The decision by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, to give an interview to the BBC's business editor Robert Peston, in Radio Four's File on Four special, may turn out, when the dust is settled, to be the longest exit interview in recen ...
TV's eternal optimist had the right idea. Things do get better, says Cole Moreton. No, really Where's Del Boy when you need him? He used to pop up every year on the Only Fools and Horses festive special with another mad scheme, looking his little brother...
Sir: If Robert Peston is the only route through which the government is prepared to take a leak, which part of the body politic does that make him? Giles Rowe London SW12...
The cover of the hardback version of Who Runs Britain? , Robert Peston's masterly dissection of how the global economy got into the mess it's in today, features an abstract version of the Union Jack. On the front of the paperback version published last week, however, we are treated to...
The IoS Diary The financial meltdown will be debated in the House of Lords tomorrow. Among those speaking are some formidable experts on economics, including John Maynard Keynes's biographer, Lord Skidelsky, two former Chancellors of the Exchequer, Lords Lamont and Lawson, and Lord Desai, a top...
Credit Crash Britain - HBOS: Breaking the Bank 7.30PM BBC2 A new series about the global recession begins with Paul Mason from 'Newsnight', "the thinking person's Robert Peston", on the dramatic downfall of HBOS. Little Dorrit 8.30PM BBC1...
The story involving George Osborne, Peter Mandelson, Oleg Deripaska and Nat Rothschild may seem fiendishly complicated, but there is a key which, once inserted in the right place, unlocks a great deal. The key is PR. There are three names that keep on popping up - those...
The recession is on and the blame game is in full swing. Everyone money-related seems to be copping it - from the "fat cat"' bankers to Alistair Darling and, most ridiculously, the BBC business editor, Robert Peston, for doing his job. The latest in the firing line...
Unreported World 7.35PM CHANNEL 4 Kerala in southern India promotes itself as "God's Own Country", and there are 3,000 "godmen" operating in this one state alone, some of them given to corruption and sexual abuse. Jenny Kleeman's energetic report doorsteps some of these dodgy...
FOR a nation transfixed by the worst weeks of financial upheaval in recent memory, BBC business editor Robert Peston has become the face of the crisis. Appearing morning, noon and night on BBC TV and radio bulletins with the latest updates and filling in the details on...
Randall staying put after failed ITV bid Ever since Britain's economy began to head south, bosses at ITV News have been facing a dilemma: how to compete with Robert Peston. The BBC's ubiquitous business editor has become the voice of the credit crunch ever...
Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor, is probably the most powerful British journalist I have known in my lifetime. A word from him in recent weeks could bring down a bank - or save it. This is a remarkable state of affairs, and we need to examine whether he uses...
The worst week ever? Friday was grisly - financial markets in free fall, television screens covered with red figures. Robert Peston on the news, eyes staring wildly, mouth contorted in a rictus grin, delivering impenetrable information about the crisis, with his speech crashing through five gears like a 1930s roadster....
When Robert Peston became business editor of the BBC in February 2006, his future stardom could hardly have been foreseen. After a 23- year career in newspapers, including stints at both Independent titles, The Sunday Telegraph and the Financial Times, he had never worked in television. He suffered from a...
This is a time for making the most of small mercies. One of the greatest of these, as the financial system collapses around us, is the splendid joke that is Robert Peston of the BBC. His extraordinarily camp, over-emphatic delivery would be perfect for reporting glitzy Broadway first...
Ben Bernanke tops the bestseller charts Poor Ben Bernanke is assailed for failing to predict the severity of the credit crisis, but it is not all doom and gloom for the brainy Fed chairman. Whichever way the economy turns out, it looks like he'll pick up a...
Hit & Run... My 84-year-old mother has strong likes and dislikes about people on the telly. Warmly welcomed are Andrew Marr, Emily Maitlis and Jeremy Paxman. David Dimbleby can make her quite giddy and girlish. And then there are the personae non gratae, headed by Graham...
INTERVIEW ROBERT PESTON From breaking news of Northern Rock's woes to revealing Lloyds TSB's takeover of HBOS, Robert Peston has held centre stage in the unfolding drama of the financial crisis. The BBC business editor reveals his methods to Ian Burrell During the Falklands War...
Sarah Sands hails the City voice of reason A phrase often used by Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor, when I worked with him at The Sunday Telegraph, was: "I knew that." It was said by him in earnest and by others as a tease. Any...
Never far from those 3am press briefings Amanda Platell, poison-penned columnist at the 'Daily Mail', is not everyone's cup of tea. Notorious for her savage attacks on the sisterhood, victims of her tirades range from Fern Britton to "Waity Katey" Middleton. But news of a gruesome...
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