Ben Marlow

London

Associate Editor and Columnist at The Telegraph

Contributor at Freelance

Associate editor and columnist, Telegraph

Articles

'I can save Britain from Spain-style blackouts'

4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Marlow

He described Labour's energy policy under net-zero evangelist Ed Miliband as "very muddled". "I don't think the investments are being made in the right place," Truell added. He pointed to the £22bn that has been set aside to invest in various carbon capture projects in the North West and North East of England, with three quarters of the outlay expected to be recovered via customer bills.
Boohoo turnaround jeopardised by fresh financial squeeze

4 days ago | finance.yahoo.com | Ben Marlow

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has amassed a 29pc stake in Boohoo - Yui Mok/PA The beleaguered fast-fashion empire Boohoo is facing a fresh financial squeeze as it turns to unorthodox and costly lenders to prop up its heavy debt load. In moves likely to ratchet up tensions between the company and its arch-nemesis Mike Ashley, Boohoo is in talks about a debt package of up to £175m that City sources warn could come with punishing rates attached.
Boohoo turnaround jeopardised by fresh financial squeeze

5 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Marlow

The beleaguered fast-fashion empire Boohoo is facing a fresh financial squeeze as it turns to unorthodox and costly lenders to prop up its heavy debt load. In moves likely to ratchet up tensions between the company and its arch-nemesis Mike Ashley, Boohoo is in talks about a debt package of up to £175m that City sources warn could come with punishing rates attached. The Manchester-based group has held discussions about tapping the so-called high-yield loan market for £50m of the proposed total.
Ed Miliband's net zero target is now in tatters

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Marlow

What's more, the country has a right to know what plan B is if wind can no longer be counted on to contribute as much as expected. Will mini-nukes become a bigger part of the mix, and if so, are they as reliable as proponents claim? Should interconnectors become more prevalent, particularly if they can help reduce the likelihood of major blackouts, or are they too expensive and difficult to build?
Spain’s blackouts prove why Britain must start taking nuclear seriously

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ben Marlow

With three separate ongoing corruption investigations into people close to him, including his own wife and brother, you would think Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, would be more adept at navigating crises. Yet, his handling of the electricity blackout that crippled the country has been terrible.
Spain's blackouts prove why Britain must start taking nuclear seriously

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Marlow

Mini-nukes aren't expected to be cheap exactly, but with a projected cost of £1.8bn a piece, according to Rolls-Royce, they represent a far more affordable prospect than Hinkley, for example - currently on course to cost as much as £34bn at the last count. They are easier and quicker to build too, meaning they can be rolled out at scale, and comparable to a football pitch in size, demonstrably less intrusive than their monster counterparts.
Good riddance to Britain’s most over-hyped company

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Marlow

London’s dwindling prospects as a global financial centre are the subject of endless agonising. Together, ministers, regulators, entrepreneurs and prominent business figures are desperately hunting for ways to halt the City’s seemingly endless decline – with little, if anything, to show for their efforts. The elephant in the room that few seem prepared to acknowledge is the number of stock market duds that the capital has served up, burning countless investors in the process.
Good riddance to Britain's most over-hyped company

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Marlow

Partly, the company benefitted from beating its rivals past the post and, in doing so, faced less scepticism about the extent to which it was largely a beneficiary of a temporary lockdown lift. By the time Deliveroo pressed the button, it was a race against time to get the float away before the third lockdown ended, the pubs and restaurants quickly filled up again and takeaway orders dried up. A delay of just weeks and Deliveroo almost certainly wouldn't have seemed so appetising.
BP under pressure to cut jobs in Britain

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Marlow

Green energy backtrackElliott is also urging the company to abandon a series of UK offshore wind farms and scores of solar projects across America, as it ramps up pressure on BP to pare back its ambitions to be a green energy pioneer. The $70bn fund wants the company to pull out of renewable power generation altogether in what would amount to a more emphatic reversal of its commitment to net zero targets than the one recently outlined.
Reeves has wrecked the hopes of China’s high street predator

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Marlow

The fallout from Donald Trump’s indiscriminate trade war has been almost universally grim. Global markets have been hammered, obliterating trillions of dollars of wealth around the world while undermining financial stability, the IMF has warned. The debt markets are jamming up, making it infinitely harder for businesses of all shapes and sizes to raise finance. A cascade of insolvencies may be around the corner. Even the mighty dollar is under threat. Trump has unleashed bedlam.