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Royal Mail faces privatisation and jobs massacre

Addressing the Business Select Committee in the House of Commons, Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson said it was his hope that introducing a "strategic partner" from the private sector would bring "a gale-force fresh air, into the management ...

From RICHARD TYLER, UK Indymedia Newswire,  3 Feb 2009
Related Topics: House of Commons,  Peter Mandelson

Who will go out of business in 2008?

Things were pretty bad in 1992. Jimmy Nail’s 'Ain’t No Doubt’ had gone straight to the number one slot on Top of the Pops... and Britain entered its second year of recession, interest rates touched 10.5 per cent and some 62,767 companies went bust, an ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  16 Jun 2008

The dot.com start-ups which have gone the distance

How many dot.com era start-ups have made it to their 10th birthdays? Not many is the short answer. Two that spring to mind are Lastminute.com boys-toys site firebox.com, which marked its anniversary this week. It's a wonderful insight into how early ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008

Britain's victory in 48 hour week opt-out

The French and Spanish have lost. Britain has won. So declared (in not so many words) employment relations minister Pat McFadden, fresh back on English soil after a late night of negotiations on the working time and agency workers directive in ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Pat McFadden

'Pundit Watch' to track commentators' opinions

The media (and politicians and parking wardens) gets blamed for most things that go wrong with the world – the latest being falling household incomes and the economic slowdown. But now the media can fight back thanks to a young Scottish internet firm ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Alistair Darling

Is the Government’s obsession with China and India sensible?

Governments have always played a crucial role in opening doors overseas and attracting investment to Britain, but is this Government’s obsession with China and India sensible? China is not the place to secure short term financial success A report by ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  9 Jun 2008

Entrepreneurship is in rude health

Organised by the club’s current president Alasdair Bell, one of the founding members of BOSO.com (Buy or Sell Online) – an online student marketplace - the dinner brought together the sort of network of existing and potential entrepreneurs, venture ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Michael Smith,  Jamie Murray

A fitting farewell to Bill Gates

Bill Gates has set June 27 as his final day as part of the senior management team at Microsoft, the firm he co-founded 33 years ago. It leaves the 52 year old free to concentrate on his philantropy, although he says he will continue to work on ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  5 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Bill Gates,  Microsoft Corporation,  Steve Ballmer

Has Labour reached 'the end of an era'?

In all the noise over John Hutton's speech last week declaring that Labour has "reached the end of the era" when it comes to imposing "major new [employment] regulation", what seems to have been ignored is that such a pledge has been made before. Can ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  3 Jun 2008
Related Topics: John Hutton,  Alan Johnson

Devil is in detail for agency workers deal

"It's not a good solution. It's the least worst solution. But it will still inhibit the labour flexibility that gives Britain its competitive edge." So said the CBI's president Martin Broughton last night in London of the Government-brokered backroom ...

From RICHARD TYLER, The Telegraph,  21 May 2008

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