for a mention of levelling up in the new Tory manifesto (it’s on page 72)</p>
Business Comment

It’s not just Brexit – there’s another unmentionable in this election

Brexit continued to be a dominant theme in politics in 2021 (Jonathan Brady/PA)
Business

Business leaders demand action to ease the pain of Brexit

<p>Up to his neck in... the water crisis: Ed Davey in Lake Windermere this week </p>
Business Comment

How our water crisis could be fixed – without costly nationalisation

<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech during a visit to Rolls-Royce in Derby</p>
Voices

Will Rachel Reeves’ charm offensive with the City work for Labour?

Voices

Will Rachel Reeves’ charm offensive with the City work for Labour?

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<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech during a visit to Rolls-Royce in Derby</p>
<p>The business sector faces an exodus of companies if things don’t change </p>
Business

London’s existential crisis is its own doing – boosterism won’t help

<p>It’s a rich man’s world: turns out Abba were right on the money... </p>
Business Comment

Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US – why?

<p>The event was interpreted as a personal advertisement from Sunak, that when he departs No 10, he will want to work in tech, possibly, who knows, for Elon Musk himself </p>
Voices

Why is Rishi shying away from a battle with Big Tech?

<p>Shalini Khemka was made a CBE for services to entrepreneurship (E2E/PA)</p>
Business News

A celebration of Britain’s fastest-growing women-led businesses

<p>Shalini Khemka was made a CBE for services to entrepreneurship (E2E/PA)</p>
Business News

A celebration of Britain’s fastest-growing women-led businesses

<p>The hospitality industry is struggling without a steady stream of young staff </p>
Business Comment

Blocking a Brexit free-movement scheme is spiteful and unforgiveable

<p>That sinking feeling: the City spoke of Britain paying a ‘moron premium’ for the craziness caused by Liz Truss, </p>
UK Politics

Going for broke: the tragicomedy of Trussonomics

<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says a crackdown on tax avoidance could raise £5bn a year by the end of the next parliament </p>
Voices

Good luck closing tax loopholes – the rich will always find a way

<p>Nigel Farage at his birthday party with Aaron Banks and finger-flipping ex-minister Andrea Jenkyns </p>
Voices

Cheers, Nigel! Brexit pain gets worse – and shoppers pay the price

<p>Donald Trump during a press conference in New York this week</p>
Business Comment

Will Trump’s Truth Social flotation dig him out of a financial hole?

<p>Apple argues that people are free to purchase the smartphone of their choice </p>
Business Comment

Is Apple really ripping off its customers – and can anyone stop them?

<p>Sir Jim Ratcliffe at Old Trafford</p>
Sport

Ratcliffe needs to win on the pitch – not just the Man Utd PR battle

<p>Mark Zuckerberg has recently ditched $500m of Meta stock... and he’s not alone </p>
Business Comment

Why are billionaires selling off shares – and should you do the same?

<p>Investors must stop with the lip service and refrain from funding firms with a history of discriminatory behavior </p>
Business Comment

Why we must do more to tackle sexism in the boardroom

<p>Jacob Rothschild died earlier this week </p>
Business Comment

Rothschild instilled respect, fear and excitement

<p>Stuart Haire says ‘homes and money are vital for individual prosperity'</p>
Business News

Relax planning laws and build more homes, says building society chief

Business News

Relax planning laws and build more homes, says building society chief

<p>Stuart Haire says ‘homes and money are vital for individual prosperity'</p>
<p>Many people see the crisis in the NHS and are frustrated by those in charge refusing to fix the problems. Instead of solutions the government chooses obfuscation </p>
Business

Why I’ve had enough of performative public service posturing

<p>David Cameron was among those courting the attention of Bill Gates at Cop28 in Dubai </p>
Business Comment

Bill Gates is leaving us behind on green tech – it could cost us dear

<p>Kansas City Chiefs during the 2023 Super Bowl </p>
Sport

Why watching sport on television is about to shift forever

<p>Starmer’s reign in opposition has been characterised by woolliness, an unwillingness to commit – why would business be any different? </p>
Business Comment

