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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
    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
    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
    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

  • Barney Macintyre
    Ten UK data centres could cancel EV emissions gain

    Research has underlined the lack of transparent and reliable figures for expected emissions driven by data centre growth

    Sat, 4 Oct 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Yes, today’s jobs market is tough for graduates – but AI is not to blame

    Figures show that while competition is tight, it’s the economy not tech that is the cause

    Sun, 28 Sept 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Beauty Tech listing is a rare ray of light in IPO window

    Proposed LSE float for £320m could lead other companies to follow suit, easing London slowdown

    Sun, 28 Sept 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Trump’s ‘golden visa’ order sends UK firms scrambling for top tech talent

    With US skilled worker visas set to increase to $100,000, Britain can do more to lure elite employees across the pond

    Wed, 24 Sept 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Billions for UK data centres pose challenge for power grid

    Warning of vast demands on water and energy if AI infrastructure expands in UK with new projects

    Sat, 20 Sept 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Big pharma’s cash pull-out lands blow to UK economy

    Merck’s decision to scrap a £1bn investment follows the health secretary’s refusal to negotiate UK drug prices

    Mon, 15 Sept 2025

  • Barney Macintyre
    Eli Lilly joins big pharma fallout over drug prices

    Select committee calls emergency meeting as CEOs ‘livid with the UK’ after talks with government crash over NHS rebates

    Sun, 14 Sept 2025

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