Business First Magazine Ltd » News http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:02:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Can’t help thinking the more @… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/cant-help-thinking-the-more/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/cant-help-thinking-the-more/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:02:04 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/cant-help-thinking-the-more/ Can’t help thinking the more @Kevin_Maguire tries to emulate @campbellclaret, the less he succeeds. I’d regard that as a result. Does he?

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/cant-help-thinking-the-more/feed/ 0 Odds on the SFO getting Asil N… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/odds-on-the-sfo-getting-asil-n/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/odds-on-the-sfo-getting-asil-n/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:54:07 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/odds-on-the-sfo-getting-asil-n/ Odds on the SFO getting Asil Nadir bang to rights? On their track record…oh, about zero I think…

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/odds-on-the-sfo-getting-asil-n/feed/ 0 @OliverCooper Link broken… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-link-broken/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-link-broken/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:03:19 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-link-broken/ @OliverCooper Link broken…

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-link-broken/feed/ 0 @iaindale Queen? Hilarious tha… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iaindale-queen-hilarious-tha/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iaindale-queen-hilarious-tha/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:42:27 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iaindale-queen-hilarious-tha/ @iaindale Queen? Hilarious that she is trading on hubby’s notoriety. If only it weren’t so sad!

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iaindale-queen-hilarious-tha/feed/ 0 @nickbroom – thought you’d lik… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickbroom-thought-youd-lik/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickbroom-thought-youd-lik/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:02:51 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickbroom-thought-youd-lik/ @nickbroom – thought you’d like this @TimMontgomerie. Nice Guardian graphic on councils’ spending on websites http://is.gd/elok6

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickbroom-thought-youd-lik/feed/ 0 Tim Price is brilliant on the … http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/tim-price-is-brilliant-on-the/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/tim-price-is-brilliant-on-the/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:17:10 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/tim-price-is-brilliant-on-the/ Tim Price is brilliant on the myth of equities. Business First Magazine http://bit.ly/cBTe9E

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/tim-price-is-brilliant-on-the/feed/ 0 Oops! I was right…more publi… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/oops-i-was-right-more-publi/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/oops-i-was-right-more-publi/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:16:52 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/oops-i-was-right-more-publi/ Oops! I was right…more public money spent on lobby groups to sway policy. The Road Safety Analysis group was set up by DfT and TV Police.

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/oops-i-was-right-more-publi/feed/ 0 Investigate this lot’s funding… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/investigate-this-lots-funding/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/investigate-this-lots-funding/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:14:26 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/investigate-this-lots-funding/ Investigate this lot’s funding – any from DfT? “Road risk higher among deprived children, says study” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10989119

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/investigate-this-lots-funding/feed/ 0 Good luck to the new magazine … http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-luck-to-the-new-magazine/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-luck-to-the-new-magazine/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:31:12 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-luck-to-the-new-magazine/ Good luck to the new magazine @SOBrightonHove! Glossy stable mate of excellent SO Tunbridge Wells and Guildford.

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-luck-to-the-new-magazine/feed/ 0 Insanity – see Public Funded L… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/insanity-see-public-funded-l/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/insanity-see-public-funded-l/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:21:44 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/insanity-see-public-funded-l/ Insanity – see Public Funded Lobbying of Dave Pays Off – Guy Fawkes’ blog. http://bit.ly/dqw7sS

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/insanity-see-public-funded-l/feed/ 0 @TimMontgomerie Would you coun… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-would-you-coun/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-would-you-coun/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:30:24 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-would-you-coun/ @TimMontgomerie Would you count yourself as ticking two of those boxes Tim? Respect!

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-would-you-coun/feed/ 0 Newsnight debate on personal r… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/newsnight-debate-on-personal-r/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/newsnight-debate-on-personal-r/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:51:24 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/newsnight-debate-on-personal-r/ Newsnight debate on personal responsibility for health a travesty. Bottom line: nanny knows best and must pay. Nuts.

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/newsnight-debate-on-personal-r/feed/ 0 BBC report on speed cams doesn… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bbc-report-on-speed-cams-doesn/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bbc-report-on-speed-cams-doesn/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:20:55 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bbc-report-on-speed-cams-doesn/ BBC report on speed cams doesn’t mention Swindon where switch off reduced deaths and injuries. WHY?

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bbc-report-on-speed-cams-doesn/feed/ 0 @nickherbertmp Is it a questio… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickherbertmp-is-it-a-questio/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickherbertmp-is-it-a-questio/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:50:04 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickherbertmp-is-it-a-questio/ @nickherbertmp Is it a question of good aim or good taste?

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/nickherbertmp-is-it-a-questio/feed/ 0 Marina Hyde on England and Fra… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/marina-hyde-on-england-and-fra/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/marina-hyde-on-england-and-fra/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:24:23 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/marina-hyde-on-england-and-fra/ Marina Hyde on England and Frank Lampard’s gold iPods…yes, you couldn’t make this stuff up http://gu.com/p/2tz63/tw

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/marina-hyde-on-england-and-fra/feed/ 0 @OliverCooper @TimMontgomerie … http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-timmontgomerie/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-timmontgomerie/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:43:46 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-timmontgomerie/ @OliverCooper @TimMontgomerie yes. the absurdity of the ‘must stay in to trade’ argument is we hand all that money straight back.

