19 October 2017 Diary of a Corbynista To the Conference and Beyond by Don Urquhart 26 September Theresa May desperately needs something before next week’s Tory Party conference. This week she is meeting Donald Tusk, the European Council President. If it looks as if she has achieved a breakthrough she can then proclaim herself a… Continue reading Issue 125:2017 10 19:Diary of a Corbynista (Don Urquhart)
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Issue 100:2017 04 13:Week in Brief Financial
13 April 2017 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY TRY AGAIN: The troubles of leading house builder Bovis may be coming to an end with the help of fellow residential builder Galliford Try – but not quite in the way that Bovis had in mind. Bovis found both house sales and its share price in a… Continue reading Issue 100:2017 04 13:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief financial
17 November 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY THERE IS A TIDE …: In an island such as Britain, surrounded by a restless sea, the urge to harness that power to create energy has long captivated entrepreneurs and inventors. The obvious place to begin is with tidal barrages, and a number have been… Continue reading Issue 80: 2016 11 17: Week in Brief financial
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Shop Your Neighbour (Frank O’Nomics)
11 August 2016 Shop Your Neighbour New rules for financial whistleblowers may lead the way for others. by Frank O’Nomics The financial services industry may finally be about to do something for the greater good. At the start of next month, new legislation on whistleblowing will be brought in for financial firms and, if successful,… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Shop Your Neighbour (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial
28 January 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ROOMS TO RENT: 50 CENTS: Not if the Chancellor has anything to do with it. The Treasury produced squeals of pain and anger when it changed the tax regime on mortgages taken by private landlords to acquire buy-to-let property, limiting landlords on how much loan… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Bonkers Bankers
26 November 2015 Bonkers Bankers by M J Horast If bankers were a racial minority, a religious grouping or of unusual sexual determination, the Chartered Banker Institute (bankers, not understanding the proper use of the apostrophe, seem to have simply abandoned the expected ‘s) would be protesting in the strongest possible terms about the portrayal… Continue reading Issue 30: 2015 11 26: Bonkers Bankers
Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
3 September 2015 Week in Brief :BUSINESS AND THE CITY PESTS: One of British commerce’s less known success stories is Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 250 company which specialises in office services of all types – from paper towel supply to rat catching to full facilities management. It had a long record, over 25 years,… Continue reading Issue 18:2015 09 03:BUSINESS AND THE CITY
