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By: Nick Peters - 10 April 2012 - 0 Comments

Keith Williams, the chief executive of British Airways, is our cover story. He talks about how he became one of the most powerful figures in world aviation, how £5.5bn is being invested in the [...]

Diplomacy’s golden mediators
By: Charles Crawford - 02 May 2012 - 0 Comments

A man buys an evil-looking golden rat in a mysterious antique shop. As he walks home more and more rats start to follow him. Seized by fear he runs to the quayside, and jumps on a boat. Thousands of rats leap [...]

Camden company wins export prize
By: Nick Peters - 02 May 2012 - 0 Comments

So the government believes that if 25% of the UK’s SME’s were to start developing overseas markets for their products and services then a major hole in the nation’s trade figures – and GDP – would be filled. It [...]

Why is exporting important to UK business?
By: Simon OBrien - 02 May 2012 - 0 Comments

The answer is obvious. But Simon O’Brien says it still makes businesses nervous. With the UK still recovering from arguably the worst recession in living memory, many influential economists and business leaders are encouraging businesses looking to foreign shores to [...]

Stagflation stalks the economy
By: Nick Peters - 30 April 2012 - 0 Comments

The three-card trick that politicians try to pull off is to persuade us that they are in control of events. This is, of course, self-evidently impossible. If the economic peril in which we find [...]

LONDON – Centre stage beckons!
By: Nick Peters - 24 April 2012 - 0 Comments

Hands up – who is looking forward to the Olympic Games? Whether you’re rubbing your hands in glee at the thought of the business opportunities or holding your head in despair at the chaos the event will potentially bring [...]

All in this together…?
By: Iqbal Wahhab - 20 April 2012 - 0 Comments

When it was announced that three quarters of those convicted in last year’s riots and looting already had criminal records, most of us muttered to ourselves, ‘Not surprised.’ But how many of us did more than mutter? The vast majority of prisoners who [...]

Win a driving day with Jaguar!
By: Nick Peters - 18 April 2012 - 2 Comments

Would you like to be the guest of Jaguar Corporate for a day of high-intensity driving, with a chance to take the wheel of the fabulous new XK-R? Then answer this far from challenging [...]

Defence Cuts: The silver lining for business
By: Nick Peters - 17 April 2012 - 0 Comments

Britain’s armed forces are to shrink by 17,000 by 2015. To those who believe in a strong military this is a sad blow, but at the same time it is a huge opportunity for British business. The flow of [...]

The Business of Human Rights
By: Leo Martin - 17 April 2012 - 0 Comments

Last summer, the United Nations published John Ruggie’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Designed to provide businesses with practical guidelines that could be reasonably followed, it was the culmination of a six-year period of consultation with governments, businesses, NGOs, community groups [...]

Have you ever been Phreaked?
By: Nick Peters - 15 April 2012 - 0 Comments

If the answer is Yes, you are not alone. Businesses up and down the land have lost billions – that’s right, billions – of pounds through the activities of phreakers. And not just businesses. Schools, [...]