how coronavirus is worsening Britain’s racial wealth gap
Since coronavirus hit Britain, black people and other ethnic minorities have been more likely than most to lose their income,...
Analysis
Big business builds its own apps to get staff back into offices
Big companies are building their own apps and taking other steps in a bid to get staff safely back to...
400 years of British economic history have been reduced to crass Marxist caricature
The history of imperialism is taught today as a catalogue of outrages but such a narrow focus is not illuminating....
Nationwide restricts mortgages over fears homeowners will plunge into negative equity
Nationwide, the country’s biggest building society, has restricted new mortgage lending over fears that falling house prices could send borrowers...
U-turn on penalty for 70,000 freelance mothers ‘unfairly’ left with less Covid-19 income support
Freelance mothers who were penalised and left with less state aid because they took time off to have children will...
France wants its tourists back
French companies face similar problems, but Znaty suggests that tax cuts could help mobilise private money for investment. “Enormous funds...
Coronavirus means women won’t earn as much as men for an extra 30 years
Women may have to wait almost a century until they earn the same as men as Covid-19 wreaks havoc with...
Older homeowners are being failed by poor equity release advice, warns City watchdog
Older and vulnerable homeowners are being lured into expensive equity release plans without being offered proper advice by some firms in...
As appetite for a thin EU trade deal grows, the City has the most to lose
Indeed, there is a sense in which politically it is no longer particularly important what is agreed, so long as...
Falling inflation may spark radical action from the Bank of England
It seems increasingly likely that the latter is the main result. George Buckley, economist at Nomura, lists four key reasons...
