The criticism levelled at Vince Cable over the botched Royal Mail flotation this week might have an unlikely consequence. No, it won’t claim the Business Secretary’s scalp because in a delicately balanced Coalition Cabinet, the Liberal Democrat is too big to fail.

Westminster Outlook The announcement by Chi Onwurah, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, that Labour would make it easier for social enterprises to win Government contracts will not worry big beasts of outsourcing like Serco and Babcock. Only a relatively small number of three-year contracts will be open exclusively to enterprises “in the pursuit of a public service mission”.

Westminster Outlook If the name Mark Carne sounded familiar a year ago, it was only because it was but a letter short of Mark Carney, the Government’s then newly appointed and anointed Governor of the Bank of England and saviour of the British economy.

Matt Gingell asks whether businesses can interfere with workplace romance

Outlook Burberry is another successful retailer, even if the shares have moved off the express train and on to a branch line.

Outlook Sainsbury’s shares are like those “buy one get one free” bargains supermarkets are so fond of when compared to the near 600p the Qataris came close(ish) to paying for the grocer in 2007.

Economic View: The central banks have printed shed-loads of money and it has to go somewhere

Burberry is another successful retailer, even if the shares have moved off the express train and onto a branch line.

Sainsbury’s shares are like those buy one get one free multi-buy bargains supermarkets are so fond of when compared to the near 600p the Qataris came close(ish) to paying for the grocer in 2007.

Midweek View

Outlook How appropriate that the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, appears before the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee to answer questions on foreign takeovers when there’s one in the offing.

Outlook There’s a trick that some defence lawyers like to use: however strong the evidence of the client’s guilt, deny, deny, deny. It doesn’t matter if the bad guy was caught on film with a gun in his hand and a bag labelled “swag” while demanding the teller fill it with cash. He didn’t do it. He didn’t. He didn’t do it!

Who is Help to Buy actually helping? You can add developers to the well-to-do families and London professionals that critics have identified as big beneficiaries of the taxpayer-underwritten mortgages accompanied by deposits of as little as 5 per cent of a home’s value.

Das Capital: Narendra Modi will find governing India is more difficult than winning power

Westminster Outlook Outsourcing is a dreadfully prosaic word for a process that is fundamentally realigning the balance between commerce and state.