My wife and I took our grandson to the Olympic site on an organised walk. We couldn’t actually get in to see the inside of any of the facilities, but the guide was good and we got a good view of the overall setup. London 2012 has cost 8 billion pounds to stage. There is …
At last Mr. Diamond, CEO of Barclays has resigned. He is an arrogant, greedy bully. Good riddance. A person I know who works in the financial sector was recently moaning about the way the British government was trying to reform the banking sector. “Wrecking it”, as he put it. “If this goes on everyone in …
Le premier ministre anglais est plaisant de vouloir accueillir chez lui les riches Francais fuyant l’impot. Ils aideront parait-il a financer les services publics. Il aurait du dire: ce qu’il en reste. Car peut-etre nos fuyards croiseront-ils en route des citoyens britanniques venant vers Paris pour trouver des soins qu’ils n’ont pas chez eux, ou …
Sir Martin Sorrell is head of WPP, one of the biggest advertising companies in the world. Faced with the prospect of a shareholder defeat over his pay, most other company executives “disappear from view like a grinning Cheshire cat”. Not Sorrell. Ahead of WPP’s AGM, which saw 59.5% of shareholders vote against the remuneration report, …
According to Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations the number of Americans recently killed in terrorist attacks is comparable to the number crushed to death by falling television sets or furniture each year. Yet in pursuit of the so-called War on Terror, now re-named “overseas contingency operations”, the US will, in 2012, spend …
