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Lionel Barber

Lionel Barber

Financial Times

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Andy Burnham can be the UK's Bill Clinton if he avoids this fatal mistake

Andy Burnham can be the UK's Bill Clinton if he avoids this fatal mistake

You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. Sir Keir Starmer took former New York governor Mario Cuomo’s political maxim to the extreme: in office,...

05.07.2026 20

iNews

Lionel Barber

Labour’s myopic plotters need to grow up

12.05.2026 20

New Statesman

Lionel Barber

4. The Apple half-century

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05.04.2026 20

New Statesman

Lionel Barber

Lloyd Blankfein – guiding light of Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs inspires awe and envy in equal measure. Those who survive the Wall Street investment bank’s annual cull earn fortunes. Leavers join an...

22.03.2026 30

The Spectator

Lionel Barber

Books / Lloyd Blankfein – guiding light of Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs inspires awe and envy in equal measure. Those who survive the Wall Street investment bank’s annual cull earn fortunes. Leavers join an...

22.03.2026 40

The Spectator

Lionel Barber

Lloyd Blankfein – guiding light of Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs inspires awe and envy in equal measure. Those who survive the Wall Street investment bank’s annual cull earn fortunes. Leavers join an...

12.03.2026 40

The Spectator

Lionel Barber

Rachel Reeves is running out of time

Slick messaging is no substitute for sound political judgment when running the UK economy

02.09.2025 20

Financial Times

Lionel Barber

What happened to the original Davos Man?

01.05.2025 10

New Statesman

Lionel Barber