Want to get SUPER-RICH? Well, here’s how NOT to do it – by a superbly witty misery-guts

The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money And Other People Can’t William Leith Bloomsbury £20 Rating: Books telling you how to get rich quick are every bit as popular as misery memoirs. Perhaps the impulse to read them springs from the same root. It is easy to imagine a couple on deck chairs, the … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: RIP Dad… now I can see why the hospital sent you home

Hospital Special: Fighting Covid-19 Rating: On the afternoon of March 28, a Saturday, my father was taken by ambulance to the Royal Free Hospital in North London suffering from severe breathlessness and chest pains. No one was allowed to go with him. He was discharged at 3am on the Sunday morning, and then died later … Read more

HEALTH NOTES: App gives voice to Covid patients on ventilators 

HEALTH NOTES: App gives voice to Covid patients on ventilators By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 16 May 2020 Covid-19 patients struggling to communicate in intensive care have been given a voice thanks to a groundbreaking new app. The program, which can be downloaded free on … Read more

Trojan Global Income’s boss sensed turmoil ahead

Trojan Global Income’s boss sensed turmoil ahead before coronavirus pandemic hit By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 16 May 2020 Investment house Troy Asset Management, established 20 years ago by Lord Weinstock, is a ‘conservative’ investor in financial assets.  It is as much concerned … Read more

Vital lessons investors can learn from coronavirus crisis

When it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic, every day is a school day – and that isn’t just because many parents (myself included) are having to teach our children about fronted adverbials at the same time as working from home.  As we scan the news for information, we are all learning a great deal about … Read more

Entrepreneurs thinking on their feet during lockdown

The world is looking very different from how it did a few months ago, before coronavirus struck and sent economies into meltdown.  As a result, the country’s army of small businesses is having to take a leaf out of Darwin’s book – and adapt to survive.  The Mail on Sunday has spoken to the entrepreneurial … Read more

Bank customers who insist they’re victims of Kafkaesque injustice

We’re still here helping you look after your money.’ So goes the latest advert for NatWest, set against a backdrop of a deserted high street and featuring some of its younger employees cheerily imploring customers to use its mobile phone app.  All in all, a rather reassuring message for its millions of business and personal … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banking in kangaroo court must stop

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banking in a kangaroo court has to stop: Robots are taking over the proverbial asylum By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 16 May 2020 There’s nothing wrong with online banking. Like most people, I embrace it and am often found in … Read more

Rise of robot workers will mean more nurses on front line

In America, some frontline workers battling the coronavirus crisis aren’t being given any time off. They’re nose to the grindstone, around the clock without so much as a toilet break or a cup of coffee to keep them going.  Even in these strange times, it sounds like the sort of slave labour that would trigger … Read more

HAMISH MCRAE: London must flourish as lockdown lifts

London is creeping back to work, but the scars will last a while. All giant cities will be damaged, for they are centres for the entertainment and hospitality industries as well as transport hubs. So New York and Paris will be damaged too.  But there are troubling reasons to suspect that the London economy may … Read more