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Barney Macintyre

Business News Editor

Barney Macintyre is the Business News Editor at The Observer and the author of the Boardroom Sensemaker newsletter. He previously covered business and environment for Tortoise.

Photo of Barney Macintyre

Barney Macintyre

Business News Editor

Barney Macintyre is the Business News Editor at The Observer and the author of the Boardroom Sensemaker newsletter. He previously covered business and environment for Tortoise.

  • Barney Macintyre
    Short-seller ‘validated’ by housing fraud inquiry

    The man who exposed the Home REIT scandal warns that investors in the listed property fund will lose in excess of £300m

    Sun, 18 Jan 2026

  • Barney Macintyre
    Ben & Jerry’s without Jerry

    Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of the iconic ice cream brand, resigned after he claimed the company had been “silenced” on issues like Gaza.   Host: Tomini Babs Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode Photography: Sophia Fenton Executive producer: Rebecca Moore

    9 min • S1, E1197

  • Barney Macintyre
    BP looks to new management to re-energise fortunes

    Now Venezuelan oil is on the table, the firm faces tough decisions before its new CEO arrives

    Sun, 11 Jan 2026

  • Barney Macintyre
    Copper boom powers talks on Glencore-Rio Tinto deal

    As the price of the metal soars, conditions look good for a mining tie-up. But will this ‘bigger is better’ strategy deliver value

    Sun, 11 Jan 2026

  • Barney Macintyre
    What will be AI’s black swan event?

    Market crisis follow predictable patterns, but there is more than one way to read the AI bubble

    Sat, 10 Jan 2026

  • Barney Macintyre
    Monzo succession saga casts a shadow over plans for IPO

    The digital bank faces a shareholder revolt to reinstate TS Anil as CEO, highlighting splits over the timing of any listing

    Sun, 21 Dec 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Nato allies’ €1bn fund for defence startups suffers early casualties

    The Nato Innovation Fund has lost four of its five founding partners, as well as its chair, in the past 18 months

    Sun, 14 Dec 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Uncertainty over budget produces an early hangover

    The public’s financial behaviour shifted in the uncertain run-up to 26 November – and economic growth has emerged as the injured party

    Sun, 14 Dec 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Competition challenges lie ahead for Mail’s Telegraph bid

    As RedBird Capital drops out, a new prospective buyer emerges

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    UK set to raise prices of drugs in US agreement

    Proposed medicine hikes are ‘necessary’, says science minister Patrick Vallance, to continue attracting investment in UK pharma

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Chancellor told to free unspent levy funds for apprenticeships

    With nearly a million unemployed young people, an unallocated £600m could pay for 40,000 construction apprenticeships

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Gilt yields rise as Reeves’s budget U-turn rattles markets

    The interest rate rise on 10-year gilts reflected market volatility as confidence in the chancellor faltered

    Sun, 16 Nov 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Telegraph deal saga drags into third year

    The rightwing news group is in open revolt against prospective owner RedBird as regulators prepare to examine the purchase

    Sun, 9 Nov 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Baillie Gifford faces £12m ‘cat bond’ payout after hurricane

    Fund manager is among investors expected to pay up to $150m in disaster relief funds to Jamaica

    Sun, 2 Nov 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    What could possibly burst Nvidia’s $5tn bubble?

    Now more valuable than the German economy, the chipmaker has invested in AI ventures with unclear returns

    Sat, 1 Nov 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Ozempic maker suffers ‘meltdown’ as board directors quit

    Boardroom drama has erupted at Novo Nordisk as its market value plunges and it faces stiff competition in the weight-loss injection sector

    Sun, 26 Oct 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    ChatGPT spend stalls as AI ‘bubble’ grows

    OpenAI’s flagging subscription rate is feeding worries that an AI bubble may soon burst

    Sun, 19 Oct 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    China’s grip on minerals threatens AI boom in US

    Country’s tightened chokehold on rare earths spurred a tariff backlash and could undermine supply chains

    Sun, 12 Oct 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Government to decide whether to progress sale of Telegraph

    RedBird Capital Partners submits formal request to progress £500m deal for newspaper

    Sun, 12 Oct 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    A sober end to BrewDog’s rewilding adventure

    After just five years, the troubled brewer has sold the Scottish estate at the centre of its carbon pledges

    Sun, 5 Oct 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Investors eye top private schools and SEN provision

    Despite the removal of a VAT exemption for private school fees in the UK, deal activity is increasing

    Sun, 5 Oct 2025

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