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A solution to the problem of maternity leave

16.10.09
After one of the City’s highest-flying women describes 12 months of maternity leave as “a nightmare” for employers, a writer and working mother offers her own “gender-friendly” solution to the problem... more

Police ‘still unfairly target black people’

22.07.09
Too many black people are still being stopped and searched by police in spite of significant progress to improve officers’ attitudes on race, MPs warn... more

Brown ducks MPs’ fire over more troops and helicopters

16.07.09
Gordon Brown refused four times to deny that the Army asked for 2,000 extra troops to fight in Afghanistan... more

City Spy: New MPC man is ready to rumble

16.07.09
Adam Posen, who joins the monetary policy committee at the Bank of England in September, admits he is not yet up to speed on the state of the UK economy and promises to put this right ... more

Treasury star faces tough balancing act to rebuild failed banks

15.07.09
John Kingman doesn't like the limelight. The chief executive of UK Financial Investments was once a Financial Times journalist, but he almost never gives interviews...... more

Joe Lewis intrigue over Alphameric

18.05.09
What is the canny but reclusive investor, Joe Lewis, up to in the racing world? ... more

Bye, Danny – the Bank was wrong to ignore you

05.05.09
Economic Analysis: "I felt very desperate, I felt very alone in many ways. Not a comfortable time for me.” David “Danny” Blanchflower summing up 2008 at the Bank of England ... more

When Myners saw McFall for a cosy chat...

30.04.09
How intriguing. Just what were City minister Lord Myners and Commons Treasury Select Committee chairman John McFall talking about so animatedly the other night? ... more

Where does Darling get his forecasts from?

23.04.09
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Lords should give Myners proper grilling

27.03.09
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Another mess, another report from Turner the intellectual troubleshooter

18.03.09
Profile: Today’s powerful dissection of the financial crisis by the boss of the FSA is par for the course for a man Government turns to in times of need... more

Why can't big shareholders join Goodwin in the stocks?

09.03.09
Sir Fred Goodwin, a friend of the ex-Royal Bank of Scotland chief said to me at the end of last week, is keeping his head down, thinking about what to do with the rest of his life... more

The bruiser handing out a battering to our greedy bank bosses

04.03.09
Treasury Select Committee chair John McFall is shrugging off the snipers as he earns his spurs tearing into those behind the financial crisis... more

Bail-out bankers will get their bonuses after all

12.02.09
The Government has given up its bid to stop bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland paying out bonuses to the dealers who brought it to its knees... more

Mayor 'changed his story four times over Damian Green's arrest'

11.02.09
Boris Johnson has been accused of changing his account of the arrest of Damian Green four times in an angry attack by a Commons committee... more

Ex-RBS boss holds up hands to ABN 'error'

10.02.09
Former Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Tom McKillop has admitted the takeover of ABN Amro was "a bad mistake"... more

Singer chief ‘warned against Iceland deal’

03.02.09
Banking: The former chief executive of Singer & Friedlander, which was sold to failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing in 2005, warned the Financial Services Authority not to allow the bank to go ahead with the takeover, a leaked memo says ... more

Angry MPs want some answers at City grilling

22.01.09
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Bailout may fail, say Tucker

21.01.09
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Banks in lending dilemma

04.12.08
The Bank of England's monetary policy committee has been deliberating again, not about whether interest rates will be cut but by how much... more

Now Brown is haunted by 'boom and bust'

27.10.08
Gordon Brown has always been good at hocus-pocus when it came to growth numbers... more

Unsteady HBOS could be facing full State takeover

14.10.08
Plans for the full-blown nationalisation of Halifax Bank of Scotland have been drafted by the Treasury amid fears that its merger with Lloyds TSB is in danger of falling apart... more

New data blunder as Home Office loses prisoners' details

22.08.08
Taxpayers could be facing a huge compensation bill after a contractor working for the Home Office lost a memory stick containing personal details of every prisoner in England and Wales... more

King calls for billions in bank guarantees

22.07.08
Mervyn King says banks should put "many billions" of pounds into a fund over the next 10 years to compensate customers in case of another Northern Rock collapse... more

100 children go missing from classes

12.03.08
Nearly 100 children are missing from school in London in areas where there is a high risk of forced marriage, new official figures have revealed... more

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