Web Only: the best of the blogs
The five must-read blogs from today, including the curse of Clegg. 1. The tycoon tax proves the power of the Curse of Clegg The Deputy Prime Minister himself has a Reverse Midas Touch, says Paul...
View ArticleThe 10 fastest growing American industries
Hot sauce, solar panels and generic drugs are up, up, up!Following on from its report on the fastest dying industries in the US (which included DVD rental, appliance repair and newspaper publishing),...
View ArticleParodying Eva Perón
Copi and an Argentinian classic of queer theatre.Sixty years since her death, dramatisations of Evita’s life and early death abound. The most famous remains Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical;...
View ArticleQatada's deportation won't end Cameron's headache
The Lib Dems will frustrate Cameron's efforts to reform human rights law. It was with cheers that Conservative MPs greeted Theresa May's announcement that Abu Qatada has been arrested and will be...
View ArticleThe Swedish minister and the "racist cake"
Black face, genital mutilation: the grossest cake of all time?Is there any way it could possibly taste good? Is there any context in which the creation, and consumption, of this could be justifiable?...
View ArticlePMQs review: the Budget hands Miliband an easy win
Cameron is still unable to defend much of his Chancellor's Budget. The first PMQs since the Budget was, unsurprisingly, an easy win for Ed Miliband. David Cameron struggled to defend his decision to...
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Refresh yourself
Are Latin American beverage companies in tune with their consumers?Latin America’s huge potential in terms of consumption of food and beverages is well known, thanks to booming economies and a positive...
View ArticleDon’t get carried away with headline fall in unemployment
Subtantial progress may not come until 2013The drop in the latest unemployment figures is good news. It is the first time unemployment has fallen in ten months. But underneath the headline fall is bad...
View ArticleMervyn King is a tyrant, but who will succeed him at the Bank?
It’s time for a heavyweight.It’s never easy replacing a tyrant but there are huge benefits from doing so. The pain is usually worth it. A tyrant looks to his own advantage rather than that of his...
View ArticleCameron is a great head prefect but what does he believe in?
The PM has never really possessed his party’s soul. David Cameron’s government has been accused of many things in the past few weeks but lack of modernity isn’t one of them. Competence, coherence,...
View ArticleWhy Labour should not embrace free schools
Andrew Adonis is wrong to argue that free schools do not favour the better off.Andrew Adonis’s argument in the New Statesman last month that Labour should embrace free schools is selective, outdated...
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Innovation: facts and figures
How much is invested globally in clean energy technology?
View ArticleThe origin of "omnishambles"
Ed Miliband's The Thick Of It reference. Today's PMQs saw the first recorded use of "omnishambles" in the House of Commons as Ed Miliband noted that "even people within Downing Street" were referring...
View ArticlePartnering for a Bold Vision
HP's senior strategist discusses the possibility of an energy future made secure by seismic technology.HP and Shell have created a co-innovation program for seismic acquisition. The bold vision of the...
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Chart of the day: Unemployment falls
The headline unemployment rate has dropped for the first time in a year, potentially marking the start of a recovery. But while the big number is good news, there are scares contained deeper in the...
View ArticleNot there yet
Women in business still have to work harder than men for same recognition.With the Davies Report published last year, gender diversity has never had a higher profile. The weight of public opinion and...
View ArticleThe one number that explains the employment situation
5.6 people are chasing every one job. Without reducing this number, unemployment can never substantially fall.Perhaps the best single piece of news in the unemployment data isn't the reduction in the...
View ArticleWeb Only: the best of the blogs
The five must-read blogs from today, including the real meaning of the Ukip vote. 1. The UKIP vote isn't so much a eurosceptic vote as an anti-politics vote If Cameron wants to win back UKIP voters, he...
View ArticlePMQs sketch: Ghostly George and Mottled Dave
Did Cameron own up to the “omnishambles”? The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland brought his bottom to the House of Commons today and got it a good kicking....
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