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Viewpoint column

29 May 2024

  • A man in a hi-vis jacket looks up at a Royal Mail logo and insignia on a warehouse

    Royal Mail’s foreign sale could put a 500-year-old national service in jeopardy

    Phillip Inman
    Czech tycoon’s private buyout of UK postal group would come with very limited assurances – and a weight of added debt

27 February 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    A quiet conspiracy is afoot to give FTSE 100 executives a pay rise

    Nils Pratley
    As the London market’s woes are blamed on remuneration, a new US benchmark is emerging

8 December 2023

  • Nils Pratley

    Be glad UK’s watchdog has its eyes on what just happened at OpenAI

    Nils Pratley
    Failures in the regulation of social media companies a generation ago must not be repeated

30 July 2023

  • Larry Elliott

    We bailed out the banks but we’re not prepared to bail out the planet

    Larry Elliott
    US and UK must use financial firepower of the state to put economies on a saner course

10 April 2023

  • A view of the central business district of Beijing, China, during a dust storm and heavy pollution in March 2023.

    Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time – bigger than Covid

    Pascal Soriot
    As toll on public health and global economy rises, radical action is needed on greenhouse gas emissions

2 January 2023

  • Nestle's logo is displayed on a window

    Bumper profits at KitKat maker Nestlé? They should give consumers a break

    Phillip Inman
    Workers and consumers are paying for the cost of living crisis, through product price rises and stagnant wages – shareholders, it seems, are not

27 October 2022

  • A Flotel, the Borgholm Dolphin, is towed past the Nigg Oil Terminal, in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland

    As invasion of Ukraine continues, western nations need to tax war profiteers’ windfalls

    Phillip Inman
    Households and businesses hit by higher prices caused by the conflict should be helped by companies that have benefited

25 October 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Sunak should delay Halloween fiscal plan – the government needs time to think

    Larry Elliott
    New PM has himself made case for longer period of reflection, citing ‘difficult decisions’ ahead

24 October 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Only way is up for Rishi Sunak after disaster of Liz Truss

    Larry Elliott
    Incoming PM can take a cautious approach with the Tories’ reputation at rock bottom, but he cannot afford mistakes

18 September 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    After the mourning, Truss and Kwarteng could find themselves on a sticky wicket

    Larry Elliott
    Britain’s problems are not high taxation or overregulation but poor growth caused by low investment

28 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Europe has little option but to rescue consumers from the energy crisis

    Larry Elliott
    With no end to Ukraine war in sight and transition away from Russian gas ongoing, scale of support will have to be massive

11 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Britain is sliding towards an energy precipice. So where are its leaders?

    Larry Elliott
    Gordon Brown’s solutions highlight a vacuum that extends beyond the Tories and to the party he once led

10 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Britain’s crises have one thing in common: a failure to invest

    Larry Elliott
    Obsession with efficiency means infrastructure has been run into the ground rather than upgraded

9 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Government needs a big-bang solution or faces consequences of rising energy bills

    Larry Elliott
    New prime minister must drop small state rhetoric and come up with response to impending crisis

8 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Truss and Sunak still haven’t grasped the magnitude of Britain’s cost of living crisis

    Larry Elliott
    Neither has an adequate plan – but a joint announcement of a generous package of help would boost confidence

7 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Fading global cooperation will make this crisis worse than the recession of 2008

    Larry Elliott
    The global financial crisis brought large economies together but the current crisis comes at a time of deep division

3 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Pelosi’s Taiwan trip could have significant consequences for global economy

    Larry Elliott
    Rising tensions between US and China threaten to accelerate decoupling of world’s two biggest economies

2 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Will Sunak or Truss make booming oil and gas firms pay to help consumers?

    Larry Elliott
    Energy companies have done themselves few favours by helping investors as they benefit from soaring prices

1 August 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Shapeshifting Sunak’s tax-cutting conversion risks overpromising

    Larry Elliott
    Former chancellor takes leaf out of rival Liz Truss’s book but his plans may be too good to be true

24 July 2022

  • Larry Elliott

    Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Whoever wins faces a bleak economic outlook

    Larry Elliott
    Inflation and a cost of living crisis mean the new PM will have little time to produce a feelgood factor
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