2 h. ago RUTH SUNDERLAND: Steel was my dad's life. He'd be appalled at Labour's abject failure to protect an industry so vital to our security

This Christmas Eve will be poignant for my family because it will be 30 years to the day since my father, Alan, died.

Events

19 h. ago Equitable Life savers are caught in a financial scandal that never ends, says RUTH SUNDERLAND

The collapse of life insurance company Equitable Life happened 25 years ago this month but is still casting a long shadow.

Events

19 h. ago Pass the Equitable parcel: Some financial scandals never quite end, says RUTH SUNDERLAND

The collapse of life insurance company Equitable Life happened 25 years ago this month but is still casting a long shadow.

Politics

52 h. ago RUTH SUNDERLAND: We need enlightened capitalism not crude socialism at Christmas

Without that, we will get neither prosperity nor social justice - just more Scrooges, and fewer Cadburys.

Politics

2 w. ago Plot twist from Paramount as Netflix seeks to upset the Hollywood old order: RUTH SUNDERLAND

Paramount Skydance's £81bn hostile bid to gatecrash Netflix's takeover of Warner Bros Discovery has dramatically raised the stakes.

Politics

2 w. ago The £30,000 pension timebomb as savers are left to sort their own retirement: RUTH SUNDERLAND

The notion that millions of people can manage without access to proper financial advice is, frankly, for the birds.

Economics

2 w. ago RUTH SUNDERLAND: 'Advice gap' for pensioners is a ticking timebomb

The notion that millions of people can manage without access to proper financial advice is, frankly, for the birds.

Events

2 w. ago Canary Wharf's boom shows Britain doesn't need to have a glum future: RUTH SUNDERLAND

Wharf boss Sir Nigel Wilson believes the area is a prototype for other cities and towns in the UK.

Politics

3 w. ago RUTH SUNDERLAND: This folly on pensions is straight from her mentor Gordon Brown's playbook

The art of taxation, according to Louis XIV's finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, is to pluck from the goose the maximum number of feathers while provoking the minimum of hissing.

Politics

last month RUTH SUNDERLAND: I fear Reeves will wreak irreversible harm on our pensions

The art of taxation, according to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister for Louis XIV, is to pluck from the goose the maximum number of feathers while provoking the minimum of hissing.

Politics