Crass idiocy is still crass idiocy, ya kno?
For some time, it has been government policy to privilege the interests of private landlords over other homeowners. This process began in the mid-1990s when banks introduced buy-to-let mortgages, which...
View ArticleOn that Amazon union election thing
Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, chose to take on one of the biggest companies in the world and form a union. If they were successful, they would be the first in the company’s history. The...
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Facebook fired Zhang for poor performance in September 2020. On her final day, she published a 7,800-word farewell memo describing how she had “found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national...
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The Institute for Public Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank, has published a report saying that decarbonising steel could create many jobs, particularly in the north of England. As we know,...
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Google will tie senior executive bonuses to their efforts furthering its environmental and diversity goals from next year. It’s also one of the ways that companies become less rich over time. It’s not...
View ArticleThe joys of wedding season returning
Living, as we do, in the centre of where folks go for their hen and stag parties we tend to view the return of wedding season with a slightly jaundiced eye. Then again, given the lack of ability to...
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The former boss of the Post Office has quit the boards of two major retailers after her former employer was found culpable for one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice. Paula Vennells, who ran...
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It’s not the damn phone lines: Ministers have launched a £1bn auction for thousands of miles of phone lines running alongside Britain’s railways, in a move they hope will improve train services while...
View ArticleThe ignorance is painful
We know Amazon is killing the high street, so why do we keep clicking on ‘buy now’? Because we value the convenience more than we do the High Street. Sure, shopping in person involved a certain amount...
View ArticleSo Greensill had no effect on Carillion then
How Lex Greensill helped sow the seeds of Carillion crisis Supply chain finance scheme launched in 2012 helped failed contractor mask mounting debt Well, gosh, how did that work then? Carillion never...
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The UK’s anti-corruption agency said it suspected fraud, fraudulent trading and money laundering related to the financing of Gupta Family Group Alliance (GFG), the loose grouping of steel and metals...
View ArticleDear Lord Above, the man’s a Geek
Mr. Gates was known for making clumsy approaches to women in and out of the office. Extremely clever, most ambitious and all that but still a Geek. Are these people not familiar with human beings? Some...
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I once intimated…..
….that a certain stock market little darlin’ of a company was touting its recycling technology a little too much and not paying enough attention to the problems of collecting what was to be recycled....
View ArticleWell, yes, but…..
The Wellcome Trust had the highest paid employee, with chief investment officer Nick Moakes taking home £4.64million including salary and bonuses last year – a £1.3million rise on the year before. The...
View ArticleWell, no, not really you know
Hundreds of passengers have been stranded after a regional airline closed down. Stobart Air, based in Dublin, has ceased all operations from today and is appointing a liquidator. The airline provided a...
View ArticleJust a small thought
GB News has been struck by an advertising boycott from some of the world’s biggest brands after the right-leaning news service was targeted by political activists. Kopparberg, the Swedish cider maker,...
View ArticleNot really love, no
Capitalism is reshaping the property market, locking younger generations out of buying somewhere to live and expecting us to be happy about it Anticapitalism in the form of excessive planning is making...
View ArticleGovernment silliness
Small businesses will be exempt from a ban on junk food advertising under plans to be revealed by ministers on Thursday. OK. The whole idea is insane anyway but. However, they said that the online...
View ArticleSirsly? Tax on perks?
The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been charged in a tax-related investigation, marking the first criminal charges against the former president’s company...
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Greensill Capital’s insurers claim they were misled by the finance group Whodathunkit, eh?
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