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UK Govt’s Clueless Carbon Guru is Blowing Your £160 Billion Away
Britain’s top green bureaucrat on Carbon Markets and Climate Change admits she doesn’t know what she is doing with 160 billion ($250 billion) of European taxes. Take a moment to think about this before moving on to the rest of the article: th… Continue reading
Why do the stupid float to the top?
So we seem to be setting ourselves up for a good old fashioned 1970s style oil shock, with all the economic misery that entails (for those of us that can remember back that far). However this time, instead of learning the lessons from that period,… Continue reading
Is asset based IT finance a way out of the capital straightjacket?
Despite ever increasing profits the banks are still not lending to small businesses. That is the claim made this week as yet another bank revealed burgeoning profits while UK businesses continued to struggle. Although moves are being made to incre… Continue reading
Keep working whatever the weather with virtual desktops
Many companies will have desks with standard PCs, which then connect to the central network. Most of the work done by the PC is running applications locally (and therefore have to be installed locally on each device), for which the PC runs a 90-20… Continue reading
UK Carbon Tax May Force High Tech Companies Abroad
Just when you think you are doing your bit to keep the economy moving you find another barrier slapped in your way, and this one could add to the jobs and investment drain in a key UK sector – technology. It is less public facing than the hospit… Continue reading
Spending Review – Disaster or Opportunity for Innovation?
Wednesday and Thursday of this week have certainly been tumultuous for us as much as anybody, not just in that we finally found out just how much less money will be in circulation in the next 4 years (if you don’t count all the Quantative Easing f… Continue reading
Action on Climate Change Greatest Public Policy Disaster Since Communism – Vaclav Klaus
Tonight I was sat not 20 feet from the President of the Czech Republic when he stated this, during his speech at the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation – a policy unit set up by Lord Lawson amongst others to try and tame the… Continue reading
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