Harriet Harman wins an ovation for her famous Janet Street-Porter impression. She beats Hazel Blears' " chipmunk " hands down...

Read this link here first . It is even at a skim a very good report by PWC on the manufacturing sector in the UK over the last 30 years. It ...

A bank holiday word game. Some definitions to tax you. Or more accurately to further tax you. Mandacious - To build bridges with thorns Coo...

Quelque-chose pour le weekend : find the following words in this NewLabour grid ! Integrity Growth Moral compass Prudence Courage Golden...

Iain Dale thinks that Mandelson has run out of optimism. Well, it would be hard to blame him. If you are the Speer in the final days of the...

Really, the way out of the Chrysler fiasco in the US has come to this . First Daimler walked away when they realised that Chrysler makes no ...

The outworkings of the US banking stress tests are nigh, and they don't sound like good news at all. Another huge round of recapitalis...

Really, a few people get the usual dose of flu and it comes to this ? The WHO have form for calling for the end of the world; kind of helps ...

It is quite something when the Prime Minister of the 6th largest economy in the world can be humiliated in front of the world's press ...

Not content with saddling the British Economy with an total lemon of a budget, the best brains in the Labour Government are determined to go...

JJB has secured a company voluntary agreement (CVA) with its landlords. The 11th hour deal effectively removes JJB from the top of our list...

See this post from last week. I havebeen a bit slow to update as I have been travelling since Thursday afternoon (when I closed all my posi...

This week's statement on the future permitting of coal-fired power-plants is good, worldly-wise strategy: the type we appprove of hereab...

Daily Mail "The publication of MP's expenses is causing some embarrassment. Whilst MP's may claim that all of these expenses ar...

It can be difficult to understand some of the technical terms in yesterday's historic budget. Here is a quick glossary for those unfamil...

"Hard to find a single economist who believes that the economy would grow by 1.25% in 2010, let alone grow by 3%-plus for the three yea...

I overheard Gordon telling the Army Chief of Staff he wanted attacks on the Taliban. I butted in and suggested 45p in the pound. When I was ...

There are many, many reasons to be disappointed with the current Government. That they manage to cram all of them into a single budget is ph...

Well CityUnslicker's really. (Bill Quango is at home claiming the last of his expenses after yesterday's shock annoucnemnt) - End pu...

Marks and Spendless a post from back in January about the merits of high vs low end retailers, predicted a further collapse in higher end r...