Simon Caulkin

Scare stories about an exodus of the rich have from the UK have abounded under the Labour government. But should we care? The evidence from the US leaves little doubt – far from being an asset, the ultra-rich are now a clear and present menace to democracy.

Surveillance capitalism is the expression of today’s digital technology, its ugly consequences the product of the collecting and trading of our intimate personal data.

The closure of the UK’s High Pay Centre is more sinister than it looks. Not just a hard luck tale, it reflects very British meekness in the face of Trump’s anti-woke business agenda.

No one could have forseen in 1976 that 50 years later Apple would be one of the largest and most feted companies in the world. Not least of its strengths is the personal bond it has maintained with its customers.

Trump’s anti-diversity crusade and the ‘remasculinisation’ of the workplace make for tough times for America’s top corporate women The cannier ones are abandoning the manosphere for the entrepreneurial periphery where they can be, and are, strikingly successful on their own terms.

Containing many of the ingredients of a surging modern economy, why does the UK’s so conspicuously fail to add up to the sum of its parts? Blame form over substance, talk over deed, and management that too often consumes the energy it ought to be creating

Shocking enough in itself, the fiasco of the UK’s high-speed rail showcase may derail essential infrastructure projects for years ahead

The UK’s inability to speak other languages shapes its politics and economy in all manner of damaging ways.

The CMA will soon put foward proposals to make the market for vet services more competitive. But Big Vet won’t easily change its spots.

Handy’s last book, The View from Ninety, is a moving epilogue to a long and well-lived life.