BBC spends £277m on redundancy payments in seven years
Staff received payouts as high as £949,000 for both compulsory and voluntary redundancies.New figures show that the BBC spent £276,833,465 in redundancy payments in the past seven years. A Freedom of...
View ArticleMeyer: Hacking not relevant to debate over future of PCC
Self-regulation should be strengthened, the former PCC chief claims. Former Press Complaints Commission chairman Sir Christopher Meyer has urged Lord Justice Leveson to strengthen rather than abolish...
View ArticleWhat the Frack?
Fracking up ground water. Political Scrapbook has posted the following video, showing the occasionally explosive effect of fracking on ground water. This is a key concern over allowing widespread...
View ArticleGoing cap in hand to the charities
How to change the tax relief cap to help charities and the government get value for money.The Chancellor’s budget decision to cap income tax relief has caused a hullabaloo. Wealthy donors and their...
View ArticleBurberry second half sales up 18 per cent
Shares in luxury retailer fell 5 per cent following smaller than expected sales jump.Burberry made an underlying revenue of £1.027 billion in the six months to 31 March; an 18 per cent increase on the...
View ArticleNearly 500 Dairy Crest jobs at risk
Site closures in Liverpool and Cambridgeshire threaten nearly 500 jobs at the milk supplier. The milk supplier Dairy Crest has announced plans to close production sites in Aintree and Fenstanton,...
View ArticleIndependent falls in line with 20p cover price hike
The move will make The Times the UK's cheapest broadsheet. The Independent is to raise its cover price by 20p to £1.20 – bringing it line with broadsheet competitors The Guardian and The Daily...
View ArticleSupporting business: let's follow northern Europe
The UK needs to raise its game.As the UK economic recovery continues to stutter, calls for a return to an active industrial policy to restore the competitiveness of British business grow louder. We are...
View ArticleWork experience works
New research by NIESR/DWP shows the positive effect of the government's work experience programme.The DWP has finished its examination of the work experience programme which caused so much trouble two...
View ArticleBanish the truffle oil!
Luxury cinema is an insult to film, and our wallets - we should resist its pretentious temptationsUntil the advent of luxury cinemas, I never realised that the moviegoing experience could accommodate...
View ArticleA wry, sideways look at odd media-speak
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View ArticleMayday for the European left
Five elections in the first week of May will show whether the left can recover. The first week of May will see Europe's left contest no less than five telling elections. The deciding round of the...
View ArticleQ&A: Fracking
Green groups are outraged after the controversial method of extracting shale gas has been allowed continue in the UK. But what exactly is "fracking", and why is it so contentious?Q: What is "fracking"?...
View ArticleFracking: Just what are the risks?
Shale gas: mining the data.In the early 1990s the oil and gas industry in Texas started to produce gas by drilling into deeply-buried shale layers. They found that creating underground fractures in the...
View ArticleJulian Assange interviews Hezbollah leader
WikiLeaks editor launches new TV chat show. WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange's new chat show The World Tomorrow has made its debut on the Kremlin-funded TV channel Russia Today (an odd choice for a...
View ArticleOrange shortlist announced
Anne Enright and Cynthia Ozick both make the 2012 shortlist. This year both new and well-established authors are honored. Debut novelist Madeline Miller is shortlisted for The Song of Achilles, a...
View ArticleWhy is John Yates working for the brutal Bahraini regime?
The former Met commander is defending a blood-stained Middle East tyranny.Oh dear. What happened to John Yates? How did a suave, sophisticated, liberal British policeman, once tipped for the top job in...
View ArticleSimple taxes are progressive taxes
The TPA's Matthew Sinclair argues that it is lack of take-up that makes the tax system look biased against the richI’m glad Alex likes the graph we made yesterday. Hopefully it makes it a little easier...
View ArticleFrom Skintland to a United States of Britain
The hysterical debate around Scottish independence is harming independentsThe Economist this week caused a bit of a stooshie north of the border by wading into the murky waters of the independence...
View ArticleThere is hope in the wreckage of the local press
There will always be local news, except that it is a less attractive investment. Perhaps that’s best for everyone.The decline of the local press continues. Last Friday, my local paper, the Bristol...
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