More & more these days I find I rely on the business pages for real, timely news about what matters in the world. Short, to the point, & wide ranging
Just one small instance from the not too distant past. A single paragraph told of the storms which had devastated the Italian basil crop. Some 3 days later this appeared on the main news pages, with most of the space taken up by a photograph of a farmer who presented a suitably Tuscan image
One does not, generally, expect socialism in the business leader comment. So the following from Antonia Senior on UK domestic energy prices came as a bit of a surprise:
Government intervention in markets can rarely be justified, but when the market is breeding the type of inequality that a society should be ashamed of, then ministers should rush to intervene
