SUBSCRIBE | TRY A MONTH FREE Subscribe
Close
  • Coffee House
    • UK POLITICS
    • EU
    • US POLITICS
    • RELIGION
    • STEERPIKE
    • CULTURE
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS PODCAST
  • Magazine
    • FEATURES
    • COLUMNISTS
    • BOOKS
    • ARTS
    • LETTERS
    • LIFE
    • CARTOONS
  • Writers
    • ROD LIDDLE
    • NICK COHEN
    • DOUGLAS MURRAY
    • FRASER NELSON
    • JAMES FORSYTH
    • ISABEL HARDMAN
    • LIONEL SHRIVER
  • BREXIT
  • Books & Arts
    • ARTS
    • BOOKS
    • BOOKS PODCAST
    • CULTURE HOUSE DAILY
  • Podcasts
    • THE SPECTATOR PODCAST
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS
    • SPECTATOR BOOKS
    • AMERICANO
    • HOLY SMOKE
  • Health
  • Life
  • Money
  • EVENTS
  • More
    • SHOP
    • CARTOONS
    • 2019 DIARY
    • GIFTS
    • EMAIL BULLETINS
    • WINE CLUB
    • SPECTATOR CLUB
SUBSCRIBE | TRY A MONTH FREE

Martin Vander Weyer

Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. He writes the weekly Any Other Business column.

I’m an optimist for trade despite the idiocies of politicians

Martin Vander Weyer 21 April 2018 9:00 am

I’m proud to be a member of the 661-year-old Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York, having qualified…

The US Treasury shows London how to cold-shoulder Putin’s cronies

Martin Vander Weyer 14 April 2018 9:00 am

A decade ago I commissioned an article about Vladimir Putin’s business cronies. Among other lines of enquiry, it sought to…

Call this US-China tit-for-tat a trade war?

Martin Vander Weyer 7 April 2018 9:00 am

‘Stocks plunge as China hits US goods with tariffs,’ said a headline after the long weekend, and the FTSE100 duly…

So farewell Toys ‘R’ Us, the predator that became the prey

Martin Vander Weyer 31 March 2018 9:00 am

I remember the arrival of Toys ‘R’ Us in Britain, because as a young banker in 1984 I was tasked…

Sorry fishermen, but we were never going to win back control of our waters

Martin Vander Weyer 24 March 2018 9:00 am

My decision to vote Remain was driven in part by an exercise in which I tried to identify anyone close…

Advice from the Institute of Directors: prepare for the scandal tornado

Martin Vander Weyer 17 March 2018 9:00 am

As ‘business lobby groups’ go, the Institute of Directors has always struck me as worthy but unexciting: a more authentic…

Announcing the Economic Disruptor of the Year Awards

Martin Vander Weyer 17 March 2018 9:00 am

Human progress has depended on economic disruptors since long before the advent of the internet. The internal combustion engine was…

Can Theresa May find time to be her own housing supremo?

Martin Vander Weyer 10 March 2018 9:00 am

Theresa May has belatedly taken the advice I offered her here last May and named a supremo to tackle the…

Running a bank’s tough. That’s no reason to start handing capital back

Martin Vander Weyer 3 March 2018 9:00 am

A mixed bag of annual results from the big banks. RBS, still 73 per cent owned by the taxpayer, recorded…

Investors were right to sell Carillion shares when they spotted trouble ahead

Martin Vander Weyer 24 February 2018 9:00 am

The fallout from Carillion’s bankruptcy spreads in slow motion — just as the outsourcing and construction giant’s finances gradually stretched…

Could the Serious Fraud Office put an end to Barclays as we know it?

Martin Vander Weyer 17 February 2018 9:00 am

The Serious Fraud Office has upped the stakes in the case of the controversial $3 billion Qatari financing that saved…

Falling US shares tell us only that investors were too excited in January

Martin Vander Weyer 10 February 2018 9:00 am

If you were the incoming or retiring chairman of the Federal Reserve, you might be quietly pleased to see stock…

The real reason hospitals threw back that Presidents Club cash

Martin Vander Weyer 3 February 2018 9:00 am

I visited St Thomas’ Hospital on Monday, to discuss fundraising for a cardiology research project. On the way in, I…

Forget a Channel bridge and celebrate Crossrail

Martin Vander Weyer 27 January 2018 9:00 am

This column has long been a sucker for a grand projet. ‘Time for a trip to Boris Island,’ I gushed…

Outsourcing is a good thing, regardless of the Carillion crash

Martin Vander Weyer 20 January 2018 9:00 am

Carillion is a disaster on all fronts, but my sympathies go first to the fallen contracting giant’s sub–contractors. Upwards of…

Michael Wolff said the US needed a market-charming president: now it has one

Martin Vander Weyer 13 January 2018 9:00 am

I once commissioned Michael Wolff —currently the world’s most talked-about journalist as the author of the White House exposé Fire…

In defence of that £110 million bonus for the boss of Persimmon builders

Martin Vander Weyer 6 January 2018 9:00 am

New Year’s Eve was certainly a day for celebration in the household of 53-year-old Jeff Fairburn, chief executive of the…

Instead of schmoozing at City parties, this year I’m Sarah the Cook in panto

Martin Vander Weyer 16 December 2017 9:00 am

Last Christmas I offered you a cruel satire about a boardroom big-shot whose career went so awry that he ended…

The skulking assassins of the London Stock Exchange

Martin Vander Weyer 9 December 2017 9:00 am

The revenge tragedy at the London Stock Exchange whose plot I outlined last month has reached its third act, but…

A sensible Budget and stronger banks – what could go wrong?

