BAD IDEA TEAM
Website Editor:
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Managing Editors:
Jack Roberts
Daniel Stacey
Contributing Editors:
Jean Hannah Edelstein
Alyssa McDonald
Sebastian Meyer
© Good Publishing, 2010
Design: Fiction Department
Website: Vanilla Storm
As scientists and now our political leaders insist we ‘go green’ to save the planet, you’d think that coal, the filthiest of all fossil…
Posted by Kieron Bryan in Green Rush | December 3, 2009 12:47PM | 3 Comments »
The UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15) was supposed to be the make or break summit. Gordon Brown gave us “fewer than 50 days to…
Posted by Kieron Bryan in Green Rush | December 2, 2009 1:37PM | 5 Comments »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Lord Carter’s Digital Britain paper is getting slagged off even before it’s been published – the Times attacks both the paper and Gordon…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | June 16, 2009 11:03AM | No Comments »
For a departing chairman, like Victor Blank who left Lloyds at the weekend, there can be no more depressing sign than your former company’s share…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 19, 2009 11:52AM | 1 Comment »
The government has announced plans to give buyers of electric cars up to £5,000 towards their purchase, incentivising people to buy the pricey…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | April 17, 2009 12:13PM | 2 Comments »
After the revival of the uptick rule that we saw being mooted yesterday, the next piece of Depression-era legislation to get bandied around…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 12, 2009 12:46PM | 1 Comment »
Short selling, the practice of betting on a fall in the share price of a company, was banned as Lehman fell back in September, and…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 11, 2009 1:22PM | 1 Comment »
Investors in Lloyds have been waiting all weekend to voice their dissatisfaction with the bank’s government bailout, and they duly sent the share price sharply…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 9, 2009 12:50PM | No Comments »
