Hubris

ANDREW PIERCE: From hubris to humiliation… an anatomy of a political shambles 

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Fiasco doesn’t begin to do it justice. Perhaps omnishambles – a word first coined in the BBC political satire The Thick of It – comes a little closer. Or given the PM’s reliance on his trusted henchman Dominic Cummings to read the political runes, should it be Domnishambles? In reality, the events presided over by … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Hubris of harmful deals

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Retail never leaves the spotlight at present. The coronavirus always was going to highlight the corporate blunders of the past.  Dixons Carphone is doubtless speaking the truth when it says that its ruthless decision to close all 531 Carphone stores was not virus-related.  But one has to ask whether chief executive Alex Baldock would have … Read more