Feb 13, 2012

Bonus truce but the war goes on

It is too soon to tell if restraint is taking place

Jan 23, 2012

You are entering Hockney Country

East Yorkshire hopes for a tourism boost on the back of the artist’s latest show

From UK Jan 23, 2012

Cautious Cable leans towards wealth creation

Business secretary passes buck to shareholders

Jan 16, 2012

What could wipe Salmond’s smile?

There are questions about his judgment, an explosive temper is said to lurk beneath his smiling exterior, writes Brian Groom

Jan 10, 2012

Marxism and the Muppets

Some perceive the new film to have a distasteful message

Jan 2, 2012

Thatcher and the state – a coda

Cabinet papers have just been released for 1981, a year like 2011

Dec 20, 2011

A hacking, fracking year of upheaval

An annual round-up of phrases – some clichéd, others less so – from the Arab spring and the squeezed middle to bunga bunga

Dec 12, 2011

The titans hide under the duvet

Majority have been silent after Cameron’s veto

Dec 6, 2011

Time to knock the Shard down again

The office tower block, set to be the tallest building in Europe when it is finished, is seen as out of tune with the times

Nov 29, 2011

Sweet chariot, carry them all away

Rugby is augmenting its reputation for incompetence

Nov 22, 2011

An administration for troubled times?

Technocratic governments are all the rage

Nov 15, 2011

A metallic riff for our times

Heavy metal looks a more assured export as manufacturing’s recovery stalls

Oct 31, 2011

Time to show steel on metal theft

Britain is being plagued by gangs stealing copper, lead and other materials, writes , so the answer is licensing scrap dealers

Oct 24, 2011

A penny for the anti-capitalist guy

Guy Fawkes seems an unlikely man of the moment yet he has been reborn on face masks worn by anti-capitalist protesters across the world, writes Brian Groom

Oct 17, 2011

All guns blazing in the cruise wars

Southampton-Liverpool rivalry has been at fever pitch over the latter’s effort to win a chunk of the cruise liner business

Oct 11, 2011

Jobs market is still springing surprises

The revision of the recession’s scale only deepens the puzzle of how well the labour market has performed

Oct 4, 2011

Clues to unlocking Britain’s Mittelstand

Can the coalition spot fast-growing midsized companies and do anything worthwhile to help them

Sep 19, 2011

Britain can feel proud of Tata

Jaguar Land Rover’s £355m engine plant is a boost for the coalition’s hopes of rebalancing the economy

Sep 13, 2011

Tam’s question and the elusive answer

The coalition is, a little tardily, to fulfil a pledge to appoint a commission of experts to find a solution to the West Lothian Question

Sep 6, 2011

Insurrection in the sceptred isle

Rebellion in the countryside could yet be a more insidious problem for David Cameron

About Brian

Brian Groom Brian Groom is the FT’s UK business and employment editor. He has previously held a number of senior posts at the FT, including political editor and Europe edition editor, and is a former editor of Scotland on Sunday.

His weekly Notebook column is a wry take on life in the UK.

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