Patrick Hosking
Articles by Patrick Hosking
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Business
The business - Patrick Hosking exposes Piers Morgan's assassins
- 24 May 2004
City fund managers called for Piers Morgan's head, yet they never had to come forward and give their names. They are today's harlots, wielding power without responsibility
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking explains how banks shape our lives
- 17 May 2004
British banks will determine our future: they are the single biggest chunk of the UK economy, and HSBC alone is worth 36 times the value of ICI
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking wonders about the Google floatation
- 10 May 2004
The creators of Google risk ending up like Anita Roddick, their ideals increasingly sidelined by commercial priorities and with diminished control over their company
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking traces the decline of W H Smith
- 03 May 2004
W H Smith, whose money-making magic endured for two centuries, is today "strategically challenged" by a pincer movement of supermarkets and bookshops such as Waterstone's
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking warns the house bubble will burst
- 26 April 2004
Further steep rises in house prices don't prove that those who predict a collapse are wrong. On the contrary, they make such a collapse all the more likely
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking hears Tollopian echoes in a tunnel
- 19 April 2004
Even "a drop of som'at hot", which served Anthony Trollope's fictional tycoon so well, may not be enough to save Eurotunnel
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking hails a workers' co-op as a star
- 05 April 2004
As the supermarket wars grow more vicious, Waitrose is proving that a worker co-operative can be far more profitable than a family-run business such as the once-mighty Sainsbury's
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking wants more naming and shaming
- 29 March 2004
The Financial Services Authority has found instances of unit trusts allowing small punters to be diddled out of millions of pounds in total. Does it name and shame? Not a bit of it
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking fears more Equitable Lifes
- 22 March 2004
Equitable Life management glossed over the truth in the days when executive pay packages provided little incentive to do so. Today the temptations to conceal losses are much greater
Business
The business - Patrick Hosking wonders if M&S can be made over
- 15 March 2004
The design industry desperately wants Vittorio Radice to succeed at Marks & Spencer. But it should recall how badly Sir Terence Conran failed at Bhs
