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Chris Blackhurst

Chris Blackhurst

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Chris Blackhurst is an award-winning writer, commentator and broadcaster, based in London. He is a former editor of The Independent, city editor of the Evening Standard, Westminster correspondent for The Independent and deputy head of the Sunday Times Insight team. He writes mostly on business, politics, media. He says he will never retire. To adapt Dr Johnson on London: "If someone tires of journalism, they tire of life."
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A delighted Dana White watches on as Donald Trump speaks at an election night event in Palm Beach, Florida on Wednesday. AP
CommentDana White enters political limelight

UFC boss enjoyed rapid rise from Bostonian boxer to billionaire promoter, popular with non-college educated white males

CommentNovember 06, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Farmers drive tractors past parliament during a demonstration against UK food policy earlier this year. AFP
UK farmers could launch French-style revolt over new inheritance tax raid

Cash-poor but asset-rich families fear they will lose out in measures designed to target large estates

OpinionNovember 05, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Britain's Chancellor Rachel Reeves presenting this year's budget statement in the House of Commons. UK Parliament
CommentReeves's budget clobbers the people she needs to invest in Britain

The Chancellor wants people to put their money into the UK, but will punish them each time they put their hands in their pockets

OpinionOctober 30, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Great British Energy will be spending £8.3bn on projects in renewables, in offshore wind, hydrogen power, tidal power, carbon capture and nuclear power. PA
UK's energy ambition misses nuclear solution to digital future

Keir Starmer should be working to ensure nuclear is a major part of the solution to Britain’s future power plans

OpinionOctober 22, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
The MSG Sphere July 4th fireworks show in 2023, in Las Vegas. AP
CommentUK rues its political failures as the Sphere goes to Abu Dhabi

Founder Dolan wasn’t prepared to allow his iconic ball arena to become a political football.

CommentOctober 19, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Investors have used the war in Ukraine to justify buying shares in weapons manufacturers that were once taboo. Getty Images
CommentDefence stocks lined up to offer lifeline to ESG as investors fade away

Investment category based on ethical concerns has been buffeted by retreats like that of BP from net-zero goals

OpinionOctober 15, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Dinner at St Paul's Cathedral is on the menu at the investment summit. PA/AP
Looming tax rises threatens UK's £30bn investment summit

Labour clobbering companies with higher taxes will not be a good look for Keir Starmer at the UK's mini-Davos

CommentOctober 09, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
With Britain committed to net zero emissions by 2050, Port Talbot stood out as a blot on the horizon. Reuters
UK in crosshairs of net zero targets with an electric dilemma to solve

Move towards net zero could start to be viewed as a cost rather than a positive step forward

OpinionOctober 01, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
The towering Samson and Goliath cranes at Harland & Wolff shipyard, a hallmark of the Belfast skyline. AFP
British government in a quandary over the sinking ship of Harland & Wolff

Keir Starmer's team must decide if they are to step in with a loan to keep the Belfast shipyard afloat

OpinionSeptember 24, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Boris Johnson has gone into business with a uranium energy executive and a woman he appointed to the House of Lords. AFP
CommentBoris Johnson caught between chasing money and politics

Britain's party political conference season is well under way but ex-prime minister is far from the fray

OpinionSeptember 20, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
The Spectator now has a more tech-savvy readership. Bloomberg
CommentThe Spectator fulfils its promise, sold as one-of-a-kind trophy asset

A digital future means the capacity exists for all manner of spin-offs under the magazine's historic banner

OpinionSeptember 10, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Britain's business community is braced for what is coming. Bloomberg
Keir Starmer's tax rises and drumroll makes relocation a temptation for executives

Trust won before Labour's general election victory has all but perished

CommentSeptember 03, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Waheed Alli's links to the UK's youth subculture endeared him to Labour's inner circle for decades. Getty Images
Who is Waheed Alli, the Labour donor in Starmer cronyism row?

TV executive and life peer held no formal job in government but was given unrestricted access

CommentAugust 27, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure from unions to accept pay demands for public sector workers. PA
CommentStarmer's fragile honeymoon threatened as Labour bows to unions

Britain faces 1970s-style tumult if it fails to rein in unruly public sector unions

OpinionAugust 20, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
Asda is no longer the company of firsts that won customers and profits. Getty Images
Blunt call for change at the top exposes struggles at stumbling giant Asda

Chairman Stuart Rose has been publicly critical of performance and suggested co-owner Mohsin Issa step aside from its daily running

CommentAugust 14, 2024
Chris Blackhurst
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