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Cameron calls Aidan Burley a twat
The Prime Minister's artful put-down of the troublesome Tory MP.Unsurprisingly, David Cameron was keen to condemn Conservative MP Aidan Burley's description of the Olympics ceremony as "leftie...
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The Olympics in pictures - the spectators
The best of the day's images, as chosen by the NS's photography editor.All photos from Getty Images. The Duke of Wellington's statue at Wellington Arch wears a new hat designed by Flora McKean....
View ArticleHow Apple almost ditched the iPhone
Apple designer Sir Jonathan Ive talks near-misses. According to Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice president of design, the iPhone was almost scrapped completely because of its touchscreen - now a...
View ArticleHard travellin' for Thomas Cook as it reports quarterly loss
The British travel group's chief executive, Harriet Green, pins the company's hopes on new technology.The Thomas Cook Group has reported a pre-tax loss of £96m for the second quarter ended 30 June...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. Aside from football, sport in Britain is still a game for the elite (Guardian) Britain alone expects privilege-perpetuating schools to...
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High-frequency trading gone wild
Another HFT does something unexpected.Another month, another high-frequency trading algorithm gone wild. Although investigations are still ongoing, what seems to have happened is an algorithm trading...
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BAE Systems half-yearly profit down
Sales fall 10 per cent compared to 2011.BAE Systems, Britain's largest defence contractor, has reported half-year profits of £482m, or 14.6p per diluted share. This compares to £484m for the same...
View ArticleAlan White's Olympics Diary: Beautiful Bradley, and the IOC's billion-pound...
Jacques Rogge's committee does nothing but look out for its own interests.I’m so sorry. I wanted to wax lyrical about the beauty of Bradley. Of course I did. But duty calls. So. On Tuesday, the women’s...
View ArticleOsborne should nationalise RBS, but he won't
Cabinet ministers are reportedly pushing for the full nationalisation of RBS.Back in the halcyon days of May 2010, George Osborne probably hoped to use the government's RBS shares as the basis for a...
View ArticleGilbey on Film: The Sight & Sound Poll
Modern cinema makes a paltry showing in the Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time.Picture the scene: the newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is gravely ill in bed at his crumbling...
View ArticleWill the ECB carry on bullying governments into doing what it wants?
The central bank sees the merit of the carrot and the stick. Democracy? Not so much.The European Central Bank announces its next monetary policy decision at 1:30pm today, and here's hoping it's a good...
View ArticleVideo: oh, so that's why men don't do the uneven bars
Ouch.Much has been made of the fact that this is the first Olympics in which every country sends both male and female competitors. And with the introduction of women's boxing, it is also the first...
View ArticleWould the Tories win with Boris as leader?
That is the question Tory MPs are asking this morning. One should always be wary of polls showing that a political party would perform better under an alternative leader. Voters have a habit of...
View ArticleThe perils of political door-knocking
Talk is cheap and plenty of us chat about politics a heck of a lot.We’re living in an age of renewed political activism. The Occupy movement and the various marches and strikes we’ve seen in the last...
View ArticleLIVEBLOG: Mitt Romney's horse, Rafalca, goes horse-dancing
How will Rafalca fare? And what does it mean for the Republican candidate's Presidential hopes? 12:06 alexhern: Hello everyone, thanks for joining today for the inaugural horse-dancing liveblog....
View ArticleSony's quarterly loss more than doubles
The Japanese tech giant lowers its full-year earnings forecast.The struggling tech giant Sony Corporation has posted a net loss of ¥10.59bn for the first quarter ended 30 June, compared to ¥4.41bn for...
View ArticleCeva Logistics' pre-tax loss doubles
A difficult quarter, despite revenue surges in freight management and contract logistics.The Dutch supply-chain company Ceva Logistics has reported a pre-tax loss of €73m for the second quarter ended...
View ArticleThe case for onshore wind
The Chancellor’s crusade against onshore wind, whatever the merits with his own backbenchers, is economically ill-judged.In a straight political fight between George Osborne and Ed Davey, few pundits...
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Chart of the day: No change from the Bank of England, Federal Reserve or...
A day of rest for the central banks, it seems. Yesterday, the Federal Open Market Committee decided offer no additional monetary easing. The Wall Street Journal, home of Jon Hilsenrath, who is often...
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