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Heads you win, tails I lose – the City explained

By Clive Bates / 4 November 2007 / 4 Comments / Business

Imagine your job is taking huge gambles with other people’s savings and pensions. Imagine also that the bets are arranged

Another day, another broadside against carbon emissions trading. The FT’s Martin Wolf offers advice to the new Chancellor, including: While

By Clive Bates / 1 July 2007 / 4 Comments / Business, Health

Long awaited 1st of July arrives, and most enclosed workplaces (including pubs and restaurants) in England will go smoke-free today

By Clive Bates / 29 April 2007 / 5 Comments / Business, Health

Hopes that Big Tobacco might be in retreat are looking pretty forlorn. I came across BAT’s share price data showing

There is something stunning in the brilliance of Google Earth [download] – a streaming map of the world in the

I do occasionally enjoy an early morning BLT sandwich at Paddington station en route to the Bristol head office of

Saw Blood Diamond – an action-movie-with-a-message, though laced with clichés (mercenary with a heart of gold, pouting female journalist as

What does Gordon Brown really feel about climate change and the Stern review? Right at the moment of the Stern

A couple of interesting reports on R&D… firstly the DTI’s R&D Scoreboard 2006, where clearly more is better – at

By Clive Bates / 19 October 2006 / Leave a Comment / Business

Whatever one thinks of the sanity of the projected growth in aviation as foreseen and accommodated in the aviation white