Business
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
“Reputational risk” is rot
Business is obsessed by this pseudoscientific nonsense
Hellmann’s, humbug and chutzpah
Three cheers for hypocrisy in the Unilever boardroom
Calling time on closing times
Pubs should be allowed to stay open longer
The liturgy of ESG
Against the depoliticisation of contested values
Trans-corporate
For the CEO transitioners, womanhood was embraced sometime after the wife and the corner office
The rise and fall of an anti-capitalist café
What if — and I hope you’re sitting down — capitalism works better?
Don’t chuck money at foreign companies
It is wrong to hand public money to overseas firms to expand their UK operations
The haves and the have-yachts
How can we ensure our beleaguered CEOs receive the rewards they richly deserve?
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
