No news is not good news
We read today that The Times Online plans to charge for access to its...
Talking Turkey
So Turkey is feeling rather hurt by criticism of the alleged failings of its...
Sick as a Parrot
What is it with Bank of America? Some of you may recall that we’ve...
Boxing Clever?
However, today we hear of some fantastic lateral thinking – way out of the box – although like many such ideas the implications can be unpalatable. The left…
GM Humming a different tune
From a corporate strategy standpoint it is actually good to see GM taking the tough decisions. With Hummer, as they did with Saab, GM has explored options, come…
Oil in troubled waters
Echoes of 1982 are starting to reverberate around the UN as Britain and Argentina once again raise the ante on sovereignty around the Falkland Islands.
Risky Games?
John Varley, the man at the top at Barclays, has responded to the calls to limit the size of the banks. Mr Varley points out that it is not the size of the bank…
Lean times at Toyota
So what has gone wrong at Toyota? For the past couple of decades Toyota...
The Scrap Trap
With the impending end of the various car scrappage schemes in Europe and other...
Freedom, no compromise
Google’s announcement that it is considering pulling out of China raises some interesting questions...
Banking Madness
In 1953 President Eisenhower suggested that the then Superpowers of the US and Russia...
The Future Starts Here…
Charles F. Kettering once said, “We should all be concerned about the future because...