Victor Hill

The Gym Business Is Not a Fad – It’s Here to Stay

I read an interesting article[i] recently in the Daily Telegraph by the film critic Robbie Collin which helped to explain…

Post Card from Deep France

We are driving on the A64 motorway, spindling south westwards from Toulouse, and, were we to follow it all the…

Books II: We might live in a cyber world yet the printing presses are still running

Do you remember the paperless office? This was the dream that we were peddled in the early 1980s by people…

Russia, China and Iran: Should We Ever Invest in Bad Boys?

As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. Emerging markets once lured investors with the promise of rich…

Pearson PLC: a British champion of learning

On 23 July, those of us who love the Financial Times were shocked to learn that its owner, Pearson PLC…

Primark’s Secret: Thrift is Cool

The Credit Crunch of 2008, and its aftermath, changed the way we think and spend. From the time that the…

Carnival: Cruising to a Nice Return

How will you spend your holidays, this summer? We all need them and we are prepared to pay good money…

Winners and losers in Mr Osborne’s Brave New World

On 08 July George Osborne delivered the first budget from a Conservative government since Ken Clark stood at the House…

The only rival Google fears

Microsoft changed our lives. I couldn’t have written this article without their technology, and you couldn’t read it. Some say…

Thomas Cook Group will get beyond this mess

The conventional wisdom, until recently, was that consumer services had been blown out of the water by the advent of…