Bankers have been off the invitation list for much of the last decade. So it took a brave BBC producer to put Virgin Money chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia on Desert Island Discs. She claims that banking had been 'transformed' by the crisis. But that is not strictly true. ...read
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ALEX BRUMMER: Government could soon start offloading Royal Bank of Scotland shares - even if initial tranches are sold at a loss
As the tenth anniversary of the credit crunch approaches, it is astonishing that Royal Bank of Scotland is still 75 per cent owned by taxpayers. The reality is that RBS is all but out of the danger zone. It is the bank in Britain with the greatest number of business clients and has an expanding consumer franchise. It ought to be considered a recovery stock, which is why any early losses on share disposals should be cleared by subsequent sales at higher prices. ...read
ALEX BRUMMER: Murdoch's Sky bid faces new hurdle, despite Fox's belief that the path should be clear
Earlier this week City lawyers Allen & Overy invited Karen Bradley to ‘dismiss flagrant political attempts’ organised by Ed Miliband to interfere in the regulatory process. It must be the case that if Fox does win control over Sky then the centre of gravity will over time move to the US as production budgets are consolidated. There will also be concerns that the scrupulous neutrality of Sky News could be sacrificed on the altar of Fox’s conservative agenda. The biggest question of all is whether this is a good deal? ...read
July 2017
- ALEX BRUMMER: Glaxo's new boss Emma Walmsley resets the agenda and gives Britain a much-needed boost
- ALEX BRUMMER: The run on Carillion cash... and how it all went wrong at a British construction giant
June 2017
- Couple on their way to £7,000 Hawaii honeymoon are instead locked in Los Angeles airport detention then sent back to England 'because the bridegroom is a Muslim'
- Charlie Gard’s parents’ fight to take their terminally-ill son home to die but doctors say his ventilator cannot fit through the family’s front door as High Court judge is to rule on Wednesday
- Corbyn faces calls to RESIGN for reneging on promise to write off £100bn student debt after two shadow ministers are caught publicly BOASTING about the plans
- Casualty star Tom Chambers apologises after his comments that 'men have to pay for their wives and children' in defence of the BBC gender pay gap are slammed as 'sexist'
- Drivers are forced to make 'one of the largest diversions ever' with hour-long 35 mile detour because of a half a mile road closure only for it to be trumped a day later by another even LONGER
- Secretary, 57, 'who claimed £65,000 in disability benefits because she could "barely walk" was caught out after being pictured playing badminton and enjoying a scuba diving holiday'
- Student, 21, thought to be the fifth at Bristol University to take her own life in a single year hanged herself after 'slowly unravelling' with depression
- Clarifications and corrections
- The Uber ride from hell: Horrified passenger films 'intoxicated prostitute in the front seat performing oral sex on driver - and all company did was offer $10 credit'
- Should we be worried about importing chlorine-washed chickens from the US after Brexit? Trade minister dismisses Remain campaigners' health concerns
- Britain's first wolf-cubs in 47 years are left motherless at just three-months-old after Ember the she-wolf escapes from Cotswold wildlife park and is shot dead after climbing over a DEFECTIVE electric fence
- Consider yourself a law-abiding citizen? How the average Briton commits THIRTY TWO crimes a year!
- The Uber ride from hell: Horrified passenger films 'intoxicated prostitute in the front seat performing oral sex on driver - and all company did was offer $10 credit'
- Sleep tight our beautiful little boy: Charlie Gard’s parents reduce courtroom to tears with agonising decision to let their son die
- 'I think she doesn't know what happened': Devastated parents of girl, 18, who live-streamed car crash which left her 14-year-old sister dead say it has ruined their lives and the older daughter needs help
- Woman accused of fatally sabotaging her fiance's kayak on New York's Hudson River breaks down in tears as she pleads guilty over his death
- Video shows San Diego teacher refuse to answer whether she is American to border patrol and be held for more than an hour
- Feminist inventor created the world's first 'self-cleaning house' because she was sick of housework: Centenarian built a 'giant dishwasher' home that washed and dried itself using 68 devices - but lost the patent and passed away in anonymity
- Shocking moment naked man 'high on drugs' goes on rampage in Chicago neighborhood after cutting off his own penis
- 'Anyone else want to reach into the TV and give them a hug?': Viewers' emotion as Harry and William reveal how they struggled to cope after the death of their mother
- Donald Trump attacks 'weak' Jeff Sessions AGAIN in early morning tweet storm as Scaramucci warns of 'tension' over far-reaching Russia probe
- Student, 17, whose legs were severed below the knee by a train when he was walking by a track with his EARBUDS in sues CSX 'because drivers didn't blow a horn to alert him'
- PIERS MORGAN: Planet Diana was a crazy place but even though she drove the royals (and me!) mad when she was alive the modern-minded sons she produced are probably their best hope of survival
- Baby I loathe your way: Fans of Peter Frampton LIVID after singer storms off stage during live show and tries to rip video equipment off cameraman for filming young female audience member during set
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