RUTH SUNDERLAND: The North needs a Boris boost. But if he doesn’t deliver, his new voters won’t forgive him By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 23:59 BST, 15 December 2019 | Updated: 00:54 BST, 16 December 2019 Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party have won an opportunity to reshape the political landscape for … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: When the Berlin Wall fell, many assumed western liberal democracy had beaten communism – they reckoned without the rise of China By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 19 April 2020 The Chinese economy is suffering badly from coronavirus and a draconian lockdown, … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: This is one of mankind’s darkest moments and we need nations to come together in a spirit of generosity By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 12 April 2020 This column should be coming to you from Washington DC, where the Spring meetings … Read more
Logical thinking is one of the first casualties in situations of great stress, which must be the explanation for the way dividends are being demonised in the pandemic. An idea has taken hold that companies must take an axe to executive pay and to dividends as if the two could be bundled together under the … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus could be the catalyst to a far fairer and better-functioning economy By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 5 April 2020 Right now, with the virus death toll mounting and millions of us fearful for our jobs and businesses, it is very … Read more
The airline industry can be accused of many sins. It is infested with brassy billionaires, such as the avaricious Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of EasyJet, and the egregious Sir Richard Branson. It is responsible for pollution that is poisoning the planet. Customer service is sometimes woeful and industrial relations, wherever the main fault lies, … Read more
How sobering to reflect that, as we enter one of the worst financial disasters this country has ever known, the two men in charge of saving the economy have been in their jobs for less than two months between them. Rishi Sunak stepped over the threshold of Number 11 in the middle of February. Andrew … Read more
How bad can it get? That’s the question on the lips of investors, from the largest Wall Street operators to the most modest pension saver. It may seem unfeeling, even callous, to think about money when people’s lives and health are in jeopardy. But think about it we must. Millions of people who just a … Read more
Nissan mothballs UK biggest car plant: Sunderland factory employs some 6,000 workers By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 | Updated: 01:08 GMT, 18 March 2020 Nissan has mothballed the biggest car plant in the UK as the Covid-19 outbreak wreaks havoc. Production at the giant factory in Sunderland, … Read more
For the millions of people whose travel plans have been thrown into disarray by coronavirus, pleas from Virgin Atlantic for a multi-billion-pound taxpayer bailout will be greeted with deep distrust. Galling as it is, however, the Government should stand ready to rescue the industry in order to get through the immediate crisis and to help … Read more