Labour’s big plan for business? Even more talk

<p>Starmer’s reign in opposition has been characterised by woolliness, an unwillingness to commit – why would business be any different? </p>
Business Comment

Labour’s big plan for business? Even more talk

<p>Former subpostmistress Kathleen Crane (centre) outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London after judges quashed her fraud conviction</p>
Business Comment

The Post Office scandal shows the perils of putting our faith in IT

<p>The Congress Centre at Davos where the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum was held, 15 to 19 January</p>
Business

It’s shameful that Davos delegates ignored the Post Office scandal

<p>Birmingham’s HS2 station is still going ahead, with the construction site at Curzon Street</p>
Business Comment

A TV drama forced Sunak to act over the Post Office. Can HS2 be next?

<p>KPMG is one of the so-called ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms that between them earned 98 per cent of audit fees from FTSE 350 companies last year </p>
Business Comment

We need a regulator with teeth to control ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms

<p>As with our foreign policy, the commercial interests of the UK are being quietly subsumed into the US </p>
Business Comment

Companies are deserting the UK – where’s the vision to stem the flow?

<p>The highest-value euro banknote, the €500, became known as the ‘Bin Laden’, as it was popular with money-laundering terrorist organisations. It was phased out in 2016 </p>
Voices

As the euro reaches its 25th anniversary, is it now invincible?

<p>Foreign secretary Douglas Hurd, left, and prime minister John Major, centre, with Jacques Delors at the EC summit in Birmingham, in October 1992</p>
Voices

A single-minded visionary… and the UK’s public enemy number one

<p>Billionaire Richard Caring may be smiling, but many other restaurateurs are struggling just to keep their business open </p>
Business

Restaurant owners have too much on their plate

<p>Alison Rose left her job as Natwest CEO amid the furore over Nigel Farage having one of his bank accounts closed </p>
Business Comment

Everyone lost in the Coutts bank scandal... except Nigel Farage

<p>The London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market has come under fire for its performance</p>
Business Comment

London Stock Exchange’s AIM is a zombie market not fit for purpose

<p>Sellafield plant in Cumbria was formerly known as Windscale</p>
Business Comment

I pray the Sellafield nuclear leak fears are being taken seriously

Business Comment

I pray the Sellafield nuclear leak fears are being taken seriously

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<p>Sellafield plant in Cumbria was formerly known as Windscale</p>
<p>Mohamed Mansour describes himself as ‘one of the luckiest people on the planet’ </p>
Business

How waiter ‘Mo’ survived trauma to become a billionaire and Tory boss

<p>Israelis fleeing for their lives after gunmen opened fire at the Supernova festival</p>
Business News

Did someone in the City know what was going to happen on 7 October?

<p>Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued for promoting Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange </p>
Business Comment

Forget Cristiano’s crypto court woes, NFTs are here to stay

<p>Musk may soon discover to his cost that the world’s richest person still needs the little people</p>
Voices

Elon Musk’s ‘F*** you’ attitude may be the death of his empire

<p>Musk may soon discover to his cost that the world’s richest person still needs the little people</p>
Voices

Elon Musk’s ‘F*** you’ attitude may be the death of his empire

<p>A wildfire rages near Fort McMurray in Alberta in May 2016</p>
Business Comment

Sunak is putting Tory populism above the climate crisis. It’s shameful

<p>Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in Barbie, which was partly filmed in Watford and contributed £80m to the economy</p>
Voices

‘Barbie’ in the autumn statement? Yeah, I’m confused about that, too…

<p>John Lewis deliberately sets out to surprise with its Christmas ads... hence this year’s production centred on, of all things, a mischievous Venus flytrap</p>
Business Comment

The supermarket boss ignoring the Christmas TV ad race

<p>David Cameron back in Downing Street on Monday after being appointed Foreign Secretary</p>
UK Politics

David Cameron and the lobbying scandal that tarnishes his reputation

<p>Bankman-Fried leaves a Manhattan federal court in February</p>
Voices

How did ‘crypto king’ Sam Bankman-Fried get away with it for so long?

