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What is it about global warming that turns sane men into ranting alarmists?

The science of climate change is far from settled, but one thing’s for sure: energy bills are set to rise. So why don’t Labour’s gurus offer practical policy ideas instead of doom-laden prophecies?

Features

How Slumdog made millionaires

Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire – based on Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A and the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? quiz show – has made a fortune for its British backers.

Reasons to be smug at WH Smith

The fortunes of two of our most familiar retailers could not be more different, says Judi Bevan. While Woolworths has gone into administration, WH Smith marches ever forward

Investor

Mind Your Own Beeswax

Veronica, daughter of The Spectator’s Dot Wordsworth, provides a monthly guide to
the jargon of the financial world

First signs of a rally?

Shareholders whose capital has been decimated are seeing their income slashed by dividend cuts, says Richard Northedge. But with the market at its lowest ebb since 1996, are we close to the bottom?

A fatal crash for Porsche and Volkswagen?

Matthew Lynn unravels the three-generation feud behind the crisis that has overtaken two of the mightiest names in German car-making and threatens to ruin both of them

Matthew Lynn