The steel industry is dirty. It eats energy. It consumes the earth’s resources. And as yet we need it. The Chinese could, and are, swamping
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According to the FT the trading revenue of most investment banks collapsed in the first quarter of this year: As the FT notes: Trading revenues
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As the TUC’s Touchstone blog has reported: In 2014 the UK was home to 2,926 €-millionaire bankers, according to new report published by the European
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Guest post by Atul K. Shah The failure of the UK’s fifth largest bank, HBOS, led to over £52 billion of losses, and had a significant
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The Bank of England Financial Policy Committee said that leaving the EU was a financial risk yesterday. You would think that a statement of the
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The Times has reported: A multimillion-pound Revenue & Customs publicity campaign to stamp out tax evasion and avoidance used an advertising agency ultimately controlled in
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John Kay has an excellent column in the FT this morning. It is headed: Do not let petty lobbying laws starve the body politic The quality
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This, from Steve Pottinger, who is one of my favourite poets, is worth a few minutes of your time, in my opinion: But you’re welcome
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The Guardian reports this morning that: Britain’s manufacturers are struggling to recruit skilled workers and keep pace with global technology, according to an industry report that
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