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Why there is this discord in Twitterland

03.11.09
A newspaper columnist and mentor of mine always gave short thrift to critics who asked how he would like to be on the receiving end of ill-informed opinion and knockabout abuse... more

Biggest bail-out ever for banks

03.11.09
Latest: Biggest bail-out yet of British banks agreed despite evidence that small firms are still being denied the credit they desperately need to survive the recession ... more

Anger over City bankers’ £5bn bonus bonanza

14.10.09
Bankers face fury over their bonuses as new figures showed they are in line for a £5 billion bonanza sparking public 'outrage' and 'revulsion'... more

Lib-Dems revolt at Cable's tax on £1million homes

22.09.09
Liberal Democrat leaders Nick Clegg and Vince Cable were hit with an open revolt against their radical tax and public spending plans... more

Osborne plays politics when City is in no mood for games

22.09.09
It’s a back-handed compliment for George Osborne. Both the Lib-Dems and Labour have identified the chancellor-in-waiting as a target for attack ... more

Osborne's 'only business experience is running the Bullingdon Club bar'

21.09.09
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A tax that takes the Lib-Dems backwards

21.09.09
The Liberal Democrat conference today is enlivened by a speech by the one member of the party’s front bench who registers on ordinary voters’ radar: Vince Cable, the party’s shadow chancellor... more

Crossrail not a key priority for us, warns Vince Cable

21.09.09
Crosrail's future was thrown into unprecedented doubt as its all-party support appeared to unravel... more

Lib-Dem supertax on £1million London homes

21.09.09
Latest: Queen and tens of thousands of Londoners would be hit by a planned Liberal Democrat tax on homes worth more than £1million... more

My wife works, has three children and a political husband. She has no time to Twitter

16.09.09
Interview: From his ‘suburban heaven’, Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg talks about marriage, bank bonuses and coalitions... more

Cap City wages and tax bonuses at 90%, Chancellor is told

17.08.09
Chancellor Alistair Darling was under pressure to introduce a 'maximum wage' in the City after he signalled new laws on bankers' bonuses... more

City Spy: Silence of the FSA’s lambasters

14.08.09
Quick to kick the Financial Services Authority over its new rules on bank bonuses were George Osborne and Vince Cable. They didn’t go far enough, fumed the politicians ... more

Banks should profit - but not at our expense

03.08.09
It is good news that two of the biggest banks are making money. But it is the performance of banks that got bailed out that should concern us... more

Only economists are unable to spot a bit of regal rhetoric

30.07.09
Are you talking to me or chewing a brick?” That was almost certainly the first time I came across a rhetorical question in the flesh. Of course, my fine education had already taught me what such a literary device was in theory ... more

There is a boom coming – but in China, not here

29.07.09
The first phase of the recession is coming to a close. Very soon we will have to face the really serious questions about whether and how we can recover... more

Tories vow to scrap FSA and give power to Bank of England

20.07.09
City faces a major shake-up in banking regulations as the Tories and Liberal Democrats unveil plans for reform... more

Who was best at seeing the worst?

30.04.09
The race to claim intellectual pre-emption of the credit crunch reached the final furlong this week.... more

Cable waiting in the wings as Darling fluffs his lines

23.02.09
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Vince, you are a prince of a politician

22.01.09
At the Electric Cinema, where Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch had invited le tout Notting Hill to watch Barack Obama's inauguration on the big screen, everyone started chattering when the poet came on... more

Come off it, Gordon, take over the big banks now

21.01.09
Vince Cable, the LibDems' Treasury spokesman, describes the latest raft of measures aimed at freeing up the supply of credit as being like "giving the kiss of life to a corpse" ... more

Bank fears send shares plunging

14.01.09
Fears that Britain’s banks remain in crisis led to a day of heavy losses on the stock market... more

Tens of thousands face pension cut in 2009 after blunder

16.12.08
Tens of thousands of retired public sector workers will see their income drop by hundreds of pounds from next year because of a pensions blunder, ministers admitted... more

City party's over - let's have a fat-cat clearout

20.10.08
Prosecco not champagne. God forbid, Twiglets instead of caviar. The years of excess are over a grim, new age has taken hold. Don't believe me? You still think Nicky Haslam's £200,000 bash last Thursday was typical? You're wrong... more

The fallout from the bank rescue

14.10.08
JUST as the markets appear to be stabilising in response to the banking bail-outs, there comes a rude reminder that out in the real economy, the situation is worsening. Inflation for September on the Consumer Prices Index rose to 5.2 per cent... more

Cable drops line on fuel levy

15.09.08
Vince Cable ditched part of his speech which praised Norway for increasing fuel by 20p a litre more than in Britain... more

Lib-Dem tax cuts worth £5bn to poor, says Hughes

15.09.08
The Liberal Democrats will promise tax cuts of about £5billion at the next election, the party's president bas signalled... more

We need a mortgage rescue plan for families, says Cable

27.08.08
Thousands of families are at risk of losing their homes in the credit crunch unless the Government steps in to help, the Liberal Democrats have warned... more

Homes crisis grows as orders for repossession rise by 25%

15.08.08
Soaring numbers of families face losing their homes after repossession orders jumped by a quarter... more

Production costs set to tip UK into 'stagflation'

09.06.08
The worst set of inflation data in a generation has left the British economy teetering on edge of recession... more

The Rocky horror show has changed the game

20.02.08
The fall-out from the nationalisation of Northern Rock has hit at Mr Brown's key claim to retain power - that he is a sound steward in troubled times ... more

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