Jeff Randall



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Full name: Jeff William Randall

Area of interest: Business and Finance, Government and Politics: major business and political issues of the day

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:jeff.randall@telegraph.co.uk jeff.randall@telegraph.co.uk]

Website: Telegraph.co / Jeff Randall

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Representation: Capel & Land | CSA | Gordon Poole Agency | The London Speaker Bureau

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Biography:
Education: Royal Liberty Grammar School, Romford, Essex; University of Nottingham: Economics; University of Florida: Postgraduate in Journalism

Career: Financial Weekly: Assistant Editor; The Sunday Telegraph: City correspondent, 1986/1988; The Sunday Times: City Editor, 1989/1994, City and Business Editor, 1994/1995 (at the same time Director of Times Newspapers); Financial Dynamics (PR Firm) Deputy Chairman 1995/1996; The Sunday Times: assistant editor and sports editor (responsible for launching the Sunday Times' 20-page colour sports section, 1996); Sunday Business: Editor, 1998/2001 (Sunday Business won the Sunday Newspaper of the Year at the 1998 Newspaper Awards and the Wincott Award for Business Newspaper of the Year, 1998); BBC: Business editor, March 2001/2005; The Daily Telegraph: Editor-at-Large, November 2005/2008 Current position/role: The Daily Telegraph: Columnist
 * *update* Jeff Randall steps down from Telegraph for bigger Sky role - Jeff Randall is to step down from his role as editor-at-large of the Daily Telegraph to expand his Sky News role, taking his business show to four nights a week - The Guardian, 21st October 2008

Other roles: see TV/Radio

Viewpoints/Insight: Up close with the Barclays' 'consigliere' The Observer, January 2006; 'You want me to slag Murdoch off' The Guardian, September 2007

TV/Radio:

Video: While at the BBC appeared frequently on Radio 4's Today programme, BBC1's Ten O'clock News, BBC News 24; still presents documentary specials for the Money Programme
 * Jeff Randall's Weekend Business - BBC Radio Five Live 7/8pm Sundays
 * Jeff Randall Live' - Sky News 7.30pm Mondays, from 24th September 2007; *update* 21/10/09 - Sky News to launch a live half-hour business show hosted by Jeff Randall that will be broadcast live four nights a week at 7.30pm

Controversy/Criticism:

Awards/Honours: Financial Times Analysis' Financial Journalist of the Year Award, 1991; London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year Award, 2000; Harold Wincott prize for Best Business Broadcaster, 2004; Honorary doctorates of letters from Anglia Ruskin University, 2001, and the University of Nottingham, 2006

Other: Keen golfer, racing enthusiast and fan of Glasgow Rangers FC



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The Daily Telegraph:
Column remit: Government and Politics: major political issues

Section: Features / Comment

Role: Commentator

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:jeff.randall@telegraph.co.uk jeff.randall@telegraph.co.uk]

Website: Telegraph.co / Jeff Randall

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Friday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length: 1100/1200 words



Articles: 2011

 * not only Greeks who've lost their marbles'' - Taxpayers must pick up the tab for Athens – no bank will lend money to the bankrupt Greek regime - 27th June
 * Bank of England is failing this country'' - Its forecasting record is hopeless and inaction has left us with prices racing ahead of pay - 23rd May
 * must call the bluff of the big, bad banks'' - It would be insane not to change the structure of banking, because it’s doomed to fail again - 8th April
 * the devil's Budget, but a necessary evil'' - Critics of the Chancellor are out of touch with the realities of reforming hand-out Britain - 25th March
 * for young boffins isn't rocket science'' - It makes sense for employers to fund students and choose the best of the bunch - 2nd March
 * euros – the single currency is finished'' - The debt bill is too high for the Club Med nations and they will have to leave the zone - 27th January



