Kodak to offload personalised and document-imaging businesses
The sale will help the photographic company emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy during 2013.The bankrupt Eastman Kodak Company has announced that it will sell off its personalised imaging and...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. We're rewriting the nation's future. Here's how it looks... (The Independent) Big projects, stamped with a Union Jack, were ecstatically...
View ArticleAer Lingus rejects Ryanair’s purchase offer
The Irish airline claims that accepting Ryanair's takeover offer would "undervalue" the company.The board of Aer Lingus Group has urged shareholders to reject Ryanair's acquisition offer to take...
View ArticleThe Sun: "There is a clear public interest in publishing the Harry pictures"
Quote of the day.In the end, the Sun was the first to blink and publish the naked Prince Harry photos in all their glorious detail. Their justification? "There is a clear public interest in publishing...
View ArticleBerendsen’s half-yearly profit surges
The board expects first-half trading trends to continue for the balance of 2012.The British textile maintenance company Berendsen has reported a profit of £29.1m for the first six months ended 30 June...
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Chart of the day: Disparities in earned income
As David Blanchflower wrote in this week's economics column: The gap between mean and median self-employed earnings is greater than for employees, because their mean is pulled up by small numbers of...
View ArticleQ2 GDP revised up by 0.2 per cent
The second estimate for GDP in the second quarter of 2012 has been revised upwards, from a contraction of 0.7 per cent to a contraction of "just" 0.5 per cent. The revision changes little in the grand...
View ArticleCan men be feminists?
Men have to be part of feminism, but that doesn't mean they have to run the show.A couple of days ago on Twitter, the hashtag "MenAgainstRape" started to trend. Some people found this a positive and...
View ArticleWhy we need more energy storage to balance generation with efficiency
It’s indicative that the UK Energy Bill mentions the word ‘efficiency’ just six times, compared to ‘nuclear’ and ‘renewables’ which are mentioned hundreds of times each. The long awaited Bill shows...
View ArticleOn "The Queer Art of Failure"
Non-conformist queer perspectives offer radical alternatives to notions of "success".Every year – at least until this year – the discourse around GCSE results has been the same. Are they too easy? Are...
View ArticleCan the country be any more unified against George Osborne that it already is?
Only 16 per cent of the country approve of the chancellor. Polls don't get much more unified than that.Earlier this week, an ITV News/ComRes poll revealed that voter trust in George Osborne has hit a...
View ArticleIn the Critics this week
Žižek on Batman, Leo Robson on McEwan and Tracey Thorn on the novels of Elizabeth Taylor.Revolt, violence and class struggle are the themes jostling to the fore of this week’s Critics pages, most...
View ArticleInspiration in schools beyond the Great Grade Grab
A teacher outlines the practical difficulties of improving sport in schools.As the euphoria of London 2012 dissipates, the country's focus has shifted to legacy and to the furtherance of that...
View ArticleFriday Arts Diary
Our cultural picks for the week ahead.Talks Secret Location near London - Lost At Sea, 29-30 August The Lost Lectures' mission statement is to take talks out of institutions and into inspiring new...
View ArticleWho is left defending George Osborne?
The economists have deserted him, and business leaders are nowhere to be heard.So far, we have heard from 13 of the 20 economists who signed the now-infamous letter to George Osborne in the Sunday...
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Amazon maps US election by book
And the Republicans win. Amazon have taken a rather novel (hur hur) approach to mapping US politics. They took their 250 top selling books and divided them into a red/blue (Republican/Democrat)...
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Where did all the productivity go?
The ONS examines how employment is rising, even while GDP falls.Joe Grice, chief economist of the ONS, released a report today that addresses the recent GDP-employment paradox. As seen last week,...
View ArticlePCC receives over 150 complaints over The Sun's publication of Prince Harry...
Paper says publishing the photos of the prince naked in a Las Vegas hotel room was in the public interest.Almost two-thirds of Britons believe The Sun was wrong to publish naked pictures of Prince...
View ArticleBill Koch's Wild West village tells us all we need to know about taxing the rich
It's a simple question: would you prefer lasers or a Wild West gated community?The Denver Post brings us the news that Bill Koch – one of the Koch brothers, the right-wing billionaires who are trying...
View ArticlePolice plan to arrest Assange caught on camera
The Metropolitan Police's plan to arrest Julian Assange has apparently been caught on camera by a photographer. Lewis Whyld, a press association photographer, has tweeted two pictures of the document,...
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