Johnson’s political cowardice applies brake to cheap energy as he bets on nuclear | Nils Pratley
The two main criticisms of the government’s new energy security strategy are fair. The tiptoeing around onshore wind, which got ...
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Regarding Russia, UK firms are going to need thought-out positions | Nils Pratley
Russia is “uninvestable for the foreseeable future”, said Stephen Bird, chief executive of Abrdn, a statement of the obvious for ...
Read moreGoing after developers to fix the cladding crisis is welcome – and overdue | Nils Pratley
At last: a scheme that roughly resembles a financial solution to the government’s scandalous failure to ensure combustible cladding is ...
Read moreSSE will be hard to bully given the arithmetic and political backing | Nils Pratley
It wasn’t necessarily the way to bet, but two big names of the FTSE 100 index have shown how to ...
Read moreShell basing itself in the UK is not a vote of confidence in the economy | Nils Pratley
It’s now 3-0 to the UK in terms of Anglo-Dutch members of the FTSE 100 index picking a single location ...
Read moreBP can put rocketing gas and oil prices to better use | Nils Pratley
The middle of the Cop26 climate conference was not an ideal moment to demonstrate that producing, refining and trading hydrocarbons ...
Read moreOfgem must show it is awake as energy sector faces winter nightmare | Nils Pratley
“We are in danger of just sleepwalking into an absolute massacre,” Keith Anderson, the chief executive of Scottish Power, said ...
Read moreTHG needs to reassure shareholders and finally get a proper chair | Nils Pratley
Shares in THG, or The Hut Group, finally bounced on Thursday, but, given how far they’re fallen, even a 10% ...
Read moreThe breathless pace of deal-making might be baffling THG shareholders | Nils Pratley
If you thought the world of social media influencers and digital commerce “platforms” was baffling already, Matthew Moulding is not ...
Read morePhew! Kwarteng can breathe again as Meggitt race slims down to one | Nils Pratley
That’s a relief – especially for Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary. TransDigm, by a distance the more problematic of the ...
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