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Greenbury heads for clash with son over bank bonus

06.04.09
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Sir Richard Greenbury, the old Marks & Spencer warhorse, next meets his son, Adam, a director of Rothschilds.... more

S&P recovery could be Slow & Protracted

01.04.09
Have credit-crunched stock markets reached the bottom and started heading up? Maybe, but it could be a long time before the losses sustained since last October are recouped. ... more

The cost of Sir Fred's toxic waste

26.02.09
The furore over the £650,000 annual pension package drawn by Sir Fred Goodwin, former boss of RBS, would be perfectly justified at any time after the bank's taxpayer bailout... more

Booming voices in Doctor Atomic

26.02.09
John Adams's latest opera Doctor Atomic has a savage beauty and explosive climax, leaving questions open.... more

Revealed: Magic Madoff’s family ‘piggy bank’ in the heart of Mayfair

16.12.08
Amid the $50bn fallout from the world’s biggest scam, how millions were stashed away in London ... more

British banks lose £1billion in Wall Street fraud

15.12.08
British banks and investors have lost billions in the world's biggest fraud, it has been revealed... more

Blowing cold in the Lords on windpower

26.11.08
Building thousands of turbines to meet Britain's renewable energy commitments by 2020 is likely to be a disaster... more

Donatella Flick is real maestro

01.10.08
Donatella Flick has little time for the BBC's reality show — her £15,000 competition for young talent, takes conducting seriously.... more

Don Carlo takes opera to the people

03.07.08
Don Carlo at Covent Garden is the hot opera ticket of the summer - an impassioned production, full of starry names.... more

A chorus of disapproval

06.11.07
ENO artistic director John Berry has faced harsh criticism for the manner in which he was appointed and his repertoire.... more

Sex and death in Italy

30.07.07
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Access all arias

22.05.07
The Royal Opera House's free, open-air screenings of ballet and opera have become essential events. This summer there are a trio of classics to choose from.... more

Here's how to do it, Britney

02.03.07
Stockholm singer Robin Carlsson could teach Britney Spears a thing or two about how to emerge gracefully from a teenage pop career, says David Smyth.... more

Geisha with a fiery flutter

26.02.07
There has been much debate about whether Madam Butterfly is racist or not but no one watching this production at the Royal Albert Hall could mistake where Puccini's sympathies lay. ... more

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