11. Labour bets on bashing bankers

The chancellor and the prime minister are certainly not lowering the temperature of their attack on banks' bonuses. Which, I suppose, is significant - even if there's nothing new of substance that they've announced in the past 24 hours or are...

28/09/2009 | 162 Hits | Read more...

12. Brown and bonuses

Gordon Brown just told Andrew Marr that there would be legislation to curb bankers' bonuses - and he implied that what he planned would be tougher on bankers and banks than what other countries were doing. How significant is this? Well not...

27/09/2009 | 169 Hits | Read more...

13. Ball not going to ITV

Tony Ball has walked away from ITV. The former Sky boss will not become chief executive of the commercial broadcaster, I have learned. He had set a deadline of this weekend to agree terms and the two sides failed to sort out everything....

25/09/2009 | 133 Hits | Read more...

14. G20: History and fudge

Plainly the most important announcement to come out Pittsburgh today will be that the G20 group of nations will replace the G8 as the permanent council for economic co-operation and - especially in extremis - economic co-ordination. It's a big...

25/09/2009 | 152 Hits | Read more...

15. Gordon Brown's monuments

No member of the government is closer to Gordon Brown than Shriti Vadera. The former banker was an adviser through his many years as chancellor and has been a minister since he became prime minister. In a way, she's his personal investment...

24/09/2009 | 145 Hits | Read more...