Boris Johnson is lucky in his enemies. They want to win rhetorical battles while he wants to win the next election. Every week at prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons, the leader of the opposition nails him for his economical ways with the truth and demonstrates that Johnson has performed another screeching U-turn. Invective rains down from commentators ...

Mike Ashley is best known for selling cheap tracksuits in the UK Now, he is thinking more like a bling king. The billionaire behind Sports Direct, who bought out the fancy but failing department store chain House of Fraser in 2018, is elevating a scion to a senior role, just as it’s been done at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton ...

There is an incontrovertible and sobering fact about the drive to net zero. Any effort that doesn’t work for the whole world will fail everywhere. A path that favours developed markets at the expense of others will lead to a partial net zero, which is no net zero at all. Unfortunately, too many countries, companies and investors see achieving this ...