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The Sun’s late show of support for Tony Blair six weeks before the 1997 general election sealed, maybe even swelled Labour’s landslide victory,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | September 30, 2009 11:45AM | No Comments »
For all their UK-shaming investment in renewable energy, like announcing the construction of the world’s largest solar array this week, China’s passage to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | September 29, 2009 11:33AM | 1 Comment »
The balancing act of keeping the City an attractive place for the shamelessly avaricious, while also regulating it to make sure the sector isn’t left…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 28, 2009 12:53PM | No Comments »
The tug of war on issues at the G20 summit duly began yesterday, with financial regulation vying for attention with the reformation of the Internation…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 25, 2009 11:48AM | 1 Comment »
The last G20 summit saw Brown milking his statesman role, the public getting all hot and flustered at the Obamas, and Berlusconi annoying…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 24, 2009 12:59PM | No Comments »
It’s nearly a year since we at Bad Idea started blogging in earnest, surfing on the swell of stories brought about by the collapse of…
Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Other | September 23, 2009 2:44PM | 2 Comments »
The Netflix prize, whose winner was announced yesterday, was either an innovative method of crowdsourcing previously specialised and disparate skills, or a way…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | September 22, 2009 12:39PM | 2 Comments »
Political point-scoring never really goes away, but with the general election looming inevitably next year the whole “cuts” saga has taken on an extra cattiness…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 21, 2009 12:45PM | No Comments »
Yesterday Carlos Ghosn, head of Nissan/Renault, said that oil needs to stay above $70 a barrel or no-one will end up buying his…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | September 17, 2009 12:38PM | 1 Comment »
The financial services industry is like a nervous lover – if you pump it full of praise and confidence, it perks up and performs, but…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 16, 2009 2:38PM | 1 Comment »
The idea of a “living will” being part of a more stringently regulated banking sector is something that’s been gathering pace recently, and the idea…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 15, 2009 12:37PM | 1 Comment »
Last year saw Mars chew up Wrigley for $23bn, right as the world was barrelling towards all-out recession. Now once again, makers of food you…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 9, 2009 12:38PM | 3 Comments »
