Some time ago I wrote a blog about why I consider premiership footballers are worth the money they receive. Whilst I appreciate it may not be a view that is palatable to everyone, most football fans don’t really have a problem with the amount their team get paid (provided they are winning!).
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So as my earlier posts have made clear, the government is now really starting to show its true commitment to small business. Mr Cameron and his government have made so much noise about how important small business is to the economy yet:-
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Some time ago I posted an item about the Small Business Economic Forum. I had requested information under the Freedom of Information Act to find out who had attended and what had been discussed. I managed to get a list of who had attended – most completely unrepresentative of the small business community – but [...]
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The announcement that the American government is strongly considering prosecution of the auditing firm Ernst and Young (E&Y) following on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, raises a number of other serious considerations.
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Despite recent encouraging unemployment statistics, parts of the country are bracing themselves for major job losses as the spending cuts bite. This is particularly the case in areas of the country where the public sector played a prominent part in the local employment make-up and this seems to be the case in much of [...]
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So Vince Cable and George Osborne are supposedly meeting with representatives of the banks today (Monday 20 December) to tell them in no uncertain terms (!!!) of the folly of paying large bank bonuses.
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The government has announced that the post of the Enterprise Czar has been scrapped following Lord Young’s recent resignation from the position over his comments about the recession.
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The Government’s interesting announcement that they intend to introduce a new rate of corporation tax to be levied on profits from new products developed and generated in Britain, being called “the patent box” is an interesting concept, albeit one that does exist in certain other European countries.
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Companies House have announced that most of its services will be online by March 2013.
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A recent article in the Evening Standard made mention of a University don in Ulster whose research suggested that there was little evidence of any positive impact from government support programmes for small business.
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