<p>Dominic Cummings, a former chief adviser to the prime minister, was accused of misogyny at the Covid inquiry this week</p>
Business

Blame the pale, male and stale club for Covid chaos and the 2008 crash

<p>The Glazers did not have the money but they had swooped in and borrowed and borrowed, using the club as security</p>
Football

Fear, fury and the Glazers: the battle for Manchester United’s soul

<p>The ONS has revealed the latest GDP data for July dropped by 0.5%</p>
Business Comment

Government is blind and stubborn when it comes to helping business

<p>What would Jim Hacker and his ingenious permanent secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, make of current Big Tech deals? </p>
Business

Call of duty? Why yes, prime minister

<p>Bernie Ecclestone arrives at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday </p>
Business Comment

Bernie Ecclestone fraud case shows HMRC must net the bigger fish

<p>‘Girls don’t realise or know that without maths, especially for many of the careers of the future, their options are severely limited’ </p>
Voices

Why maths for girls still isn’t adding up

<p>Prime minister Rishi Sunak delivers his keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference</p>
Business Comment

Businesses combed Sunak’s speech for good news. They searched in vain

<p>Customers queue to withdraw money from the Northern Rock Bank in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, in 2007 </p>
Business Comment

Don’t be surprised if there is another run on a UK bank

<p>Sharon White with Rishi Sunak</p>
Business Analysis & Features

Why change at the top might not be enough to save John Lewis

<p>Rishi Sunak’s political expediency is being made at the expense of trust </p>
Business Comment

If HS2 is scrapped, spare a thought for the victims no one talks about

<p>Traders will no longer have to provide paper forms of some key documents </p>
Business Comment

Buying or selling goods overseas? Pop those corks for a great new law

<p>Sharon White with Rishi Sunak</p>
Business Analysis & Features

Why change at the top might not be enough to save John Lewis

<p>Rishi Sunak’s political expediency is being made at the expense of trust </p>
Business Comment

If HS2 is scrapped, spare a thought for the victims no one talks about

<p>Traders will no longer have to provide paper forms of some key documents </p>
Business Comment

Buying or selling goods overseas? Pop those corks for a great new law

<p>Rupert Murdoch will retire as chairman of his Fox and News Corp businesses after almost seven decades at the helm of his sprawling media empire </p>
Business Comment

Murdoch has left the stage but not the building

<p>What Kwarteng put forward as chancellor made a lot of sense, it was the execution that was lamentable</p>
Business

It’s time we took a different view of the Kwarteng catastrophe

<p>While he was editor of <em>The Spectator</em>, Boris Johnson had a secret four-year affair with Petronella Wyatt, who was one of his columnists</p>
Voices

If philandering Boris was in business, he’d have been ousted years ago

<p>Kim Kardashian was among those who rushed to try the drug </p>
The Longer Read

The €400bn fat cat behind the Wegovy wonderdrug that helps Kim slim

<p>HSBC was fined $1.8bn (£1.4bn) for facilitating the laundering of money by the Mexican Sinaloa drugs cartel</p>
Voices

Economic crime is big business – and it’s your money they’re using

<p>Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen met this week to confirm the deal </p>
Voices

Why Rishi’s EU Horizon deal is a lifesaver for my mate Matt

<p>Karin Keller-Sutter, the Swiss finance minister, said that ‘Money laundering harms the economy and jeopardises confidence in the financial system’</p>
Business

Switzerland to clean up its dirty money? I’ll believe it when I see it

<p>Foreign secretary James Cleverly, left, and Chinese vice president Han Zheng meet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, 30 August </p>
Voices

Sinister threat or best friend? We must stop flip-flopping on China

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