Chris Blackhurst

Business

Top US lawyer faces questioning over torture allegations

Arthur Newbold, former general counsel for Dechert, is to be subpoenaed about activities of its ex-head of fraud in London

7 Mar 2025
HS2 project
Transport & Logistics

Did the North even want HS2 in the first place?

City Voices: The ‘King of the North’ was singing a different tune only eight months ago

6 Oct 2023
Business

Does Lachlan have the cojones to take on his father’s empire?

Whereas Rupert is passionate about newspapers, being an inky through and through, Lachlan has displayed relatively little interest in them

26 Sept 2023
Business

Fawning over Fayed? We’re all as guilty as each other

Media Watch: Anyone who was deemed a threat to the former Harrods owner was silenced. And we editors played our part, too

19 Sept 2023
Business

It’s not vandalism to dream of reviving the Curzon Mayfair

City Voices: Contrary to how he’s being presented, Dan Zaum is not aiming to scrap the beloved Mayfair cinema

14 Sept 2023
Business

A challenge to the impersonal nightmare of today’s banking

City voices: All is not lost, there may yet be hope

5 Sept 2023
Business

Starmer or Sunak? Rupert Murdoch might just sit this one out

Media Watch: Murdoch’s support was crucial for Blair in 1997 but the media mogul may not yet be convinced over Labour at the next election

29 Aug 2023
Business

‘Don’t do a Rose’ — New rules for bosses after NatWest chief’s exit

Media Watch: NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose was seen as one of the safest pairs of hands in the City. Now businesses are on red alert

22 Aug 2023
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc Chairman Howard Davis Interview
Business

The NatWest head that should really roll for the Farage bank farrago

City Voices: Howard Davies must go immediately, and frankly, the rest of his fellow, seemingly makeweight directors with him.

28 Jul 2023
Comment

The City liked what it saw with Labour in ’97. It’s the same now

Commentary: Labour is heading for No 10 as business is fed up with the Tories

25 Jul 2023
Business

Coutts’ grandees were fools to part with Nigel Farage’s money

City Voices: Heads must roll at NatWest owned bank

21 Jul 2023
Saks Fifth Avenue + Vanity Fair: 2016 International Best Dressed List Celebration
Business

Whoever said print was dying forgot to tell Air Mail’s Graydon Carter

Air Mail is now big enough to support ‘a large-scale print magazine’ later this year. It will be heading for coffee tables everywhere.

18 Jul 2023
Business

Eco-friendly boasts risk being called out for ‘greenwashing’

City Voices: Where climate change is concerned, the stakes are too high for any thing but the truth

14 Jul 2023
Business

Online Safety Bill: Seize this chance to crack down on online fraud

City voices: One change that would make a substantial difference is to require social media platforms to enable users to see whether accounts are verified

7 Jul 2023
Business

The Bank of England isn’t giving us facts we need on ‘greedflation’

City Voices: Bank ought to be on top of everything. It isn’t.

30 Jun 2023
Business

Supermarket profiteering has given way to PR game, for now

City Voices: You don’t think they’re cutting prices out of the goodness of their hearts, do you?

21 Jun 2023
Business

The FCA is tying itself in knots on non-financial misconduct

The FCA should pull back and let the police and courts do their work

15 Jun 2023
Business News

Inside the (very) secret world of the Barclays and their tangled web

With their showpiece Telegraph up for sale amid a banking feud, Chris Blackhurst on the family in the eye of a business storm

9 Jun 2023