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Cat Rutter Pooley writes columns about UK business, and the FT's daily City Bulletin newsletter. Cat is a former corporate lawyer turned journalist, who worked at Slaughter and May and Osborne Clarke before joining the FT in 2016.

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  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    UK insurance industry
    Are reinsurers finally facing a reckoning?

    High prices for natural catastrophe cover are here — how long they stick could depend on climate risk appetite

    This aerial photo shows damaged homes and debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian
  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Coal
    Coal mine approval sends UK green credentials up in smoke

    Steel policy should focus on decarbonisation not fossil fuel mining

    An aerial view of the site in Cumbria where coal is to be mined
  • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
    UK labour disputes
    Why private sector strikes are not all about the money

    Disputes at Royal Mail and the railways will not be solved with pay rises alone

    RMT union members on the picket line outside Euston station, London, in October
  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone needs a radical new chief to bring about real change

    Ousting Nick Read is an overdue but insufficient step on the way to improving the telecoms company

    Former Vodafone chief executive Nick Read
  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    UK universities
    Student housing is the bubble that won’t burst

    Budget squeezes are no match for a sector with a structural supply shortfall

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
    Energy sector
    Missing: bright ideas for fixing Britain’s broken energy system

    Current turmoil justifies Ofgem focus on stability but it needs to start thinking longer term

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    The National Lottery
    National Lottery: how to gamble £600mn of public money

    What looked like lose-lose bet for Gambling Commission on a new operator might turn out OK

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    Financial services
    The curious case of Britain’s ‘missing’ banking jobs

    Falling employment in financial services may add to City angst

    A branch of Lloyds Bank in the City of London
  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    Property sector
    Homeowners are not the only ones hurt by the mortgage mess

    Generation rent is in the midst of an affordability squeeze

    To let signs on a Birmingham street
  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Corporate governance
    British boards need to get over themselves

    Shareholder engagement can be improved — but directors cannot regard investors as an inconvenience

    Employees walking to work in the city at sunrise
  • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
    Batteries
    Britishvolt: the UK’s EV strategy can’t run on fumes

    Government support is needed for Britain’s battery sector — but not necessarily for this particular start-up

    A rendering of Britishvolt’s planned plant in Blyth
  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    UK energy
    How not to fix the cost of living crisis

    Social tariffs are an option when energy support ends. But the government has to stop repeating mistakes from other sectors

    A smart meter on a kitchen work surface showing the households current energy consumption and costs
  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Made.com Design Ltd
    Made.com is the Covid trade come unstuck

    IPO price relied on assuming furniture retailer’s millennial market was exceptional and that pandemic trading was not

    Pedestrians pass a Made.com store in London
  • Monday, 24 October, 2022
    City of London
    Sunak and the City: business hopes for a twist-free sequel

    Financial services’ fall from favour may be an acceptable price to pay for stability

    Rishi Sunak
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    UK economy
    UK business now needs better than Liz Truss

    The government has been following the blueprint for a failing firm

    Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    UK equities
    Why UK shares will stay cheap

    A valuation gap is hard to close when investors hate all equities

    Vodafone display on the South Bank in London
  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    Investing in funds
    Is one of Britain’s biggest asset managers past repair?

    Abrdn is a victim of more than sectoral decline

  • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
    UK tax
    How to make a mess of an energy windfall tax

    A cap on UK renewables revenues risks being both complex and underwhelming

    Wind turbines in Anglesey
  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    UK energy
    Truss’s obstinacy spells trouble for energy too

    Failure to ‘roll the pitch’ earlier on power conservation has made support scheme unnecessarily costly

    A saucepan sits on a gas stove, next to a smart meter
  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
    UK banks
    The jeopardy for banks in Kwarteng’s City chaos

    Rate rises should help large lenders, but the speed of economic unravelling complicates everything

    Bank of England building in London
  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
    Legal services
    Wanted: fast-growth companies seek willingness to handle legal risk

    Challenges proliferate on all fronts when disruptive businesses expand

    Male and female entrepreneurs brainstorming over document during meeting in office
  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    Peter Cowgill
    The age of the retail kingpin is not over

    Peter Cowgill’s unusual exit deal from JD Sports shows the enduring power of the rag trade tycoon

    Peter Cowgill with the-then Prince Charles at a branch of JD Sports earlier this year
  • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
    Inside BusinessUK companies
    Britain’s ‘Big Four’ supermarkets have an Aldi problem

    Discounter and rival Lidl are to Tesco and co what Ryanair and easyJet were to British Airways

  • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    What John Lewis gets right about British shoppers

    Talk of the ‘moments economy’ is marketing guff but may serve the retailer well anyway

    People queue outside John Lewis on Oxford Street in London
  • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
    Royal Mail PLC
    Royal Mail is in a royal mess

    A dissatisfied workforce is just one of many problems facing the UK’s postal service

    Royal Mail workers demonstrate outside Belfast Town Hall
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