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London's new influentials

10.11.09
'The 1000' - the Standard's list of the capital's top movers and shakers - is out tomorrow. Here's a preview of 25 bright sparks who make this year's selection for the first time... more

Why women have to make it on their own

20.10.09
Rather like women's football, the "female Davos" women's economic forum in Deauville has gone widely unnoticed... more

Skis at the ready for the new season

14.10.09
The recession has hit hard but the top resorts are still a hive of activity... more

Politicians must stop passing the buck and take the blame

12.10.09
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How long can the City stay a world-beater?

09.10.09
Britain has overtaken the United States in a survey of the world’s leading financial centres — but in part because the financial sector here is so large relative to the rest of the economy... more

Courts are flooded with credit crunch legal action

07.09.09
A cascade of credit crunch-related lawsuits lodged by or against banks are leading lawyers to complain of delays of up to three months to book a trial... more

Stephanie Flanders: How I juggle a dream job, world financial crisis and motherhood

20.05.09
You can sense that Stephanie Flanders does not suffer fools gladly. Colleagues describe her as imperious and scary. She doesn't like clichés much either. "The phrase 'green shoots' is the bane of my life," she says, wrinkling her nose ... more

Squeals of horror from the stalls as Chancellor plays pantomime villain

22.04.09
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Now City of London Corp gets political

09.02.09
So Labour is to put up candidates for the City of London Corporation elections. Labour says it wants to "highlight what is wrong with the established governance of the City of London, and how its largely unaccountable leaders have brought Britain to recession"... more

Now, come on, Mandy, let’s be honest...

03.02.09
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There's only one way to make bankers listen to their critics

02.02.09
The reputation of bankers is at an all-time low and still they ignore the lessons of the crisis. We now need extreme measures to restore confidence... more

British jobs, yes, but there has to be a better way

02.02.09
Gordon Brown may have boobed in 2007 with "British jobs for British workers". But in 2009, his view that "protectionism protects nobody" is spot-on... more

Cameron tells bankers: Adopt moral capitalism

30.01.09
David Cameron tells the world's most powerful bankers and business leaders they must embrace "moral capitalism"... more

Pacific’s dodgy dealings worthy of Hollywood

30.01.09
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Losing faith in Brown's answers

30.01.09
Gordon Brown speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos today amid further signs of the economic and political damage wreaked by the recession... more

Brown: Can't talk now, I'm at Davos

30.01.09
Gordon Brown suffered embarrassment when his mobile phone rang as he delivered a speech at the Davos summit... more

Now feel our anger: make these toxic bankers pay

30.01.09
Every conversation about the recession I have with friends these days ends up with someone expressing not just helpless fury against the bankers who have damaged the world's financial system so much in such a short time but a vehement wish to see them made to pay for what they have done... more

When your reputation is online...

30.01.09
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Brown's 'jobs for Britain' row

30.01.09
A wave of Seventies-style wildcat strikes broke out across Britain in protest at foreign workers taking jobs... more

Please Mandy, let’s not say Tata to another £2.3 billion

29.01.09
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World’s bosses’ woe

28.01.09
Economics: Confidence among business leaders at companies attending the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland has dived to fresh lows... more

Sir Paul starts well

28.01.09
Today London has a new police chief: Sir Paul Stephenson has been named as the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner... more

Hold the Krug as Davos hosts last hurrah for money men

27.01.09
Economics: As the world’s richest and most powerful executives fly out to the luxury Alpine resort of Davos, the hotels and restaurants hosting their glittering parties and dinners are braced for chill economic winds... more

Fred the Shred is wheeled out for Formula 1

27.01.09
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Diamond and Agius to host Davos dinner

26.01.09
Davos: Barclays execs were today set to press ahead with glittering Davos event despite sense of crisis engulfing the bank ... more

British bank chiefs jet to Davos summit

26.01.09
Seven of Britain's most senior bankers are flying to the Davos economic summit renowned for its extravagant dinners and parties... more

Darling: We are far from through this recession

07.01.09
Alistair Darling has admitted the recession is "far from through" and signalled dramatic new measures to promote recovery... more

Bono - up close and horrible

04.03.08
The very act of entering the cinema and donning 3-D specs to watch U2 3D made critic Richard Godwin want to spoon his eyes out in protest.... more

Creative Britannia ... costume college and 5,000 arts apprentices

22.02.08
Thousands of "cultural" apprenticeships will be created as part of plans to bring Britain's creative industries into the mainstream... more

Brown's plan to make Britannia cool again

12.02.08
London will get a national film centre and a permanent home for its fashion week under Gordon Brown's plans to revive the "Cool Britannia" spirit of new Labour... more

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