Huhne Bill to spark higher energy costs July 10, 2011 CHRIS Huhne, the energy secretary, is set to reveal the most radical reforms of Britain’s electricity market for two decades, in a move that will see household bills further increased in the coming years. The government will publish a white paper tomorrow designed to give utility companies the £110bn financial incentives needed to invest in [...]
KEEP THE FAITH: TONY BLAIR PRAYS FOR GLOBALISATION WITH VALUES July 5, 2011 NEVER mind the JP Morgan advisory gig, Tony Blair’s real focus post-politics is his religious faith – despite being warned by former aide Alastair Campbell not to make a feature of his Christian beliefs. “We don’t do God,” Campbell growled to Blair, after the former Prime Minister’s Christian faith became the headline in one of [...]
KEEP THE FAITH: TONY BLAIR PRAYS FOR GLOBALISATION WITH VALUES July 5, 2011 NEVER mind the JP Morgan advisory gig, Tony Blair’s real focus post-politics is his religious faith – despite being warned by former aide Alastair Campbell not to make a feature of his Christian beliefs. “We don’t do God,” Campbell growled to Blair, after the former Prime Minister’s Christian faith became the headline in one of [...]
Tensions over referendum hit fever pitch after Huhne attack May 3, 2011 SIMMERING coalition tensions over tomorrow’s referendum on AV reached boiling point yesterday, after Chris Huhne launched an extraordinary attack against the Prime Minister and chancellor during a cabinet meeting. In heated exchanges, the climate change secretary challenged David Cameron and George Osborne to “disassociate” themselves from the No campaign, which he claims is “trashing” the [...]
BARRED: MOBILE BOSS TALKS HIS WAY INTO HIS OWN GLASTO PARTY June 30, 2011 IF YOUR name’s not down, you’re coming in – not even if your name is Tom Alexander, chief executive of Everything Everywhere, and you are trying to get in to your own party at Glastonbury. As the other partygoers got stuck in to the free drinks inside the VIP farmhouse rented by the mobile phone [...]
BARRED: MOBILE BOSS TALKS HIS WAY INTO HIS OWN GLASTO PARTY June 30, 2011 IF YOUR name’s not down, you’re coming in – not even if your name is Tom Alexander, chief executive of Everything Everywhere, and you are trying to get in to your own party at Glastonbury. As the other partygoers got stuck in to the free drinks inside the VIP farmhouse rented by the mobile phone [...]
Branson’s challenge: change banking November 17, 2011 FOR a man who built much of his empire on the back of Boeing jumbo jets, it was fitting to see Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin pay out £747m for Northern Rock. George Osborne was right to sell the Rock – there was no guarantee that holding on would have engineered a better deal for the [...]
High-energy industries hit by carbon price floor March 24, 2011 ENERGY policy changes introduced in the Budget will heap costs on energy-intensive industries, pressure groups warned yesterday. Energy-intensive manufacturers of products such as steel, glass and paper will see their costs soar as the carbon price floor rises from £16 per tonne of CO2 today to £30/tonne by 2020. Jeremy Nicholson, director of the Energy [...]
Draghi’s rein at ECB marks the start of new era October 30, 2011 YOU may have missed it if you were busy stressing over Greece and the European debt crisis. So let me just flesh it out. The month of October has been unbelievably bullish for stocks regardless of the mess that Europe still finds itself in and the recession worries everyone keeps talking about. In the US, [...]
Draghi’s rein at ECB marks the start of new era October 30, 2011 YOU may have missed it if you were busy stressing over Greece and the European debt crisis. So let me just flesh it out. The month of October has been unbelievably bullish for stocks regardless of the mess that Europe still finds itself in and the recession worries everyone keeps talking about. In the US, [...]