Articles: 2010

 * black swans, but Vince Cable is the turkey'' - In a year of big surprises, how long before the Business Secretary is stuffed - 24th December
 * counterfeiters aren't a patch on the Bank of England'' - The British and US governments are printing money to create inflation – to reduce their debts - 20th November
 * Review 2010: Let's remind Ed Miliband where the deficit came from'' - Public spending increased by 50 per cent in real terms under Labour - 22nd October
 * Coalition is spending even more than tax-and-waste Labour'' - The unions are squealing, but the so-called spending cuts are nothing of the sort - 17th September
 * is no soft option when confronting our economic reality'' - Forecasters may disagree, but some harsh truths are unavoidable - 10th September
 * Blair has rewritten history – without modesty or shame'' - If he wasn't in charge of the country when it all started to go wrong, then who was? - 3rd September
 * results: How the great university boom has defrauded our students'' - Those who didn’t make the grade this week needn't despair - 20th August
 * reform: only radical action will save our valleys of despair'' - The Coalition must be bold if it is to offer hope to the lost generation of Merthyr Tydfil - 13th August
 * lightweights and clones – can't Labour do better?'' - The leadership candidates expose how far the party is from recovery - 6th August
 * of term report at Cabinet College: better than the last lot'' - An exclusive leak on the performance of the new intake in the corridors of power - 30th July
 * the Great's poisonous pen will do Britain a power of good'' - Mandelson's memoir exposes the moral bankruptcy at the heart of the Brown government - 16th July
 * cure is painful: work harder, save more – and spend less'' - We can't afford gold-plated pensions and jackpot pay-offs for the public sector - 9th July
 * the England coach, call in a juju man - but never pitch in with our cash'' - The last thing English football needs is intervention from the state - 2nd July
 * 2010: The days of spend now and pay back later are over. Later is now'' - George Osborne can haul Britain back from the brink of ruin – if he has the courage - 18th June
 * Brown's henchmen are rewriting history as we sink into the red'' - The time for delusion, deceit and dodgy economic figures is over - 10th June
 * and Prudential: As the cream of British business turns sour, time for a change at the top'' - Shareholders have lost billions thanks to management blunders - 4th June
 * Germany does, the euro as we know it is dead'' - Angela Merkel's ban on short-selling is just a distraction from the horror to come - 21st May
 * will take a long time for the new boys to unravel Gordon Brown's mess'' - Long after it is buried, New Labour will continue to inflict economic pain - 14th May
 * is the first casualty of the election battle'' - Today's politicians are prepared to say almost anything but the truth - 2nd April
 * 2010: Labour is stealing from our children's future to buy votes'' - In the wake of the Budget, it's a disgrace that Labour would have Britain's national debt explode for electoral gain - 26th March
 * election 2010: The Lib Dems are talking tough on debt - but where's the beef?'' - Politicians won't tell the truth because voters have been infantilised by Labour - 19th March
 * Brown has terrible form when it comes to keeping his promises'' - rewriting history cannot save the Prime Minister - or Britain - from his failures - 12th March
 * claim of patriotism is the last refuge of a busted government'' - stifling dissent over the pound’s weakness will not fool the markets - 5th March
 * Darling is a dead man talking, and he’s taking sweet revenge'' - Win or lose the election, the Chancellor knows his days are numbered - 26th February
 * history is vital - there are obvious lessons for Cameron'' - Churchill and Thatcher had to win elections to rescue Britain’s economy and values -19th February
 * has Gordon Brown done for Britain since his first Budget?'' - The moment our leader gripped the levers of power, the downward spiral began - 12th February
 * are a luxury we don't need, and certainly can't afford'' - The abolition of thousands of non-productive non-jobs should be top of Mr Darling's Budget hit list - 29th January
 * thinking from those who scream foul over Cadbury'' - The outcry over the US takeover is politically driven and ignores the facts - 22nd January
 * minister, this disaster began years before the credit crunch'' - Britain is in a financial mess because of a spending binge that stretches back to 2002 - 15th January
 * is no one telling us the truth about spending cuts?'' - The public needs to be told exactly what is to be done about our gaping budget deficit - 8th January



