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Boots’ VAT “ready reckoner”

by Steve Baker 5 December 2008 in Politics, Business Comments are Disabled

How much longer can New Labour get away with this nonsense?

Work more, earn more — invest-in-france.org

by Steve Baker 5 December 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Inspired by an advert in the Economist, I found this from invest-in-france.org: New French labour regulations have been brought in and provide incentives to work more and earn more. Companies can raise the number of hours worked by management staff or independent salaried employees from 218 days to 235 days […]

FT.com / World – No more red tape, pleads business

by Steve Baker 3 December 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

But it is not just business which is suffering from Government intervention: Gordon Brown on Tuesday set out a raft of measures designed to stop British society fracturing during the recession, ranging from curbs on immigration and a crackdown on benefit cheats to restrictions on betting and cheap alcohol, writes […]

FT.com / UK / Business – Mandelson to urge industrial policy

by Steve Baker 3 December 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

More echoes of a desire for central planning of the economy, whether or not it is implemented through ownership: Britain needs urgent reform to the government’s “insufficiently joined up” industrial policy to cope with the economic challenges after the recession, Lord Mandelson was due to warn in a speech on […]

Spending on high street plunges

by Steve Baker 3 December 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

The Guardian reports: The prospects of a bleak Christmas on the high street are rising sharply as a survey out today shows a big fall in consumer spending in spite of lower interest rates and petrol prices. Downing Street’s hopes for a consumer-led recovery fired by a cut in VAT […]

40,000 die every year after hospital blunders, MPs are told

by Steve Baker 2 December 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

From the Telegraph: Hospital blunders are involved in the deaths of up to 40,000 patients a year, MPs have been told. I wonder whether the professions will be allowed to take responsibility for improving this desperate state of affairs. read more | digg story

Sunday news roundup

by Steve Baker 26 October 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

A brief glance at the papers this morning confirms that there will be plenty to do to set things right in the next government, from the nature of government, through what it promises, to what it actually achieves. From the Guardian Ecotown plan falters in tough climate: Gordon Brown’s flagship plan to […]

Times – Treasury criticised over mortgage plans

by Steve Baker 13 October 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

The Treasury has been criticised for a proposal calling for HBOS, Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to resume lending to homeowners and small businesses “at 2007 levels”. Let’s hope this is a misrepresentation or an error. See also the CML: The CML doubts whether, in the current […]

Information anarchy at the MoD

by Steve Baker 10 October 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

The MoD loses a computer hard drive with the private details of 100,000 members of the Armed Forces and their families, plus 600,000 applicants and their referees. In four years, 658 laptops have been stolen and, since January, 26 memory sticks of classified data have been lost. read more | […]

The US Community Reinvestment Act

by Steve Baker 5 October 2008 in Politics Comments are Disabled

Further to the Spectator article previously reported, many people have picked up on the US Community Reinvestment Act: The CRA was passed by the 95th United States Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 as a result of national pressure for affordable housing. In Congressional debate […]