Afren has had to suspend its CEO on account of 'unauthroised payments' - this is taking bribes to us more ordinary folk. Afren Plc...

Fracking has the hallmarks of an issue best left until after the election, like Blair studiously did with Nuclear before 2005.  Swampy doesn...

No, not William Hague, off to be as near as he can to Angelina Jolie, but the International Court of the Hague . Many moons ago Putin sei...

Phil Clarke was an excellent CEO, continuing on from yesterday's theme which gerenated a lot of interest here is why: - Clarke did n...

Enough of the international scene: back to business.  The Tesco crisis seems to have come to a head - well, the head has been chopped off,...

OK folks, it's hot enough for the Silly Season to be declared open.  Jong-un the wrong 'un has decided North Korea needs to get itse...

Catching up with the newspapers, one might be forgiven for thinking that Armageddon looms.  But then we turn to the market data for the trad...

" The dollar's 70-year dominance is coming to an end ", writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph .  " Within a decade, gre...

The United Kingdom's Task Force to recapture the Falkland Islands had set sail from the last reasonable hope of no conflict po...

It's another terrible story about MH17 being shot down. As with any story the complexity is huge, who fired? Why was the plane there in ...

To continue yesterday's theme, here is a view expressed of the Left in the Guardian of late . I can quite see from the links there tha...

(Apologies for the slight break in service, both Messr's Drew and Cityunslicker have been travelling a lot over the last week...normal ...

Well, I kept the essential  post I've had for 4 years. "Junior minister for constant viewing water and solvent or oil based ...

What business lessons have we learned from the World Cup? Extract from Bill Quango's soon to be released cash-in business management ...

David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Inverness.  Scotland votes on independence in September 2014, and the panel features camp...

There is a strong possibility the £12 billion 'smart meters' programme will be right up there with NHS software projects and the CSA...

What is one supposed to do now... 1. Germany. I like Germany - nice food,  nice people, nice country quite sensible on things not relate...

Just spent a few days in Germany on energy business, and there is a new piece of economic madness to report.  This time, it's at the ind...

Continuing our whimsical themes from last week, today we are going to look at France why such an economic basket case is threatening to re...

In the comments there was some suggestion that pre and post WW2 the UK and France considered joining together. Well, there were proposal...