Articles: 2009

 * selfish staff are symbolic of a country that's falling apart'' - The United Kingdom feels more fractured today than at any time since the poll tax riots - 17th December
 * report: the Treasury won't tell us the true cost of this debt disaster'' - If you thought Alistair Darling's figures were bad, wait until you see the final bill - 11th December
 * we head for the rocks, will Captain Darling change course?'' - The Chancellor Alistair Darling must defy his boss and do what's best for the country - 4th December
 * Britain's got talent, why are we being run by foreigners?'' - what happened to British management? Where did all our talent go? - 27th November
 * Brown is joking if he thinks he can outlaw his own profligacy'' - The Prime Minister plans to make excess deficit an offence, but who could be prosecuted - 20th November
 * respect, no morals, no trust - welcome to modern Britain'' - Our political leaders are falling short as we sink under a tide of vulgarity and sleaze - 6th November
 * wants a free ride on the Euro Express'' - The EU job may suit the former PM, but it would do nothing for Britain - 30th October
 * make Britain safer - pull our troops out of Afghanistan'' - The real danger lies within our unpoliced borders - not from the Taliban - 16th October
 * changed my mind about David Cameron – he has what it takes'' - Cameron was right to abandon feelgood sound bites in his speech to the Tory Conference in favour of tackling harsh reality - 9th October
 * Brown must be mad to want to discuss his economic record'' - The Prime Minister has smashed the Ten Commandments laid down in his first Budget 11 years ago - 2nd October
 * news for the rest of us – the Guilt Industry is booming'' - If you want to make something of your life and your children's, prepare to be vilified - 25th September
 * by EU rules, Royal Mail staggers from shambles to fiasco'' - Britain's postal service is in dire straits and its new chairman faces an uphill struggle - 18th September
 * talk is meaningless to the man with his P45 in the post'' - Unemployment is the only indicator that counts when it comes to confidence - 11th September
 * TV debate could be sudden political death - bring it on!'' - David Cameron has most to lose, Nick Clegg most to gain - while it could be a lifeline for Gordon Brown - 4th September
 * should flow from talent, not be a career choice in itself'' - young people have fallen under the spell of fame for its own sake - 21st August
 * jobs miracle has been a disaster for a whole generation'' - it is way too late to blame the Tories for the latest, terrible unemployment figures - 14th August
 * don't live in the real world'' - Whatever is going on in the stockmarket bears little resemblance to ordinary people's experience - 7th August
 * the class war backfired and put social mobility into retreat'' - Despite the bullying of universities and dumbing down of exams, children cannot escape the schools for losers - 31st July
 * have a moral duty to our troops: pay up or pull them out'' - There's plenty of scope for big cuts in the bloated welfare budget to preserve defence spending - 17th July
 * can bank on the Hand of Gord to create another disaster'' - Labour's financial reform paper highlights the problems of having a failed chancellor as PM - 10th July
 * Brown's attack on Tory cuts has backfired in spectacular fashion'' - Labour is in retreat as voters see through its public-spending propaganda and zero per cent spending rise - 3rd July
