by Guy | Dec 5, 2012 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, Economy, Europe, Productivity, Recession, Welfare State
There’s an interesting scuffle about tax going on in the British media at the moment – and it seems that the Government is in danger of being responsible for companies contravening the Companies Act which was rewritten in 2006. This scuffle started a few months...
by Guy | Dec 17, 2011 | Banking, Business - General, Economy, Europe, Investing, Recession
There’s been an enormous amount of ink used on the ‘veto’ that David Cameron used in Europe last week, with warnings of dire consequences if the UK doesn’t help to support the Euro. Frankly, I don’t understand this as the Euro has been...
by Guy | Jun 27, 2011 | Earth Sciences, Economy, Europe, Oil, Technology
There’s a good deal of talk about power today: oil prices retaining their high levels in spite of Saudi offering to make up any shortfall due to Libya, nuclear back-tracking following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and so on. How, the media seem to be asking, is...
by Guy | Dec 25, 2010 | Airlines, Business - General, Customer Experience, CX, Customer Service, Europe
I’m going to try not to make this too much of a rant, but I’m both extremely disappointed and annoyed – not for me personally (thankfully I wasn’t directly affected), but for the thousands of people who’ve had their holiday plans, reunions and Christmas spoilt through...
by Guy | Aug 24, 2010 | Economy, Europe, Welfare State
Image via Wikipedia Or should that be “wither” as it’s clearly time to change the model dramatically – a model which was developed after the last war, in a very different world? As Dr Adrian Rogers quite famously put it, “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by...
by Guy | Apr 24, 2010 | Airlines, Business - General, Earth Sciences, Economy, Europe
Image via Wikipedia The recent chaos surrounding the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland – with effects being felt globally in terms of significant financial losses, disruption to travellers, disruption to food supplies, and so on – needs to provoke...
