Pandora Papers, financial secrets of global elite exposed

Pandora Papers The latest Pandora papers exposes offshore dealings and secret financial documents of presidents, prime ministers and royalties. Thirty five current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.King of Jordan amassed £70m secret UK and US properties empire. Blairs saved…

Tory Conference: Boris pledges “Big, Bold decisions”

Boris Johnson has pledged the Conservatives will “change and improve” the economy after the pandemic, as the party opens its annual conference in Manchester. Boris Johnson said the country cannot “go back to how things were” before Covid and accused the haulage industry of being too reliant on low-paid immigration, and shortages at petrol station,…

CD&R to takeover Morrisons for £7bn

  Terry Leahy, the former CEO of Tesco, is the senior adviser to CD&R. The takeover has dragged on since June 2021 amid fierce competition from two US-based investment groups. CD&R’s victorious bid was announced by the Stock Market’s Takeover Panel on Saturday. CD&R offered 287p per Morrisons ordinary share, against a rival bid from…

Lost Levantine

Michael  Through Michael Vatikotis’s lenses Middle East’s unending conflict and violence, lost in the litany of perpetual strife and struggle  are the layers of culture and civilisation that accumulated over centuries. Middle East was once a region known poetically as the Levant  – a reference to the East , where the sun rose. Amid the…

Crumbling Red Wall

  A critical political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall crumbling  and an exploration of how, in the election of December 2019 a seismic switch to the Tories took place, from Sebastian Payne, Financial Times, Whitehall Editor and an award winning journalist. The red wall formed the foundation of…

Financial gulf of generations

Professor Bobby Duffy’s compelling book, reveals our preconceptions are just tired stereotypes by expressing when we’re born determines our attitudes to money, sex, religion, politics, and much else, informed by unique analysis of hundreds of studies. Duffy, formerly of polling company Ipsos Mori, now director of The Policy of Institute at King’s College, London, concludes…