 * no hiding place for shifty politicians in this YouTube age'' - Crude attempts to peddle an illusion about public spending will be exposed - 19th June
 * are giving up on Labour because it gave up on them'' - Mass immigration and closer EU integration have no public support - 12th June
 * amount of reshuffling will solve the mess Labour has made'' - Ed Balls's track record at the Treasury makes him unfit to be Chancellor - 5th June
 * expenses: Our politicians are agreed - it's everyone's fault but theirs'' - The range of excuses in the MPs' expenses affair has been breathtaking - 29th May (see: MPs' expenses: summary)
 * expenses: The Speaker should have put a stop to this, not indulged in it'' - Michael Martin might have been a good example to other MPs, but he flunked it. Boot him out - 15th May
 * is no time for Tory jokes - we're galloping into a mega-crisis'' - Attacking Labour policies and not the personalities will seal Mr Brown's fate -8th May
 * the loyal Gurkhas is yet another symptom of moral decay'' - The mishandling of the veterans' right to residence tells us a lot about the shortcomings of Mr Brown's leadership - 1st May
 * 2009: Now we are all up to our ears in it'' - Alistair Darling's calamitous Budget not only consigned the nation to decades of debt, but also planted a poisonous legacy that will blight generations to come - 24th April
 * are just a few things Alistair Darling should do in his Budget'' - 17th April
 * may be boring, but we ignore this scandal at our peril'' - MPs rely on our inertia to continue to line their pockets - 10th April
 * the G20 mob, coping-class fury is about to reach boiling point'' - Decent folk have been roasted on a spit by a tribe of political pygmies – and they're really angry - 3rd April
 * broke, Labour's finished: mission complete, Agent Harman'' - the Leader of the House of Commons must be part of a Tory plot to destroy the Government - 27th March
 * OK for banks to play roulette – but not with our savings'' - Lord Turner should have split investment – or 'casino' banking – from deposit-taking - 20th March
 * Brown and Bernard Madoff are separated by a single detail – Bernie's pleading guilty'' - 13th March
 * we all lose in the lottery of Labour's education system'' - Ministers won't admit the terrible suffering caused by their class war on parents - 6th March
 * Fred Goodwin is stealing the show from the real culprits'' - The thirst for vengeance is distracting us from a terrible reality - that the economy is in a worse state than anyone will admit - 1st March
 * by bit, Brown's fantasy is being pulled apart by the facts'' - The scale of our problems is at last being recognised by the Bank of England - 13th February
 * in denial: afraid to face up to the real causes of recession'' - An infantilised electorate is encouraged by politicians to blame bogeymen - 6th February
 * Brown is a busted flush – and he's taking us down with him'' - Tony Blair timed his exit from No 10 perfectly – Machiavelli would have approved - 30th January
 * crisis: It's impossible to get any hard facts and figures from British banks'' - the disintegration of Britain's financial sector has finished off Gordon Brown's dwindling reputation for competence - 23rd January
 * the theatre of sound bites, all that matters is scoring points'' - Baroness Vadera's comment about 'green shoots' was unfortunate, but nothing compared with the damage caused by Labour's policies - 16th January
 * shows we were right to stay out of the euro'' - The boom has turned to gloom on the Costa del Sol and it's a fate that could easily have befallen Britain - 9th January



