Chris Blackhurst

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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

Stop China from undermining the electric car revolution

City Voices: Electric vehicle battery prices have risen for the first time in more than a decade as China tightens its grip on supply of key metal cobalt

8 Dec 2022
Business

Can London’s legal ‘magic circle’ fend off the threat from America?

City Voices: Britain’s big five elite practices face a growing challenge from American legal eagles

29 Nov 2022
Business

Middle East rides on the soft power of sport

City Voices: The World Cup is just one sign of a global shift

17 Nov 2022
Business

The fight goes on to clear the scapegoat of the Libor scandal

City Voices: Veteran traders have nothing but sympathy for Tom Hayes

4 Nov 2022
Business

A moral way the Bank can ease our financial pain

City Voices: How to raise tens of billions to shore up our finances

25 Oct 2022
Business

It’s not good for London if fine dining flees the City for suburbia

City Voices: Scott’s new restaurant in Richmond is a bad sign

14 Oct 2022
Business

Tale of misogny at Goldman Sachs shows need for women bosses

City Voices: Fear and Loathing at Goldman Sachs

30 Sept 2022
Business

Pound signs blind politicians to the flaws of financial titans

City Voices: David Cameron and others were far too eager to advance the bankers

29 Jul 2022
Books

The roller-coaster career of our biggest retail bad boy

A controversial biography of the man who built, and may yet lose, a high-street empire

5 Jul 2018
Books

A Good Time to Be a Girl by Helena Morrissey - review

The world according to Ms 30 per cent

1 Feb 2018
Business

Saatchi Mad Man who struck gold in the glitzy days

Digital’s big but don’t write off  TV, says veteran of the industry’s party times

12 Feb 2016
Business

Wikipedia wizard turns hand to mobiles that ring up cash for charities

Go-to reference site founder finds fresh excitement  as social media reshapes world

5 Feb 2016
Business

Battles with a bear and Northern Rock make new FCA chief fit for role

First task of new regulator — who may one day be Bank of England Governor — is to restore morale

29 Jan 2016
Business

Alison Platt: The woman flying high at Britain's biggest estate agent

The ex-BA flight attendant with 50 High Street chains is now trying to revive Tesco too

22 Jan 2016