Guardian readers on TTIP
Phillip Inman reports that MPs have “won” access to TTIP documents, but can only view and not record them (MPs to see TTIP papers under strict rules, 19 February). What can the justification for this...
View ArticleThis business stuff is hard, isn’t it?
While Cherie Blair’s legal business, advising among others the despotic governments of Kazakhstan and the Maldives, has thrived, her health company took an irretrievable turn for the worst. Last June,...
View ArticleUnionisation, that’s what did for Gawker, unionisation
An Oxford education, elite media lawyers and the constitutional shield for freedom of the press was not enough to protect Gawker publisher Nick Denton – and the view of press rights in America – from...
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Gawker Media itself was hit with a $15m judgment, while its owner, Nick Denton, was personally ordered to pay $10m in damages. Gawker (whatever the holding company is called) will have insurance...
View ArticleIf I could ask a very politically incorrect question?
There’s a central dictum in engineering, in medicine, in life, at which Theranos, the controversial blood test company, has constantly failed. “In God we trust,” the mid-century statistician William...
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Although the importance of the steel industry to the UK economy has declined, it possesses attributes that are critical to the economy’s success. The industry produces a trade surplus, its...
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Nearly one in seven (14%) of HR staff say they have felt physically threatened at work highlighting growing concerns about the impact of stress on disputes in the workplace, new research from MetLife...
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Yours for $1: 58,429 deadweight tonne bulk carrier, one previous owner Goldenport delists from LSE and agrees to fleet sell-off as it faces debts of over £100m, underlining severe headwinds faced by...
View ArticleStunning revelation from the NYT
In an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat Companies are becoming adept at identifying wealthy customers and marketing to them, creating a money-based caste system. Incredible isn’t it?...
View ArticleErr, yes Mr. Terry
“I don’t like the Aim market though I’ll be quite honest about that,” he added. “I think it’s full of shorters and not a very well regulated market.” Watchstone declined to comment. Not very well...
View ArticleMaybe this wasn’t meant to work out all that well….
BHS was on the verge of collapse on Sunday night after eleventh-hour rescue talks failed, threatening 11,000 high street jobs. The department store’s owner, Retail Acquisitions, a consortium led by...
View ArticleIs this a problem with a solution?
Some 11,000 direct employees’ jobs are at risk if no buyer is found, along with at least twice that number in the supply chain. Tata has said that the 133,000-member pension fund attached to its UK...
View ArticleNice try matey, nice try
Dominic Chappell, the owner of BHS, moved £1.5m from the retailer into an obscure corporate vehicle last week as its financial problems worsened. BHS sources said Chappell transferred the funds to an...
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Dominic Chappell, the former owner of BHS, has launched a blistering attack on the retailer’s chief executive, accusing Darren Topp of “haemorrhaging” money from the company. Mr Chappell, who called Mr...
View ArticleYes, I suppose so
The former racing driver, who has been banished by administrators from BHS’s head office, has said he has backing from US and Canadian investors to buy back the retailer and has blamed its demise on...
View ArticleYes but, but
Dominic Chappell, whose consortium owned BHS before it collapsed last month, was forced out of a previous business venture after taking around €400,000 (£315,000) from the company for his personal use....
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V.C.s have spent years dismissing speculation about a private-equity bubble as merely an expression, by know-nothing spectators, of resentment and alarmism; media onlookers, they argue, should talk...
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An academy chain set up by the schools minister Lord Nash is allowing his unqualified and unpaid daughter to teach history and help draw up a new curriculum, prompting concerns from parents and a...
View ArticleErr, no, really, just no
Tesco Plc agreed to sell its majority stake in the Turkish Kipa chain, offloading the unprofitable unit at a huge discount to its market value. What someone will pay for something *is* its market...
View ArticleErr, Frank, which part of limited liability don’t you understand?
The chairman of a UK parliamentary committee probing the collapse of BHS has said it “would laugh” if Sir Philip Green were to offer less than £600m to settle the former retail chain’s pension debts....
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