Within a few months of taking over as chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in March 2000, Fred Goodwin adopted ...

Make It Happen, an eye-catching curtain-raiser to the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival theatre programme, is the latest ...

Sandy Grierson excels as the banker who led RBS to ruin and a hammy Brian Cox is Adam Smith in premiere at Edinburgh International Festival ...

Make It Happen brings Brian Cox to the Edinburgh International Festival as the ghost of Adam Smith.

Make It Happen is a portrait of a bullying control freak, Fred Goodwin, who turned RBS into the largest bank in the world ...

You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city ...

Now James Graham has looked more closely into financial hubris and collapse. Make It Happen charts the rise and fall – in ...

Disgraced banker Fred Goodwin is raking in nearly £600,000 every year in pension payments as taxpayers foot the bill for the massive £10billion loss on the bank.

Martin portrays Goodwin as obsessive, instilling fear in his underlings while fixating on details such as the colour of the bank’s executive cars – they had to be RBS blue.

- Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy, by Iain Martin, was published by Simon & Schuster on Sept. 12.