George Trefgarne



Profile:
Full name: George Trefgarne

Area of interest: Business and Finance

Journals: (formerly) The Sunday Telegraph ; The Daily Telegraph

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Website/blog: GeorgeTrefgarne.com (dormant site)

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Career: The Daily Telegraph: economics editor, comment editor, 1996/2006 • The Sunday Telegraph: city editor, 2006 - see Trefgarne departs Sunday Telegraph • joined the London press office of British Petroleum (BP): director of media and research - reporting to senior vice-president, Roddy Kennedy - wrote speeches for Lord Browne, their former chief executive • wrote a financial column for The Daily Mail, 2006, and contributes to the Spectator

Current position Director of media and research, BP

Viewpoints/Insight: Conservative Home - platform: The Left cannot be allowed to dominate the debate on Iraq, 2006

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Books: OFCOM is watching you (London: Centre for Policy Studies, 2001) OCLC 46651646

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Other: Married to Camilla D'Arcy-Irvine, curator of the Jerwood Sculpture Park

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The Sunday Telegraph:

 * regular column ceased in 2006

Column remit: City companies and finance

Section: City

Role: City Editor

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Email: cityeditor@telegraph.co.uk

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Day published: Sunday

Regularity: Weekly

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All Articles:

 * money is a game with potentially dangerous results'' - In just a few weeks, at its meeting in February, the Bank of England's monetary policy committee has to decide whether to continue with quantative easing - 30th December 2009
 * new age of cheap energy approaches'' - A drop in fuel bills is a timely, if temporary, respite from economic gloom - 28th August 2009
 * I fear Alliance is forgetting its famously thrifty ways - Investment trusts - 15th August 2007
 * Don't believe Labour: inflation is back - Economic stability - 28th July 2006
 * Chancellor is pulling the Bank's strings - Independence of the Bank of England - 23rd June 2006
 * The Kremlin has us over a barrel - Russian state oil company Rosneft - 4th June 2006]
 * Young Murdoch's eye is on the ball - James Murdoch - 7th May 2006
 * Royal Mail must deliver privatisation - Royal Mail - 30th April 2006
 * This Spruce Goose is Johnson's albatross - Alan Johnson - 23rd April 2006
 * Winds of change blow through equities - Failure of takeovers - 26th March 2006
 * Will Brown woo the shires and cut taxes? - Tax cuts to outmanoeuvre Cameron & Co? - 19th March 2006
 * The ingredients for a scandal over Rover - The collapse of Rover - 12th March 2006
 * Vodafone's crime was to forget its shareholders - Vodafone - 5th March 2006
 * Dividends are a real benefit to us all - Flow of dividends from public companies - 26th February 2006
 * Myners shows how to man the defence - Paul Myners - 19th February 2006
 * Britain's boardrooms have lost their bottle - British companies and acquisitions - 12th February 2006
 * Why Lapthorne should do the splits - Cable & Wireless - 5th February 2006
 * Same again, Your Lordships. Kill the bill - Company Law Reform Bill - 29th January 2006
 * Ask Sid, Labour's no good at privatisation - Privatisation -22nd January 2006
 * The greatest happiness of the greatest number - Investment trust sector - January 2006
 * Britain's defence policy left high and dry - End of the aircraft carrier? - 8th January 2006
 * Last post for Royal Mail's monopoly - Royal Mail- 1st January 2006
 * Bill of fare is a sign of how we are faring - Restaurants as barometers of consumer sentiment - 18th December 2005
 * Show us the money, Cameron & Co - Defining issue in British politics - 11th December 2005
 * Hello Rupert, it's Sir Richard calling - Birth of Virgin Media - 4th December 2005
 * Hilton is an 'asset-lite' fashion victim - The "asset-lite" company - 27th November 2005
 * Persimmon seeks room to swing a cat - State of the housing market - 20th November 2005
 * Iran's oil politics are a boon for the Bank - Iranian oil wealth - 13th November 2005
 * Another tidying up exercise is a monster - Legislation, rules and regulation - 6th November 2005



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 * Spectator articles (archive)