Last week’s Queen’s Speech was greeted with dismay by business and politicos alike, and today’s PMQs was the first chance for the Labour leader to put the boot in on the Government for its lack of a credible plan for economic growth. As the Government falls deeper into ‘omnishambles’, Labour is looking more and more united. [...]
The slow recovery in the UK service sector
This survey published today by the CBI could show the first signs of recovery in the beleaguered UK services sector. Although the statistics show that business volumes in the UK service sector continued to decline in the three months to the end of January, there are reasons to be positive. The overall decline was at a much [...]
Cairn Energy and shareholder power
On Monday, the Business Secretary Vince Cable announced plans to tackle excessive executive pay, including proposals to give shareholders more powers to hold companies to account. This has been met with widespread criticism from the business lobby, with many arguing that powers already exist under the Companies Act and that new legislation would make little [...]
Making better use of people’s time online
This is a must watch TED talk from Luis von Ahn – the man who invented CAPTCHAs. Although you may never have heard of a CAPTCHA, you’ve definitely used them. They are the annoying squiggly letters you have to fill in when signing up to a new service online (like creating a new social media [...]
2011: a good year for facial hair
As I am sure you are all aware, today the Beard Liberation Front (BLF) announced that the restaurant critic Jay Rayner has been named the winner of the Beard of the Year Award 2011. This is part of the BLF’s campaign to oppose “beardism” and the “irrational prejudice against the hirsute”, and got us thinking that 2011 [...]
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