Perhaps it’s age, but as a regular reader of the city pages of the UK’s national press, it often seems that the City editors of today are not a patch on their predecessors, such as the Daily Mail’s Patrick Sergeant or the Daily Telegraph’s Ken Fleet. They followed in the footsteps of the legendary Harold Wincott, a former editor of the Investors Chronicle, and Financial Times columnist. All three had an ability to write about business and shares in a way that the non-expert could understand.
One former City editor, who has inherited the same knack of writing in a common sense way about the City and the UK corporate sector, is Neil Collins, who over the years has written for the Sunday Times, Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph. Until recently, he wrote a rather good weekly column for the Financial Times.
Although he can no longer be found in the national press he still writes a very readable weekly column which appears in my inbox every Friday. The latest column makes some interesting points about three very different city stories - Amigo, St James Place and John Lewis. It is free, and you can find it at: https://neilcollinsxxx.wordpress.com/
