ICYMI Eye-opening remark in my colleague Irwin Stelzer's column from this weekend in which he recalls accurately predicting the election of Harry Truman... in 1948! thetimes.com/article/13ce41…

What's next for high-street stalwart Boots? Sam Chambers was given the tour thetimes.com/article/fda600…

Fascinating news here that Boots wants to use Advantage Card data to help match patients with clinical trials..

Ministers are to give fresh scrutiny of ‘Czech Sphinx’ Daniel Kretinsky’s bid to buy Royal Mail. Should the deal be waved through?

Scoop: BDO set to scale back growth and improve audit quality a la KPMG post-Carillion thetimes.com/article/683627…

Life inside Britain's last coal power plant. My Sunday Times Magazine debut. With fabulous pictures. Read it here: thetimes.com/article/8ce8ab…

“So, for us, ‘lad’ is a gender neutral term…” The Sunday Times business interview this week is Solly Solomou, the boss of LADbible Group. Set up above a printer shop in Leeds, it’s today worth £260m. Read my interview from Manchester here: thetimes.com/article/8431de…

Really good reporting from Laith. The issue's not going away...

McDonald's plans to open more than 200 new restaurants in the UK and Ireland, taking its total to 1,700. Do we need more McDonald's?

Grant Thornton preparing to offload 60% stake to PE firms next month when it kicks off a sales process!1!1!1! Bridgepoint and Cinven joining the cavalcade of barbarians at the GT gate hoping to get a chunk. thetimes.com/article/695d2c…

The Crown Estate has mapped every square kilometre of our coast to speed up the roll out of off-shore wind turbines. They've identified the green zones (where they're cheaper to build) - and we have a handy map. Ben Spencer explains it all this week: thetimes.com/business-money…

Corker of a diary story in the Sunday Times today from William Turvill - Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey was looking trim at a conference last week, so we asked him if he'd been on an exercise regime. Bailey said: "I'm happy to reduce something else as well as inflation!"

ICYMI Not just any clothing store.. etc. Interesting move by M&S...

Private jet firms eye Europe... where most sensible people would surely take the train! By Oliver Gill thetimes.com/article/7daf40…

PwC plans to keep track of staff attendance in the office. Should workers be monitored like this or can they be trusted to turn up?

I stepped on board a hydrogen-powered coach this week (well, a city bus that had been converted). It seemed like time to ask again: will hydrogen ever take off? thetimes.com/article/ceb026…

Great story... I bet Ocado will be looking over their shoulder

This is an essential primer from Oliver Gill on what's at stake for the steel industry in the coming weeks thetimes.com/article/108c8e…

The Lloyd's of London insurance market wants to tackle "unacceptable" behaviour, including by targeting drinking culture. Is the liquid lunch dead?

With 7,000 buildings yet to be assessed, it will take another 25 years to fix Britain’s #cladding crisis. In the middle, more than 500,000 leaseholders are trapped in potentially lethal flats Why is it taking so long to fix Britain’s cladding nightmare? thetimes.com/article/c9b4de…