Articles: 2008

 * layabouts and gutless politicians defraud the taxpayers'' - Labour is talking tough on benefits. It can mean only one thing: the scent of possible victory in a snap post-Christmas election has wafted in through the windows of Downing Street - 12th December 2008
 * the truth is lambasted in politically correct Britain'' - 5th December 2008
 * except the Government knows we’re spending too much'' - Brown and Darling have cooked up a scheme to make prices fall even further: while they are alive, voodoo economics will never die - 28th November 2008
 * money is tight, people spend less. Are you listening, Mr Darling?'' - the root cause of this economic misery is debt, and no recovery will be lasting until the Government starts to redeem its IOUs. - 21st November 2008
 * prints all over this British disaster'' - We are about to witness a burst of old-fashioned pre-election giveaways to hide the Government's blunders - 14th November 2008
 * Obama take Florida by storm?'' - The Democrats' candidate is poised to make history in the former Confederate state - 31st October 2008
 * PM: there should be an inquiry ... into Britain’s finances'' - The House of Osborne has been Mandelised. Windows of opportunity have been smashed and proceeds of opinion-poll growth dragged into the gutter - 24th October 2008
 * If anyone can find George Osborne, tell him his country needs him - Something is not quite right; it doesn't add up. Bits are missing - 17th October 2008
 * from the City and Wall Street will destroy innocent lives'' - Millions of people face unemployment, home repossession, and a sharp decline in living standards - 10th October 2008
 * roof was bound to fall in on Labour's housing market'' - Gordon Brown's record will be different from the Tories' of the early 1990s only in that, for many victims, the pain will be greater - 3rd October 2008
 * taxpayers are being enrolled in an economic chain gang'' - having failed to deliver victory in the War on Terror, President Bush is hoping for better luck in the War on Error - 26th September 2008
 * Brown has led us beyond boom and into bust'' - Even as his world crumbles around him, Gordon Brown insults the electorate by refusing to admit his role in the financial crisis - 19th September 2008
 * surprise'' - Shanghai is bursting with entrepreneurial energy. Does this pose a threat to Britain or present a lucrative opportunity? - 12th September 2008
 * out for falling dividends... your nest-egg could be smashed'' - Deep holes are again opening up in private pension funds and, without reform of the system, the country is heading for disaster - 29th August 2008
 * are gold, unlike the rich poseurs'' - Those who attack Team GB for being too 'posh' should reserve their ire for the cash-stuffed dummies who call themselves footballers - 22nd August 2008
 * politics: answer to Labour's prayers'' - With a little help from some biochemists and the Monsanto marketing boys, the PM could foster the green shoots of a ballot-box recovery - 15th August 2008
 * Where did it all go wrong? When Labour started telling lies - Not since Trivial Pursuit became an instant hit in the early 1980s has a parlour game so dominated the leisure hours of Britain's chattering classes. I'm referring, of course, to Where Did It All Go Wrong? - 27th June 2008
 * The Apprentice is to real business what Monopoly is to property - About six years ago, I was invited for a cup of tea by the then controller of BBC2, Jane Root. At the time, I had been the corporation's business editor for a year or so, and was already becoming wary of management meetings, most of which resembled the Caucus Race from Alice in Wonderland - 13th June 2008
 * Reasons to be cheerful? Well, at least the sun shone yesterday - Newspapers are often accused of being wilfully alarmist in order to boost circulation. Destruction and disaster are more appealing to readers than jolly tales about jumble sales, so we churn out the former and spike the latter. That, at least, is the allegation - 6th June 2008
 * How I long for the early departure of fat, lazy and incompetent BAA - With summer just around the corner, many of us are braced for the weird annual ritual known as "getting away from it all" - 30th May 2008
 * How the Rumour Mill mafia is destroying everybody's savings - Much has dried up in today's money markets. Confidence, trust and integrity have been burnt away by a blazing credit crunch. For many investors, the landscape is looking like a parched river bed on which the bare bones of their once-lucrative savings are turning white - 21st March 2008
 * If Livingstone loses London, he'll have only himself to blame - The formidable political machine that is Ken Livingstone has started to leak oil - 7th March 2008
 * When governments print money, buy gold - "If you don't trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a pine tree, worth $4,000-$5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars?" - 18th January 2008



The Daily Telegraph:
Column remit: Business and Finance

Section: City

Role: Commentator

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:jeff.randall@telegraph.co.uk jeff.randall@telegraph.co.uk]

Website: Telegraph.co / Jeff Randall

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Wednesday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length: 900 words



Articles:

