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Boss Simon Thompson insists the pandemic has triggered “a structural shift”, turbocharging demand for parcels and accelerating the long-term decline in letters. Despite a mini-revival in recent months, letter deliveries are a fifth lower than before coronavirus erupted. Yet this is Royal Mail. For a company that has been bringing …

ALEX BRUMMER: Royal London plays the long game in battle for LV with its pledge to keep the insurer mutual By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50, 16 November 2021 | Updated: 21:52, 16 November 2021 The battle that has been unleashed for control of LV and the …

RUTH SUNDERLAND: As things stand, banks are pretty much the only ones on the hook when it comes to fraud, but telecoms companies and social media giants must be held accountable too By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50, 3 October 2021 | Updated: 22:56, 3 October 2021 …

It is so long ago now but, in 2019, I said in this column I would train up and enter my first triathlon. The whole of 2020 was pretty much a wipe out for casual triathletes like me. They got the Blenheim Palace Triathlon on but not much else and, …

The only thing Back’s £1.8bn “transformation plan” succeeded in transforming was relations with the unions, and not for the better. He infuriated the Communication Workers Union, first by trying to force through changes to pay and working conditions while commuting from his luxury Swiss apartment, then refusing to jet into Britain …

MATT HANCOCK: Taking Covid tests at work can pave way to a brighter year for everyone By Matt Hancock For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16, 6 February 2021 | Updated: 22:16, 6 February 2021 There are lots of reasons to feel optimistic about the year ahead, especially now that …

ALEX BRUMMER: Glaxo looks to the future as it reveals fresh efforts to defeat all mutations of the coronavirus By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51, 3 February 2021 Despite its amazing vaccine credentials, GlaxoSmithKline has not had a good war against …

It takes talent for a parcel-delivery company not to prosper during the current conditions, when online shopping for non-essentials is the only sort of shopping allowed. Still, the Royal Mail is making a pretty good fist of it. The world seems to be full of delivery vans, yet the former …

Christmas. It’s not just a day. It’s a feeling. Just ask Mariah and Bing. How then to describe the anger, the anguish, the grief of December 2020? We’ve dreamed of this Christmas like no other. Yearned for it in a year of lost lives and shattered livelihoods. Just days ago …

The last chairman of the Federal Reserve to move from the US central bank to the US Treasury – G William Miller – did so at a moment of turmoil. In the final years of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, inflation was out of control, unemployment rising and the dollar falling like …