Neil Collins

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. We should shed them for Thames Water. Who says so?

The bitter truth is that steelmaking in the UK, barring a few specialist products, has no long-term future. Replacing blast furnaces with electric arc sounds frightfully modern and hi-tech, but the change will produce an inferior product at a higher price. The recycled steel output has a smaller range of uses than the current production, while electricity is a far more expensive source of energy than coal. Even writing off the taxpayer's £500m will not guarantee a profit for

Don't miss a story. Proposition 33 attempts to repeal the bipartisan Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act enacted in 1995.

It's the slogan that every chief executive should have pasted on the wall in front of him.

You may not have heard of Belron . You almost certainly know of Autoglass , especially if you've had a stone smash your windscreen.

In September 1976, the UK government was in economic disarray. It had a monster Budget deficit that it needed to finance, and the market traders could smell weakness.

The average standard of living in Britain has not risen in a decade.

With the news of interest rate cuts and dropping mortgage rates, there is a renewed interest in home purchasing. However, it is still an incredibly competitive market, so you need to be prepared.

Nuclear is orders of magnitude safer than any other generating source.

‘Every day when I wake up, I thank the Lord I’m Welsh…’