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Vision, focus... and singing in the church choir

Nick Kochan meets Dame Mary Perkins, founder and matriarch of Specsavers, the Guernsey-based opticians chain that helped turn glasses into a fashion accessory

Features

Shot in the arm for safety

UK entrepreneur Marc Koska is selling his unique auto-disable syringes around the world to make injections safer, says Laura Staples

A bitter pill to swallow

The counterfeit drugs industry has a devastating effect on poor African countries. Katrina Manson reports from Sierra Leone on the investment initiatives helping to improve supplies of safe drugs

Investor

Mind Your Own Beeswax

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

Becoming King Canute: an exercise in humility

Tipping shares in this year’s falling market has felt like an exercise in futility to rival that of King Canute attempting to defy the tide.

What the US Treasury needs: magician and economic genius

James Doran assesses the qualities needed to be Obama’s Treasury secretary at a time of unprecedented crisis, and wonders whether the front-runners measure up

James Doran