The outbreak of swine flu has reminded me of this warning from the Cabinet Office in March.
It conducted research that found that only half of the country’s businesses have prepared plans to cope with the impact of a flu pandemic and warned that many could fail as a res…
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Watching Europe in action is always depressing. What a carry on. The latest installment in the ongoing farce is the collapse of a ”conciliation” meeting between the Council, the Commission and the Parliament over the working time directive opt out.
As I have blogged previously, the European Parliament had voted to phase out 48 hour working week opt-out in three years.
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I can understand perfectly why those earning more than #150,000 don’t want to be subjected to a 50 per cent tax rate, particularly since there is no sound economic reason for imposing one. However, I do wish the whingeing superrich would zip it.
Come on, just listen to yourselves.
In my book, it’s bad manners to moan about money when you have an abundance of it and other people don’t - and at a time when many are suffering real hardship, I find such tantrums …
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Go on, scram. Get out. And don’t come back. You dirty little entrepreneurs and your filthy risk-taking attitude to life are not welcome here. It is that sort of Del Boy thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.
Not quite what Alistair Darling muttered during his second Budget speech. But from the strength of the reaction from the entrepreneurial community to the Chancellor’s 50pc income tax rate you could be forgiven for assuming that he had insulted their mothers.</p…
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Free flights from British Airways for small businesses looking to export.
There are 4,000 up for grabs on a first come, first served basis.
The catch is that you have to apply via UK Trade & Investment and first sign up to one of their export schemes.
The first tranche of seats is likely to go to businesses that apply for the Prime Minister’s…
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After a slowish start the pace of revolt against the government’s new 50p top rate of income tax is growing.
Business led the way at the weekend with Lord (Digby) Jones and Sir Richard Branson taking up the cudgels. Now Lord Bilimoria (who, as the founder of Cobra beer and a fellow Chelsea season ticket holder, is a man after my own heart) has weighed in with an interview in the FT in which he la…
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With Singapore’s economy already forecast to shrink by as much as 10pc this year and memories of the SARS epidemic still fresh in many minds, people here are nervous but calm.
Though only 33 people died during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore it hit the economy, which is partly reliant on tourism and business travel, hard.
While the US-Mexico border is open for business as usual with no special precautions, in Singapore, where there have been no reported cases of swine f…
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The scores:
Personal timekeeping:
Vadera: 1 Clarke 0 - she turned up on time, he turned up late and so spoke second.
Speech:
Vadera: 1 Clarke 0
Vadera spoke from notes with smart adlibs using the British Chambers’ director general’s speech to support her own points -
Clarke spoke off the cuff for most of the speech and made plenty of sweeping statements that w…
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Monday April 27
* The memory of SARS has prompted officials in Hong Kong to put in place stringent travel restrictions to ensure swine flu does not hit the city. Residents have been told not to travel to Mexico and anyone arriving on the island with a fever will be immediately detained at a hospital if they have travelled through a city with a <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/world/asia/27kong.htm…
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Friday April 24
* Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of a protest by 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners outside Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound of the Communist Party in Beijing. The demonstration has led to widespread imprisonment and allegations of torture as China stamped down on the sect. Asked about the anniversary in yesterday’s Foreign ministry press briefing, a spokesman said Falun Gong causes illness and death am…
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