 * be a good Jeremiah, it's all got to go wrong'' - By tradition, the first task of a business columnist in early January is to concoct some exciting predictions for the next 12 months - 6th January 2009
 * a few millions is easy: burning through $50bn takes real talent'' - We knew it was a bubble economy. We also knew that in a bubble economy the business of flim-flam does extraordinarily well - 17th December 2008
 * brave investors only: 10 ways to tell that you are touching bottom'' - Telegraph readers, I salute you. After this column last week offered a bottle of champagne for the best top-of-the-market signal that should have alerted us to the looming credit crunch, there were 400 postings on the website and about 20 letters in my mailbag - 10th December 2008
 * the excuses, here are the signals showing disaster on the way'' - Listen to government ministers long enough and you may begin to believe that our economic woes were unforeseeable. They talk about "shocks to the system" from the other side of the world - 3rd December 2008
 * up, taxes up, unemployment up, welcome back Old Labour'' - Now it's serious. Not since Hitler parked his tanks on our neighbours' lawns have Britain's public finances deteriorated at such an alarming rate - 26th November 2008
 * expensive independence is better than government interference'' - As a newspaper columnist, there is a sure-fire way to attract readers' opprobrium: write something that falls short of excoriating the banks - 19th November 2008
 * wrong with Lloyds' takeover of HBOS? Just follow your nose'' - There is something smelly about the takeover of Halifax-Bank of Scotland by Lloyds TSB - 12th November 2008
 * president’s challenge will be to restore traditional American values'' - Whoever wakes up as president this morning, the dream of heading for the White House will be matched by the nightmare of an imploding economy - 5th November 2008
 * The bigger the party, the longer it takes to clear up the mess - Do you remember 1982? Beer cost 62p a pint, petrol £1.59 a gallon and the average house £23,600. Prince William was born, Channel 4 was launched, and British forces liberated the Falkland Islands - 29th October 2008
 * It’s back to the future with Lord Mortgage in charge - As Gordon Brown was preparing his Budget details in 1998, I interviewed him about the new Government's intentions for British business- 22nd October 2008
 * did RBS and Darling deny story?'' - RBS and Darling denied my report that Sir Fred Goodwin would be replaced by Stephen Hester, but it was true all along - 15th October 2008
 * Why propping up banks will not rescue a debauched financial system - Confession time. As 228 Representatives in Congress voted against Hank Paulson’s bail-out plan on Monday, I was cheering them on - 9th October 2008
 * Crisis: Remember 1929 - what seemed the end was only the beginning'' - The dismemberment of Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers' former chief executive, before a Congressional committee was a compelling, albeit brutal - 8th October 2008
 * Labour bays for blood, banking's winners and losers emerge'' - Overheard in a winebar: "For heaven's sake, don't tell my parents that I work for a City bank, they think I'm scrubbing floors in a whorehouse." - 24th September 2008
 * sub-prime minister has led us to bust'' - Gordon Brown's decline has been as speedy as that of the world's biggest financial institutions - 22nd September 2008
 * Fantasy finance cuts many of the giants of global banking down to size - Imagine what it's like to live through an earthquake and a gale-force storm – at the same time. That is what's happening to the world's financial markets - 17th September 2008
 * Capitalism – it's painful, but it works - The financial system is facing its biggest test since the Wall Street Crash 80 years ago. It is a long overdue day of reckoning believes Jeff Randall - 16th September 2008
 * Enter the dragon, breathing fire and ready to shake the world - I took a stroll down Shanghai's Nanjing Road. It is not so much a retail centre, more a cultural phenomenon - 10th September 2008
 * Final pieces in jigsaw of doom drop into place - Until this year, the missing pieces in the doomsayer's jigsaw were falling house prices and rising unemployment... - 27th August 2008
 * BAA break-up is needed for better airports - Once in a while, when the moon is blue, international airlines surprise themselves by making a collective profit. Unfortunately, the feelgood factor rarely lasts - 20th August 2008
 * Chances are the difference is Darling... - As the credit crunch bears down on companies and consumers, most of us appreciate a laugh to lighten the load. So hats off to Alistair Darling for cutting through the gloom to serve up a rib-tickling slice of tragic irony - 22nd July 2008