Martin Vander Weyer 2 December 2017 9:00 am

One week you’re fighting to survive the dance-off amid vicious backstage rivalries, the next you’re scoring a perfect ten from…

Dear Chancellor, we can’t make the bricks to build your homes

Martin Vander Weyer 25 November 2017 9:00 am

The Chancellor sounded purposeful when he declared that he’ll do ‘whatever it takes’ to boost the rate of housebuilding —…

Armageddon is coming – how real-life employers are preparing for life under Corbyn

Martin Vander Weyer 18 November 2017 9:00 am

Numerous readers told me they liked my recent tale — offered as an antidote to ‘media sniping at corporate capitalism’…

Yes, Jay Powell is the compromise candidate for the Federal Reserve – but not a bad one at that

Martin Vander Weyer 11 November 2017 9:00 am

Perhaps we should be relieved that Donald Trump has made a dull appointment to succeed Janet Yellen as chairman of…

The City needs to make new friends but is becoming pals with Putin a step too far?

Martin Vander Weyer 4 November 2017 9:00 am

In connection with the receding possibility of a London Stock Exchange listing for Saudi Aramco, I wrote that the City…

Up the Zambezi: why Rio Tinto’s colossal coal cock-up is going to court

Martin Vander Weyer 28 October 2017 9:00 am

Another week, another blue-chip in the dock. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has brought fraud charges against London-based mining…

« 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 … 25 »

Spectator USA

Follow us

Follow us on Twitter @spectator Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @spectatorlife

Most Popular

  • Read
  • Read
    1. Corbynistas go into meltdown over Labour splitters

      Steerpike

    2. Seven MPs leave Labour and form ‘The Independent Group’

      Isabel Hardman

    3. Chuka Umunna identifies the Independent Group’s big flaws

      Steerpike

    4. The Independent Group’s website woes

      Steerpike

    5. Will any Tory MPs join the Independent Group?

      James Forsyth

    6. Is Emmanuel Macron about to call Theresa May’s bluff on the Brexit backstop?

      Fraser Nelson

    7. In praise of the Labour splitters

      Alex Massie

    8. Five questions for Labour’s ‘splitters’

      Isabel Hardman

    9. Tom Watson’s intervention spells trouble for Jeremy Corbyn

      Robert Peston

    10. Watch: Angela Smith apologises over ‘funny tinge’ gaffe

      Steerpike

Editor’s Choice

What would Keynes make of a looming no-deal Brexit?

If children want to protest against climate change, why not do it at the weekend?

How fear and loathing of Nixon sent Hunter S. Thompson crazy

Fun at the EU’s expense: The Capital, by Robert Menasse, reviewed

Cartoons

‘Least said, texted, tweeted, retweeted, Instagrammed, posted, uploaded, shared, blogged, vlogged and Snapchatted, soonest mended.’
‘Least said, texted, tweeted, retweeted, Instagrammed, posted, uploaded, shared, blogged, vlogged and Snapchatted, soonest mended.’
‘At least Chris Grayling isn’t in charge of the ferry.’
‘At least Chris Grayling isn’t in charge of the ferry.’
‘Before you say it, no — you can’t hand in a marriage licence.’
‘Before you say it, no — you can’t hand in a marriage licence.’
‘Oh no! We’ve woken up too early and haven’t missed Brexit!’
‘Oh no! We’ve woken up too early and haven’t missed Brexit!’
‘Brexit? I’m stockpiling for a new statue of Thatcher.’
‘Brexit? I’m stockpiling for a new statue of Thatcher.’
‘A woman aged 55 could have painted it.’
‘A woman aged 55 could have painted it.’
‘A bit late for that — they’ve already appointed Nick Clegg.’
‘A bit late for that — they’ve already appointed Nick Clegg.’
‘On a clear day you can see five county lines drugs rackets.’
‘On a clear day you can see five county lines drugs rackets.’
Click here to find out more about subscribing to The Spectator’s free podcasts

Follow us on Twitter @spectator Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @spectatorlife
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • FAQs
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Jobs and Vacancies
  • More from The Spectator
    • Spectator USA
    • The Spectator Australia
    • Apollo Magazine
    • The Spectator Shop
  • Advertising
    • Classified Advertisements
  • Subscribe
    • Club
    • Email Newsletters
The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP
+44 (0)3303 330 050
Site maintained by Creode
Close
  • Coffee House
    • UK POLITICS
    • EU
    • US POLITICS
    • RELIGION
    • STEERPIKE
    • CULTURE
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS PODCAST
  • Magazine
    • FEATURES
    • COLUMNISTS
    • BOOKS
    • ARTS
    • LETTERS
    • LIFE
    • CARTOONS
  • Writers
    • ROD LIDDLE
    • NICK COHEN
    • DOUGLAS MURRAY
    • FRASER NELSON
    • JAMES FORSYTH
    • ISABEL HARDMAN
    • LIONEL SHRIVER
  • BREXIT
  • Books & Arts
    • ARTS
    • BOOKS
    • BOOKS PODCAST
    • CULTURE HOUSE DAILY
  • Podcasts
    • THE SPECTATOR PODCAST
    • COFFEE HOUSE SHOTS
    • SPECTATOR BOOKS
    • AMERICANO
    • HOLY SMOKE
  • Health
  • Life
  • Money
  • EVENTS
  • More
    • SHOP
    • CARTOONS
    • 2019 DIARY
    • GIFTS
    • EMAIL BULLETINS
    • WINE CLUB
    • SPECTATOR CLUB