When I went to university in Southampton in 1976 Whitbread became an important part of my life. They were the dominant local brewer. Whitbread has
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Simon Jenkins is a most irritating columnist, sometimes close to repugnant, and other times so sensible. And he writes well. Yesterday he was talking sense
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Watch here at about 42 minutes. Have Richard Curtis and Comic Relief not noticed tax justice campaigns? Extraordinary.

As the Guardian reported yesterday: Official figures showed that the UK’s net worth rose by £492bn between 2016 and 2017 to £10.2tn, with the lion’s share
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The problems within auditing in the UK (and I strongly suspect elsewhere) were highlighted yesterday when the fifth largest U.K. firm, Grant Thornton, was fined
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I will be one of hundreds of thousands of parents with a new sixth former this coming term. This morning we meet his new college to
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Officially I am on holiday this week. I don’t rate my chances of getting much time off. There is too much I want to do.
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I was asked recently to comment on a suggestion made to a friend of mine by a friend of theirs that socialism would always and
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The following  letter was published in The Guardian last night under the heading: If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered
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