Full coverage: UK

Derek Quinlan, the Irish financier, has petitioned for bankruptcy in the UK. New filings reveal how much he owed and why he made the decision.

It was the UK and the Bank of England last week – and it could be the eurozone and the ECB in the firing line over the coming weeks. I’ll be keeping a closer eye on Italian bond spreads.

Of the two remaining Oxford-educated candidates for UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss is in the lead. Her reliance on the Conservative party’s hard right will mean a tough line on the Northern Ireland Protocol - though not out of conviction.

Rose Dugdale led an extraordinarily complex life which is captured in full by Sean O'Driscoll in his book. He talks to Dion Fanning about the good and the bad of the upper-class British woman turned IRA operative.

The UK is in a moment of reconfiguration as its economy begins to restructure around the reality of Brexit. Not the lies, but the reality of a diminishing economy which requires more forms and more detail of those who want to sell into it.

Dublin-born billionaire engineer David McMurtry is working with the next generation – including an Irishwoman – on the future of all these things. In exclusive interviews, he and the executives leading Renishaw's latest projects talk past, present and future.

Comments allegedly made this week by Boris Johnson were a callous dismissal of the lives lost to Covid-19, but other failings could bring down the UK's prime minister.

Corporate lenders and borrowers are used to British law and the closest alternative from next year will be Irish law. Deal or no deal, we already know some niche markets are ripe for this opportunity.

First, there was anecdotal evidence that the pandemic-induced acceleration of trends towards remote working and online retail would reshape the commercial property market. Now hard figures are emerging in a number of international locations.

Dublin-based Centric Health has sold one of its biggest divisions, bringing a new player into the Irish teleradiology services market.