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/olivercooper-timmontgomerie/feed/ 0 @TimMontgomerie http://twitpic… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-httptwitpic/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-httptwitpic/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:18:21 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-httptwitpic/ @TimMontgomerie http://twitpic.com/29gzk9 – Bet you the taxes paid by UK plc on profits from EU trade don’t amount to £14.4bn. Do you know?

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/timmontgomerie-httptwitpic/feed/ 0 Recruitment Revolution http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/i-like-disruptive-ideas-the-r/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/i-like-disruptive-ideas-the-r/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:15:43 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/i-like-disruptive-ideas-the-r/ I like disruptive ideas. The recruitment business has been in need of one for a long time. yourpeoplemarket.com seem to be onto something.  http://bit.ly/944z7A

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/i-like-disruptive-ideas-the-r/feed/ 0 Lord March: I fear for future … http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/lord-march-i-fear-for-future/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/lord-march-i-fear-for-future/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:54:38 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/lord-march-i-fear-for-future/ Lord March: I fear for future of horse racing. Calls for revolution in racing. http://bit.ly/czkXUU

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/lord-march-i-fear-for-future/feed/ 0 IoD takens on the banks. Good … http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iod-takens-on-the-banks-good/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iod-takens-on-the-banks-good/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:07:56 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iod-takens-on-the-banks-good/ IoD takens on the banks. Good for them. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/63cb806a-8de5-11df-9153-00144feab49a.html

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/iod-takens-on-the-banks-good/feed/ 0 RT @AMERICAblog: When in a PR … http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/rt-americablog-when-in-a-pr/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/rt-americablog-when-in-a-pr/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:03:01 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/rt-americablog-when-in-a-pr/ RT @AMERICAblog: When in a PR hole, stop digging! BP puts fake photo of crisis command centre on its BP site http://bt.io/FfBL

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/rt-americablog-when-in-a-pr/feed/ 0 @grantshapps Worth mentioning … http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/grantshapps-worth-mentioning/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/grantshapps-worth-mentioning/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:05:33 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/grantshapps-worth-mentioning/ @grantshapps Worth mentioning that the BigSoc has been working away in the background v. effectively for some time: http://bit.ly/bbx9AU

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/grantshapps-worth-mentioning/feed/ 0 Is Apple rotting? http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/is-apple-beginning-to-look-a-l/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/is-apple-beginning-to-look-a-l/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:31:42 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/is-apple-beginning-to-look-a-l/ If this is anywhere close to being a true picture, then Apple may have peaked.  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a2027809.html

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/is-apple-beginning-to-look-a-l/feed/ 0 Question Time is a joke. Sally… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/question-time-is-a-joke-sally/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/question-time-is-a-joke-sally/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:11:48 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/question-time-is-a-joke-sally/ Question Time is a joke. Sally Bercow? Who she? Nick Ferrari? Ex-Sun showbiz shill, George Galloway? Old joke. BBC – apologise.

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/question-time-is-a-joke-sally/feed/ 0 Good news for rail travellers…. http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-news-for-rail-travellers/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-news-for-rail-travellers/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:25:59 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-news-for-rail-travellers/ Good news for rail travellers. About time.  http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/news.htm

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/good-news-for-rail-travellers/feed/ 0 Bit late onto this one. Govern… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bit-late-onto-this-one-govern/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bit-late-onto-this-one-govern/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:16:41 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bit-late-onto-this-one-govern/ Bit late onto this one. Government web site waste. Utter debacle, massive kick in the teeth for private web companies http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/07/the_105m_website.html

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bit-late-onto-this-one-govern/feed/ 0 Freedom from government meddli… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/freedom-from-government-meddli/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/freedom-from-government-meddli/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:43:38 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/freedom-from-government-meddli/ UPDATE: Cameron says he wasn’t trying to censor Facebook, just let them know what trash they were hosting. Well backed-down Mr. C. Unless you wanted, as @ftwestminster suggests, to get the Mr. Tough Guy headlines in the morning with nice liberal misunderstanding explanation in the afternoon. Which would be spin. But we don’t do that. Do we?

Freedom from government meddling means accepting things we don’t like, Mr. Cameron. Leave Facebook alone.

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/freedom-from-government-meddli/feed/ 0 Britain’s energy crisis, the p… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/britains-energy-crisis-the-p/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/britains-energy-crisis-the-p/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:37:29 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/britains-energy-crisis-the-p/ Britain’s energy crisis, the perils of office sex, the KGB Chief and the death of KAL 007, this and more in the latest Business First.

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/britains-energy-crisis-the-p/feed/ 0 New Business First out today….. http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/new-business-first-out-today/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/new-business-first-out-today/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:26:30 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/new-business-first-out-today/ New Business First out today…increased circulation, hitting top addresses in the City via rack space and now in Star Alliance lounges as …

]]> http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/new-business-first-out-today/feed/ 0 #bbcquestiontime Michael Forsy… http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bbcquestiontime-michael-forsy/ http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bbcquestiontime-michael-forsy/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:54:46 +0000 the sceptic http://www.businessfirstmagazine.co.uk/blog/index.php/bbcquestiontime-michael-forsy/ #bbcquestiontime Michael Forsyth’s look of barely concealed contempt for this idiot Ed Byrne is delicious.

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