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John Collingridge

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John Collingridge is the Guardian's head of business

March 2026

  • Global oil and gas prices have spiked as the conflict in the Middle East halts energy exports from the region. Nosheen Iqbal speaks to John Collingridge, the Guardian’s head of business.

    Could war in the Middle East trigger a global economic crisis?

    Video10:43
  • Brent oil price graph on a phone screen. Photograph: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

    Today in Focus
    Could the Iran war trigger a global economic crisis? – The Latest

    Podcast11:10

January 2026

  • Kremlin critic Bill Browder

    Impose sanctions on refineries that buy Russian crude oil to end war, says Bill Browder

  • Donald Trump gestures as he walks down a staircase towards a media throng

    ‘At the table or on the menu’: a turbulent Davos week with Trump’s circus in town

  • Donald Trump holds a signed founding charter at the ‘Board of Peace’ meeting at Davos.

    Business live
    Davos: Trump launches his ‘board of peace’ as Kushner presents Gaza ‘master plan’ – as it happened

  • Daily life in greenlandepaselect epa12666320 People walk along an icy street in Nuuk, Greenland, 20 January 2026 (issued 21 January 2026).  EPA/MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN  DENMARK OUT

    Business live
    Denmark welcomes Trump ruling out force to take Greenland, before ‘future deal’ framework announced – as it happened

  • Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss

  • Nervous rex: the Davos elite brace for Trump and his dinosaur diplomacy

September 2025

  • Varun Chandra (centre), Thames Water chair Sir Adrian Montague (left), and Thames Water CEO Cathryn Ross (right)

    Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviser

    Exclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation

July 2025

  • Thames Water worker.

    Thames Water spent £136m on securing emergency funding, leaked document suggests

    ‘Atypical expenditure’ document suggests utility’s costs over 12 months outstripped the £130m it paid in fines

June 2025

  • Thames Water contractors on a job in Uxbridge, London, in March 2025.

    Thames Water lenders demand government effectively block campaigners from legal action

  • A Thames Water van parked in London

    Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes

March 2025

  • Foamy water next to sewage apparatus, seen from above

    Thames Water begs to be spared fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away

    Exclusive: Managers and lenders racing to find a buyer want regulator to agree to leniency amounting to billions of pounds

February 2025

  • She sits on yellow sofa

    ‘We must avoid a chilling effect’: the CMA chief on the UK’s pro-growth shift

    Sarah Cardell says role of competition regulator remains the same but it must be wary of perceptions

January 2025

  • Donald Trump speaks at Davos

    ‘They need a reset’: gloom in Davos as Trump boom leaves Europe behind

    America First doctrine and threat of tariffs leave EU elite wondering how it can close economic gulf with US
  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves to soften non-dom tax changes to woo rich for growth push

    Tweak to finance bill is part of Labour push to show UK is attractive place to invest
    • Nato chief urges ‘step up’ in support for Ukraine

    • Keir Starmer urged to push for Ukraine to get $300bn of frozen Russian assets

    • Business live
      Davos day one: German chancellor Scholz says Putin must not win Ukraine war, as Greenpeace protesters disrupt WEF – as it happened

March 2024

  • Visitors stand at the Airbus pavilion at an exhibition in  Doha

    Europe is unprepared for risks from Russia and Trump, says Airbus boss

    Aerospace group chief executive urges UK and Europe to pool efforts and merge fighter jet programmes
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