VICTORIA BISCHOFF: It’s time for travel and events firms to start playing fair on refunds By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 6 April 2021 At the start of the first lockdown, we urged readers to be patient and not to chase refunds. Businesses had … Read more
Joe Biden is riding a wave of optimism following the passage of his $1.9trillion (£1.4trillion) fiscal package. There may be more to come should the White House manage to steer proposals for a further £1.44trillion of climate change and infrastructure spending through a Congress jittery about debt levels. As the International Monetary Fund’s spring World … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Might there be a baby bounce-back when the coronavirus is vanquished? Let’s hope so for all our sakes Deaths from Covid have taken a grim toll, with 2.8million fatalities worldwide But the more profound demographic – and economic – effect is likely to come from births, or rather the lack of them We … Read more
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Easter’s greatest gift: the real hope that our ordeal is almost over By Mail on Sunday Comment for the Daily Mail Published: 00:31 BST, 4 April 2021 | Updated: 00:32 BST, 4 April 2021 If we had known a year ago what Britain and the world were about to go through, … Read more
This Eastertide is not yet as joyful as we all hoped it would be even a few weeks ago, and the past year has been joyless indeed. The lockdown may be easing, but achingly slowly. However, Easter is a time for reflection as well as celebration, so that gives us a little more time to … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: The only way this country is going to get back on its feet is through the wheels of commerce clicking back into overdrive By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 3 April 2021 It was fantastic to do a Boris Johnson last … Read more
Tottering steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta vowed yesterday that no UK steel plants will close on his watch. His resolve is commendable, but his options are limited. The problem for Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and the Government is what to do about Gupta’s Liberty Steel plants. Kwarteng has already – quite rightly – turned down a … Read more
The packed scenes in parks and the latest data on GDP tell us the same thing: there is a huge amount of pent-up demand in the economy. People are desperate to get their pre-Covid lives back and they will be spending in pubs, restaurants and shops the minute they are allowed. Many can afford to … Read more
Compare and contrast. Two high-profile floats in London: one a takeaway food business, shunned by several big investors because of its reliance on gig economy riders, the other an Oxford University spinout run by super-brains in lab coats. The cultural gulf could not be wider between Deliveroo and Oxford Nanopore, the biotech business that yesterday … Read more
Boris Johnson is said to be taking a personal interest in the fate of Liberty Steel, the empire run by Sanjeev Gupta which is on the brink following the collapse of financial backer Greensill Capital. And so he should. The future of Liberty is the first serious test of his ambition to ‘level up’ the … Read more