‘In Business’ Archives
For “war-cabinet” read “My team isn’t good enough”
UK Conservative leader David Cameron has a problem. If he really believes that he is going to lead the country later this year (though the polls are pointing towards a hung-parliament), then his team is simply not strong enough. True, he's got former chancellor Ken Clarke -- good old Ken -- but, aside from that, he has no-one with economic clout [...]
The Mac at 25
Today the Apple Macintosh is 25 years old — quite something for the only _other_ personal computer to survive in the face of the IBM PC/ MS DOS / Windows onslaught, that saw off the Sinclair computers, the Amiga, the Atari, the Amstrad, the Sharp, the PET, and all the other that were dancing around and still going strong back in 1984. I didn't [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland’s treatment of employees makes no sense
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) has warned its UK staff that they must have their primary bank account with the firm or face disciplinary action. BBC One of the funnier jokes in Scott Adam's Dilbert Books is the suggestion that employees (of particularly poor employers) be forced to only buy that company's products. Of course, under the [...]
Who killed MG Rover? “I” said Patricia Hewitt
Tonight's events have been absolutely extraordinary. Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced that MG Rover had called in the receivers, and that 6,000 jobs were on the line. This is bizarre enough. The government does not announce that a privately run business has called in the receivers, the business does it itself. But it's [...]
