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Good day to bury bad news on spin

27.10.09
Whitehall's spin doctors are crafty. Last Thursday, while the row was raging about British National Party leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time and the Royal Mail strike was causing chaos, the Government slipped out the news that — after 10 months of discussion — it was refusing to back a compulsory register of lobbyists ... more

Unions are livid at Tory pay freeze

08.10.09
Union leaders are furious about Tory plans to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers to help cut the UK’s Everest-style debt mountain ... more

Is the price right to sign up with E.On?

05.10.09
“There is not a clear message regarding future wholesale costs movements that can be communicated to customers” E.On’s Paul Golby obliquely commented recently, on the chances of a cut in retail prices for Britain’s households...... more

Dave disappoints at Blenheim Palace

21.09.09
Some of the biggest names in corporate life were at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on Friday night for the closing black-tie banquet at the annual Oxford Analytica conference, a big pow-wow on global politics and business... more

Dollar’s fall fails to dent Pearson prospects

27.07.09
Pearson, the Financial Times, Penguin and educational publisher, has got off to roaring start to 2009 ... more

Radical way to end sham of the AGMs

24.07.09
The report by Sir David Walker in which he put forward a range of ideas to improve the governance of banks and the involvement of shareholders has had one unforeseen effect ... more

From Soho House to City, there is no excuse to use illegal software

22.06.09
Soho House prides itself on being a favourite of the media set, popular with everyone from chief executives to editors, TV producers to public relations bosses... more

Movie-maker has a GM revival script

03.06.09
Not many Americans loudly said they were “filled with joy” over General Motors being on its deathbed, with the tens of thousands of job losses that has wrought, but then Michael Moore is not most Americans...... more

Who was best at seeing the worst?

30.04.09
The race to claim intellectual pre-emption of the credit crunch reached the final furlong this week.... more

Lift £3,000 cap on fees or we'll lose our elite status say universities

29.04.09
Britain's leading universities warned they are in danger of losing their elite status because student fees fail to cover the costs of tuition... more

‘We’ve never seen public finances get so bad in such a short time’

29.04.09
Interview: Robert Chote’s think-tank pulled no punches with its cool-headed Budget analysis. No wonder the City rates him – and Gordon Brown is wary... more

BHP Billiton 'has a new £18bn bid target in sights'

27.03.09
Having failed last year to buy rival mining giant Rio Tinto, it now looks as if BHP Billiton is lining up another major acquisition.... more

Even top dogs at FT feel chill of the media downturn

14.01.09
Media analysis: Soon after the Financial Times raised its weekday cover price in November — making it by far the most expensive daily newspaper in Britain – a reader wrote to the editor...... more

Even top dogs at FT feel chill of the media downturn

14.01.09
Soon after the Financial Times raised its weekday cover price in November — making it by far the most expensive daily newspaper in Britain – a reader wrote to the editor: “Sir, It’s nice to see journalists leading by example – encouraging us to spend our way out of recession by increasing the FT cover price to £1.80.”... more

Lloyds-HBOS merger faces pension hurdle

30.12.08
Banking: The Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger, due to be formally approved in two weeks, faces a fresh legal challenge from the trustees of the HBOS pension fund... more

Club that aims to give Eton’s boys an edge

04.12.08
Forget the Bullingdon Club. Forget too, these troubled times. Eton College has started its own club for those keen to get on, credit crunch or not: The Stockbroking Society... more

Decade of boom in jobs is fuelled by the public sector

24.11.08
A boom in public-sector jobs has propped up employment levels under Labour, according to research... more

Forget boozy Fleet St image - newspapers turned lean long ago

19.11.08
Media analysis: Journalists on national newspapers have become so used to job cuts that it has blinded them to reality... more

Doubts grow over NHS electronic records project

28.10.08
Labour's £12billion plan for electronic NHS records for patients has run into serious trouble, it was reported... more

How to turn crisis into disaster

10.10.08
There have been more letters in the Financial Times from hedge-fund managers in the three weeks since the ban on short-selling than in the past five years. ... more

WSJ’s worthy reporting of financial meltdown lacks punch or panache

08.10.08
There is, in case you haven’t noticed it, a global financial crisis going on. So you might expect the largest-selling business newspaper in the Western world, the Wall Street Journal, to be reflecting that sorry state of affairs... more

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08.10.08
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City bonuses to shrink by half

26.09.08
Top City bankers were nervously comparing notes amid fears that year-end bonuses are set to shrink by at least half... more

Yes, home delivery can boost sales - but at a price

23.07.08
Are the days of newsagents delivering the paper to your door numbered?... more

Focusing on global influentials puts FT in pink again

05.03.08
Some three years ago, the Financial Times seemed destined for the scrap heap - but not anymore... more

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