Chris Blackhurst

Elon Musk
Business

Inside the gilded world of the banking elite

The SpaceX listing will make millions for Goldman Sachs, but the image-conscious firm kept its celebrations quiet. Has the finance world changed? Don’t bank on it, says Chris Blackhurst

8 Jun 2026
Business

Man Utd owners and the inside story of 18 long years of hurt

Media Watch: Maybe with better PR, it all would have been different

8 Nov 2023
Comment

Natural gas is the way if we want to avoid energy price inflation hell

Australia and America managed energy price rises by developing their natural gas resources

26 Oct 2023
Comment

Issam Abdallah should not have been killed while war reporting

Journalists risk their lives to bring us stories from places few others would choose to travel towards

21 Oct 2023
Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell.
Business

There are no winners in the Guardian cartoon row, only losers

Media Watch: As a former newspaper editor, I like to think I would put freedom of expression first and let the cartoon through. But would I?

17 Oct 2023
Business

Rishi Sunak’s pledge to halve inflation is now under real threat

If oil and gas deliveries reduce, prices will soar. In anticipation of what may unfold, they have been climbing already

12 Oct 2023
Technology & Media

The Telegraph has drawn a glittering array of bidders. Which will win?

Profitable and influential, the Telegraph is far from a distressed asset

6 Oct 2023
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