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  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Inside BusinessUK politics & policy
    Britain’s necessary but insufficient battle on modern slavery

    Until groups have more reason to worry about supply chains, the gap between words and deeds will be large

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    Buyouts may be bad for your health

    Capitalism on steroids does not suit sectors such as social care where outcomes are opaque and subsidies are rife

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    Inside BusinessGrenfell Tower disaster
    Grenfell shows the shallowness of business ethics

    Having created a dangerous problem, those responsible must be forced to clean it up

  • Sunday, 13 December, 2020
    Inside BusinessSpecial purpose acquisition companies
    Spacs are oven-ready deals you should leave on the shelf

    Complex structures and high fees mean many of these speculative vehicles will disappoint

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    FT SeriesFuture of the City 
    Future of the City: how London’s reach will shrink after Brexit

    In the first of a series, Jonathan Ford explores the history of a financial powerhouse and the potential impact of leaving the EU

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    Inside BusinessEnvironment
    Jobs are the wrong metric to judge a ‘Green Industrial Revolution’

    Boris Johnson’s 10-point plan is long on wishful thinking and dubious economics

  • Sunday, 22 November, 2020
    Inside BusinessUK local government finance
    Local authorities need to be weaned off their debt addiction

    UK government has fuelled councils’ bad incentives to gamble on commercial assets

  • Sunday, 15 November, 2020
    Inside BusinessCapital gains tax
    Carried interest is pure fiscal ‘cakeism’

    If buyout groups want their profits taxed as capital gains, they should put capital at risk

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Nuclear energy
    US consortium revives plan for Welsh nuclear power plant

    Companies led by Bechtel approach government about building reactor on Anglesey

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  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Inside BusinessESG investing
    Ethical investment is about morals not markets

    The case for helping the environment or improving diversity should not depend on high returns

  • Sunday, 25 October, 2020
    Inside BusinessPensions
    Pension buyouts carry needless credit risks

    Schemes are making ultra-cheap, unsecured, long-term loans to insurers with their members’ savings

  • Sunday, 18 October, 2020
    Inside BusinessInvesting in funds
    The costly fallacy of ‘asset class’ investment

    Too many fund managers and alternative holdings are bad for pension beneficiaries

  • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
    UK energy
    The big challenge facing small nuclear reactors

    Making them cost competitive requires a new approach to constructing plants

  • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    The UK’s aviation towns reel from the downturn in flights

    Slough, close to Heathrow, has witnessed a sharp rise in claims for unemployment benefits

  • Sunday, 20 September, 2020
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    Investors need to lift the lid on private equity

    Level of secrecy within the industry helps no one but the insiders

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    ReviewScience books
    Are cooler heads needed on climate change?

    Two controversial authors take aim at the scare stories — and puncture a few myths on the way

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    Nuclear energy
    Repetition is the key to cutting nuclear costs, not innovation

    The route to improvement is through building large ‘cookie-cutter’ fleets

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    Inside BusinessRenewable energy
    Green power needs to account for all its costs

    UK study shows weather dependent electricity generation has significant hidden expenses

  • Sunday, 30 August, 2020
    Private equity
    Private equity fees have become a rentier’s bonanza

    Clever financiers have made a mockery of the original buyout model

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    LombardRio Tinto PLC
    Accountability for Rio’s destructive actions should start at top

    Warm words on ESG look empty after dynamiting of Aboriginal sites; JD Wetherspoon looks lively

  • Sunday, 23 August, 2020
    Inside BusinessRenewable energy
    Green ambition has short-circuited California’s power supply

    Approaching energy transition piecemeal can expose system’s fragility and lead to higher prices

  • Monday, 17 August, 2020
    LombardPrivate equity
    Softening Covid loan terms for private equity has a political cost

    Taxpayers will scrutinise changes closely; why bad debts don’t mean the end of energy competition

  • Monday, 17 August, 2020
    Inside BusinessUK energy
    Green power needs to be dense power

    Decarbonisation requires whole-system outcomes with technologies that are scalable 

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    News in-depthUK energy
    China tensions raise doubts over UK nuclear projects

    After Huawei’s ban, rebel Tory MPs turn their sights on CGN and its plans to build a new plant

  • Sunday, 26 July, 2020
    Inside BusinessPrivate equity
    The parallel universe of private equity returns

    If IRR metrics had any sound basis in fact, we would all be as rich as Croesus

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