City Comment: On a visit to one of the City’s big brokers, one of its star traders said his degree was in nuclear physics, and the desk had two other physicists, three electrical engineers and two chemists. All headed for the City because that was where the money was
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Elizabeth Sieff's family founded M&S, her uncle was shot by Carlos the Jackal and she has just invented a way to make the biggest luxury brands affordable. William Cash meets a shopping maverick who wants you to join her club... more
Almost 2000 steelworkers on Teesside are poised to lose their jobs as Corus, Britain’s biggest steelmaker, indicated today it is to mothball its Redcar plant... more
When I read about stress-testing for banks, I get a silly mental picture of Eric Daniels, Stephen Hester and John Varley sitting in the same room, each wired up to a blood-pressure machine and heart monitor
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Sainsbury's chairman Sir Philip Hampton has told the supermarkets chain he has to quit in order to devote more time to cleaning up Royal Bank of Scotland... more
London secondary head Aydin Onac runs one of Britain's best schools. Families fight for places and for an education that, he says, is the equivalent of one provided by private schools... more
When Ratan Tata's Indian steel behemoth won the £6 billion auction of Corus, it began what India's newspapers quickly began calling the Great Indian Takeaway
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Trinny Woodall and Johnny Elichaoff have held a series of crisis meetings in a desperate bid to salvage their nine-year marriage. They face, it seems, an uphill struggle. ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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