Ignorant sodding stupidity
A new study suggests that in the past too many well off businessmen and business women have been given honours ranging from MBEs to knighthoods despite little evidence that they have put anything back...
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New data has revealed that 11.3pc of the UK\’s retail space is now standing empty. In entirely unconnected news internet sales are now some 12% of all retail spending.
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Let the drilling companies try extracting shale gas. If they fail, that’s their look-out. If they succeed, we will all benefit, because the price of energy will come down. In America they have driven...
View ArticleFailing to contribute to the Exchequer
I do wish that people would get this right: The Chancellor\’s family-owned interior design business, Osborne & Little, failed to contribute to the Exchequer last year as it recorded its fourth...
View ArticleIn which we consider Chuka Umunna
Music and film suppliers, who want to see HMV survive as internet retailers erode their margins, have been crucial to keeping HMV afloat. Mmm, yes, I can understand that. Old way of doing business...
View ArticleI can solve the Dreamliner problem. Stop using Apple\’s battery supplier
There was a fresh crisis yesterday, after All Nippon Airways (ANA) joined its fellow Japanese airline Japan Airline in grounding its fleet of Dreamliners so it could carry out safety checks. It was a...
View ArticleSomwhat incoherent analysis here
Let me highlight some of the features unique to the Mittelstand model that I believe everyone should learn from – and imitate if they can. OK. Taking on debt is treated with suspicion. What?...
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Contract killings and abductions are not uncommon in Russia\’s business world, Fancy that!
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One in five young people will need to become an engineer if the UK has any chance of addressing severe skills shortages and rebalancing the economy towards advanced manufacturing, new research has...
View ArticleWhy you would build Bentleys in Bratislava
If production is moved to Bratislava, the new Bentley 4X4 will be built alongside other cars belonging to the Volkswagen Group such as the Porsche Cayenne, Audi Q7 and Volkswagen Touareg. Because...
View ArticleOn that British industrial decline
A little story about that decline in British industry. Sadly, no, not about shipbuilding, rather, about crane building. Some of the changes that happened from the 70s onwards were simply inevitable....
View ArticleCalling all Geeks. So, let\’s start a Kickstarter
Arguing, as you never should, from the specific to the general there\’s a product that I think the market needs. And I have a feeling that it wouldn\’t be all that hard to do: either that or it\’s...
View ArticleWe can explain this
They were the bread and butter cars of British family motoring during the 1970s and ‘80s and still remembered nostalgically by millions– yet today they are an endangered species. But a generation of...
View ArticleI do wish the Wowsers would at least try to understand capitalism
All that, and it cost $100 USD less, too, coming in at $399. It seemed like Sony could do no wrong. But for all this fanfare and literal standing ovation, there\’s a problem for Australian gamers. The...
View ArticleWell, yes, this is actually the point of it all
Britain\’s workers have suffered more financial pain since 2008 than in any five-year period of the modern age, according to research by a leading tax thinktank that shows employees have sacrificed pay...
View ArticleSainsbury\’s boss talks bollocks
The Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 will allow US states to force online retailers to collect a tax on the sale of online products or services. The Act is being introducing in an attempt to level the...
View ArticleA little suggestion for a business opportunity
A piece about how various singers and songwriters are getting screwed out of their royalties. Brice is not the only featured artist to have had such problems with Fragma. Kirsty Hawkshaw, former...
View ArticleNo George, sorry, you’re wrong here
Remember that referendum about whether we should create a single market with the United States? You know, the one that asked whether corporations should have the power to strike down our laws? No, I...
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London has been dubbed the world’s “talent capital”. The accolade has been awarded by business advisers Deloitte after a survey of 22 high-value sectors ranging from banking to telecoms and digital...
View ArticleWhat part of fixed price contract do you not understand?
Millions of households on fixed-price contracts to miss out on Government’s energy savings promise Consumer watchdogs demand answers as EDF Energy says it will not pass on the full £50-worth of savings...
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