How an industrial disaster was the making of the world's largest aero-engine group

How an industrial disaster was the making of the world's largest aero-engine group

Fred Goodwin led Royal Bank of Scotland to ruin and Britain to the brink of financial disaster. But who was the man they called Fred the Shred and how did he build RBS into (briefly) the world's la...

The hugely popular podcast A long time in finance is coming under the umbrella of the Library of Mistakes.

As net zero goals revive the push for atomic power, could it light the way or lead to disaster? Three timely books explore the possibilities

Imagine the embarrassment: you announce a national steel strategy and jump through all the approved hoops of public consultation to show you are taking a reasonable ministerial decision. Then, just da...

Not Trump's Ukraine effort, but the grandaddy of all carve-ups: post-Ottoman Iraq

Notes on business and financial history

Podcast Episode · A Long Time In Finance · 03/14/2025 · 31m

Podcast Episode · A Long Time In Finance · 14/03/2025 · 31m

As the case of Harland & Wolff shows, industrial capacity, once atrophied, is hard to build back

As the case of Harland & Wolff shows, industrial capacity, once atrophied, is hard to build back

The green zealotry of the energy secretary remains undimmed and som Labour insiders are concerned…

Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and mo...

Lessons in the pros and cons of atomic innovation in Scotland's far north

A new paper examines how its culture has changed

In which the nation's most average driver tries to buy a new car and realises we’re all poor now.

Notes on business and financial history

By the banks of the River Lagan, not far from the centre of Belfast, stands a modernist structure that looks from some angles like the hull of a massive ship.

Privatisation in the 1980s made sense, but the mess that followed has left us, the consumers, facing distasteful choices

Privatisation in the 1980s made sense, but the mess that followed has left us, the consumers, facing distasteful choices