Nonstarters: app-happy gardeners
Worst kickstarter video of the week.A broad school of thought on Kickstarter, and in the business world at large, holds that the key to making a runaway fortune is to turn everything, everywhere, into...
View ArticleFive things you didn't know about Saad Hariri
Profile: Syria’s richest foe.A bomb blast in central Beirut and the assassination of Wissam al-Hassan have stirred things up in Lebanon. Countrywide anti government protests, next year’s forthcoming...
View ArticleRomney and Obama: what their choice of words reveal
Debates favour style over substance.Last night was the last Presidential debate, which showed a win for Obama – but these debates are much more style over substance. Here's a quick analysis of some of...
View ArticleBAE shareholders call on chairman to resign
Dick Olver feels the pinch from botched BAE-EADS merger. A group of BAE shareholders has called for the resignation of chairman Dick Olver and senior independent director Sir Peter Mason, after a...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. Yulia Tymoshenko is Europe's Aung San Suu Kyi (Guardian) Ukraine's still-Stalinist judiciary was used to destroy the former prime...
View Article“At this stage, it is difficult to know whether some of the recent more...
Business quote of the day.“At this stage, it is difficult to know whether some of the recent more positive signs will persist” Bank of England governor Mervyn King sounded a note of caution in his...
View ArticleHow will Cameron solve his prisoners' votes headache?
Ministers deny that they are planning to introduce votes for prisoners. But they still need to respond to the European court's ruling. David Cameron once memorably declared that the thought of giving...
View ArticleFive questions answered on Facebook's third quarter losses
Company reports $59 million loss.The internet's biggest social networking site is still in the red, even after third quarter profit rises. We answer five questions on Facebook's third quarter figures....
View ArticleTen reasons why police commissioner elections leave us cold
The elections offer little more than an expensive way of leaving us all more disillusioned.Duggan. Tomlinson. Hillsborough. Leveson. Police charged with upholding the law have repeatedly broken it. Few...
View ArticleJustice for Mark Duggan demands that we change the law on intercept evidence
Our absurd laws mean there may never be a public inquest into Duggan's death at the hands of the police. On 4 August 2011, Mark Duggan was killed by police in Tottenham. Two days later, a peaceful...
View ArticleThe real meaning of the "47 per cent"
Why we shouldn't forget Romney's comment.We have seen the last presidential debate for 2012 and while the second debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama may have already receded, as will...
View ArticleCountries closing the gender gap: heroes and villains
Take a look at this heat map.Good news for the adverseley-gendered, for the gender gap is closing (slowly). In a report on economic equality from the World Economic Forum Iceland tops the charts for a...
View ArticlePMQs review: Miliband's most confident performance yet
The Labour leader is finally starting to sound like a prime minister-in-waiting.Rarely has Ed Miliband appeared as commanding as he did at today's PMQs. A telling moment came when, as David Cameron...
View ArticleWhy Clegg should kill the Communications Data Bill
No one gives the Lib Dems credit when they merely win concessions. No one loves the Communications Data Bill currently making its way through parliament. Legislating to increase the state’s power of...
View ArticleDismal figures stoke fears of further eurozone downturn
Slumping private sector output, rising debt, and general malaise foreshadow further decline. A fresh batch of eurozone data has reinforced fears that the economic downturn may be intensifying rather...
View ArticleMiliband is sneaking up on power without a plan for government
If the Labour leader forms a government without permission to inflict pain or make enemies, he will quickly find Britain ungovernable.If there is such a thing as a good booing, Ed Miliband got one at...
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Here’s why unemployment has fallen and why it will rise again soon
The month-by-month figures show that the labour market is weaker than commonly thought. One of the biggest puzzles economists are dealing with in relation to the Great Recession is why it is that the...
View ArticlePMQs sketch: crimson Cameron takes a bashing
The PM turned into a shouty version of the BBC’s George Entwistle as he tried and failed to cope with Miliband's onslaught. When the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland accused the...
View ArticleWill the referendum come too soon for Salmond, the SNP Pretender?
Salmond and his party have two years to gain an extra 20 points’ worth of support.Room number two of Perth’s Salutation Hotel is where Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, stayed one...
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