MAGGIE PAGANO: The world of chip processing is moving so rapidly that promises from Nvidia over Arm’s future are meaningless unless legally binding By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 20 September 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 20 September 2020 Hermann Hauser was crystal clear when I spoke to him in New … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: If we can emerge from all this with a better educated, more resilient workforce, then this is good news for the future By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 19 September 2020 We cannot choose the moment to be born – or indeed … Read more
Boris Johnson’s government is all over the place on industrial policy. The capacity for indecision, obfuscation and zig-zags seen in the pandemic is just as pronounced when it comes to energy and technology. The retreat of Hitachi from a new nuclear plant at Wylfa in Anglesey, and continuing prevarication over EDF’s plans for a super-reactor … Read more
As the Chancellor who dusted off long-neglected plans to give the Bank of England independence, Gordon Brown deserves to be heard. But whether the middle of a pandemic is the right time for grand plans about changing the Bank’s remit is debateable. The Old Lady’s response to lockdown was immediate and bears no resemblance to … Read more
Scammers surely cannot believe their luck. A simple phone call is now all it takes to steal a pension saver’s life’s work. What’s more, as we reveal here, pension firms and financial regulators don’t have the power to intervene. And the police are not likely to investigate. It’s a win-win for fraudsters. It’s dreadful to … Read more
On the day when the future of British technology jewel ARM Holding is on the line, it is hard to get agitated by a Canadian bid for outsourcing group G4S. A succession of scandals since the London Olympics in 2012, when G4S came close to undermining a great celebration of the UK, left its reputation … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Britain – despite its chaotic response and high death count – has done more than any other to meet the challenge of coronavirus The two most effective treatments for Covid-19, which have brought down death rates and eased the damage to patients, are products of UK scientists The fight attracts World War II … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: This is not an argument for a punch-up with the European Union, but deal or no deal Brexit doesn’t really matter By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 12 September 2020 The trade row with Europe was always going to go to the … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Toxic mix of financial penalties handed out to drivers make me want to ditch my car By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 12 September 2020 | Updated: 22:20 BST, 12 September 2020 Driving a car is a necessity for most of us, either as a result of where … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: We need to take advantage of the flexibility of UK’s liberal capitalism, not put handcuffs on By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 BST, 11 September 2020 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 11 September 2020 There have been so few good moments for Britain’s pandemic and Brexit-afflicted economy that we should mark … Read more