 * Sir Stuart may need help from on high to survive - IN THE Bible, St Michael is a principal angel whose role is to rescue the faithful from the enemy. Marks & Spencer dropped the St Michael brand eight years ago, but its troubled chief executive, Sir Stuart Rose, must be praying that there's still a power in the celestial hierarchy willing to save him from the wrath of angry shareholders and disgusted customers - 9th July 2008
 * How to save the BBC from itself (and get its hand out of our pockets) - Jeff Randall argues that a combination of corporate imperialism and institutional self-regard stops the broadcaster seeing where its future lies - 3rd July 2008
 * Why Mirror's boss is not the next Greg Dyke - He's a jammy fellow, Greg Dyke. He doesn't see it that way, but it's true. Having been slung out by the BBC after the Hutton inquiry, Dyke still fizzes with a sense of injustice. Never mind, it's not as though he vanished into obscurity - 2nd July 2008
 * Hard times are back, and so are the fraudsters - House prices are moving from the loft to the basement. Last year's "crisis", with an estimated shortfall of 4m homes, has morphed into a very different kind of problem: plenty of properties on the market but no buyers - 25th June 2008
 * Woolies' future is clear to see on its empty shelves and dead screens - Going, going, not quite gone, but most definitely in the departure lounge of life: Woolworths is suffering a long, slow death - 19th June 2008
 * Housebuilders scream for help after losing their 'one-way' bet - Remarkable, isn't it, how industries that complain about Government interference during boom times are quick to scream for state aid when the going gets tough - 18th June 2008
 * In business, there are lies, damned lies and the art of misspeaking - "What is the chief end of man? - to get rich. In what way? - dishonestly if he can; honestly if he must." Mark Twain - 4th June 2008
 * Essex boys and girls will wreak revenge for being sold a pup - Earlier this week, those to whom the leader of Her Majesty's Opposition refers as "the Essex Two" spent an agreeable evening at Britain's newest racecourse. My colleague Simon Heffer and I visited Great Leighs to sample our home county's bold move into the sport of kings - 18th May 2008
 * Delivering a statement that's quite puzzling - Lots of stuff gets lost in the post. Millions of letters and parcels go missing every year, many of which are never found. But it's not just mail that vanishes. Taxpayers' money, political credibility and business reputations have been known to disappear - 14th May 2008
 * Why business is wasting time playing politics - "It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business" - US president Warren Harding, 1921 - 7th May 2008
 * Bankers would not be punters if they were forced to pay all losses - About 10 years ago, I had lunch with some directors of C. Hoare & Co, the independent private bank, at its head office in Fleet Street. They were extremely courteous, but also rather odd: there was no sales pitch - 30th April 2008
 * When our devious ministers inhale their own exhaust - Is business getting tougher? Are you feeling the pinch? Yes, I thought so. Most of us are - 9th April 2008
 * When the going gets tough, banks yelp for nanny - Bank customer: "What's the difference between a recession and a depression?" - 25th March 2008
 * Exposed: myth of the Fed's serial bubble-blower - Gee whiz! You know it's getting serious when Bear Stearns is sold for a sum that many Wall Street titans regard as little more than a Christmas bonus - 19th March 2008
 * A world addicted to easy credit must go cold turkey - It's only mid-March, but this is one of Wall Street's sweatiest weekends. Traders' shirts are drenched in the perspiration of unpleasant possibilities - 16th March 2008
 * Pit pony carrying top weight is set up for a crashing fall - If Alistair Darling were a runner at this week's Cheltenham Festival, his form would read FFFF. Presented with an obstacle, he falls every time - 12th March 2008
 * If this is a boomtown, then where is all the wealth? - My first visit to New Delhi was in 1983. I went there as an ambitious reporter to cover the annual meeting of Iata, the airlines' trade body - 5th March 2008
 * Why share price falls will put the brake on consumer spending - Yesterday morning, I nearly threw the radio out of the bathroom window. The cause of my temper tantrum was yet another air-head contributor claiming that what was going on in the City - sharply falling share prices - had nothing to do with life in the real world - 23rd January 2008



Scoops:

 * Robert Maxwell's secret bid for Tottenham Hotspur FC - The Sunday Times, 1991


 * John Latsis' secret £2m donation to the Conservative Party - The Sunday Times, 1991


 * Broke the story of the defection of Michael Grade to ITV, see: BBC News Grade departure 'leaves big hole' - 28th November 2006



news & updates:

 * Jeff Randall steps down from Telegraph for bigger Sky role - Jeff Randall is to step down from his role as editor-at-large of the Daily Telegraph to expand his Sky News role, taking his business show to four nights a week - The Guardian, 21st October 2008



Links:

 * Wikipedia biog.