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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    The government has been following the blueprint for a failing firm

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    UK equities
    Why UK shares will stay cheap

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

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    Abrdn Plc
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
    Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders
    Wanted: fast-growth companies seek willingness to handle legal risk

    Challenges proliferate on all fronts when disruptive businesses expand

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
    Utilities
    UK’s washed-up water watchdog is part of a bigger problem

    Ofwat’s shortcomings are a sign of Britain’s wider economic regulation failings

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    Cineworld Group PLC
    Cinema can’t shake its case of long Covid

    Debt restructurings at Cineworld and Vue show an industry only slowly returning to health

  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    Financial services
    Truss’s idea for City regulation belongs in the past

    The last thing the UK needs is the FSA redux

  • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow’s hopelessness is its faux helplessness

    A controversial passenger cap is not the airport’s major failing

  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    UK energy
    The energy price cap is a relic of another era

    A former backstop in the domestic energy market has become its primary feature

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Telecoms
    An inflation wheeze is dialling up sales for telecoms providers

    Innocuous-sounding increases of 3.9% plus inflation are a key element of improving results at BT, Vodafone UK and Virgin

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