“This is a green revolution in the making ... It is the most dramatic change in our energy policy since the advent of nuclear power". (...

H. Harman Minister for Administrative affairs London W1 20.10.2008 Dear Sir Alex Ferguson The new employment laws on entrenched discriminati...

"Part-time women receive 40% less pay than full-time men. Do you think that that's because they are 40% less intelligent, less comm...

The Government is always keen to talk about de-regulation and getting rid of red tape; I have always felt this to be an Orwellian statement ...

I wrote on Monday of the woes that currently betide HBOS. Now today Barclays' bank have decided to look to clever sovereign wealth fund...

News in today suggest rents on London office space will fall another 20% this year; worse news for owners (errm...usual suspects, banks, p...

We have written a few times on the credit crunch impact on the UK financial services industry. Nick wrote an excellent piece here on how sl...

Royal Mail and the government have been a little at odds over the future of the Post Office. As shutting local offices was revealed to be a ...

Or still tilting at windmills ? In today’s Grauniad the government is trailing the headlines of a new ‘renwables strategy document’...

You cannot hope to bribe or square Thank God ! the British villager But seeing what the man will suffer Unbribed, you can ignore the duffe...

The media reporting a big "Retail Shock" as sales rose 3.5% for May. Food sales rose 3.3% as people bought salads and stocked up f...

I read this story on Iain Dale's blog this morning and the original article in the Telegraph . The only conclusion I can reach is that ...

The BBC’s Nick Robinson seems to have reverted to type of late, neutrality cast to the winds, parroting regime-speak. Here’s his homily to ...

It has been a while since we last looked at this and it is about time there was a better set of links to the best business blogs in the UK (...

Blogging for a year now and I’ve been tagged, by Tom P over at Labour and Capital (he’s, err, Labour - I think). Which three bloggers do I...

Politics has taken over the news agenda this week - even the fuel crisis is seen through a political lens. And yet the economic news is noth...

Tutored no doubt by Sarkozy and his EDF-serving brother , McBrown is going down the French route on nuclear facilities: bribe local communi...

What a day for the Irish, saving Europe from the undemocratic forces of the Eurocrats. Perhaps we can hope that the anti-democrats will be s...

Mr Brown thought long and hard and decided to use a number without any bad connotations. 1 .. One career in the balance 2 .. Two pence fuel ...

Sergeant O'Connor winning the Victoria Cross at the Alma - leading the charge with the Queen's Colour There comes a moment in ...