Alistair Osborne

Companies try myriad things to put the wind up politicians. But rarely are they as pricey as this: a $4 billion hit on two cancelled projects and the shares dow

Maybe it’s unfair to blame the entire backlog in Britain’s courts on the time-wasting antics of a single Monaco-based billionaire — the parody “serial entrepreneur” Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. But it’s dead tricky to see how he’s helping. The famously humourless orange man has admittedly set up one go

Quite remarksable. Another set of figures from Marks & Spencer and the shares go up again. What is going on at Britain’s knickers-to-noodles emporium? Much more

Smart Metering Systems set to join exodus from the London market with KKR deal

If only Charlie Munger was still around for this regulatory breakthrough: approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the first “spot” bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETFs), with 11 of

Some hangovers go on for ages. Take the one at Diageo. Debra Crew had only been in charge of the drinks cabinet for five months before she put investors flat on their backs: November’s shock profits

Britain’s MPs are not paid to be polite. So it must have been with some restraint that the members of the environmental audit committee described the government’s nuclear strategy this week as

Everyone enjoys a comedy show. But maybe not when the outfit putting it on is National Air Traffic Services, the body that exists apparently “to make the skies an even safer and more efficient

A US acquisition in 2017 continues to haunt the Dettol-to-Durex group

Hein Schumacher focuses on power brands as chief executive seeks to improve performance