So the fuel crisis might have been averted for now. As a good friend of mine said to me yesterday – I drove past the petrol station and saw all the people queueing for petrol and I wondered if they had too much time on their hands… I liked the sign outside a pub on […]
Lord Davies’ boardroom gender targets ignored by most UK firms
All but a handful of the UK’s biggest companies missed last week’s deadline to set out their plans to put more women on their boards. Only eight companies in the FTSE 100 have announced how they aim to meet the target of 25% women directors set down by the government. Proportion of women on boards […]
Some good news on the Economy at last with inflation falling against the odds
Well, its about time isn’t it. Dear dear, not good news for the media and doom mongerers. Inflation has fallen – against all predicitons of it going up to 5% it actually fell to 4% in Feb. Quite obviously nobody should be getting overly excited about this – it is still too high, but at […]
New Website to Tackle Business Regulation.
New Website to Tackle Business Regulation A new website to be introduced by the Government will give the people their opportunity to say which rules and regulations should be chucked out. Politicians will have 3 months to justify the rule / law, or it will be removed. David Cameron has pledged that the Coalition will […]
Red Tape hampering the economic recovery? You bet ya!
Our personal experience of the constant challenge of running a small business is enough to convince us that there is no real help from government. Not yet anyway. The banks can fluff all they want about people not asking for finance – well let me enlighten them as to why. I spoke to my Bank […]