Aborad in the Caribbean this week, so little posting . of note in the business and political world here though is the story of sugar. You ...

Slicker will be out of office yet again. So much travelling recently makes blogging hard to sustain. This time I will try to blog from abroa...

by James Highham ... so my ten things I would never do are: 1. Audition for Big Brother 2. Drive a Ford 3. Holiday in a caravan 4. Visit Sco...

It takes a sane right winger to come up with sound ideas on the Environment. Anatole Kaletsky in the Times today ( here ). Whether or not th...

The siesmic wave that has emanted from Greg Clark (not Barker , yet another Greg who has sullied the Tories reputaiton of late) today has ...

Further to my post below, I thought it worth commenting on what I saw of politics in China, given this is an occasionally political blog. H...

On my recent trip tot China I was fortunate enough to meet with a number of Chinese companies and visit Beijing and Hong Kong. The pollutio...

Lots of excitment this week with a trip to Beijing and Hong Kong. No time for blogging unfortunately; but there are a couple of posts I am w...

I am off to China this week to try and repatriate some of our FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) to Blighty. No idea what I will find or if I w...

This about the cost of raising children was in The Times this week: The survey found Wales the cheapest place to raise a child, at £172,632...

Last month I posted on the nonsense of the Iraq war dead estimate as written in the Lancet. It was my most viewes post yet. Here is a link t...

Nick Griffin and his henchman have been found innocent of charges brought against them of inciting racial hatred. This followed an undercove...

Many bloggers have posted re the recent US mid-term elections. Rather than add to the melieu, I was lucky to find that Istanbultory , has wr...

The FSA have finally released their report into Private Equity buy-outs today. A good article on this is in today's Times ( here ). I bl...

Whilst baby slicker was playing with the remote on Sunday, he chanced upon the BBC Heaven & Earth show for a minute or so. The sole piec...

My very first job involved sharing an office with a Scotsman; and hilarious company he was too. Since then I have acquired one or two other ...

I have posted on both Dizzythinks and Ellee recently about the pernicious effect of lawyers. A few thoughts below on my increasing dismay ...

So much to write on the current loopiness of the environmental pronuoncements of all parties. However today Wat Tyler does a better job tha...

I blogged below about the Sir Hayden Philips review. I managed to free up some time today to attend his webchat in the hope of at least gett...

I have been sent the below today by Sir Philip Hayden: "This is your advance invitation to join me in an online question and answer hou...