After years of setbacks it is time for YouView to face up to its rivals November 18, 2012 RICHARD Halton has not had an easy couple of years. Having taken the reins at YouView in September 2010 – the same year the internet-connected TV box was originally pencilled in to go on sale – he has had to deal with questions about project delays, criticism over the price of the hardware, and, last [...]
Miles: room for additional QE if growth is weak November 18, 2012 THE Bank of England still has the firepower to boost a sluggish economy and has scope for further stimulus with more asset purchases, policymaker David Miles said yesterday. “If growth does stay very weak and inflation stays low and close to the target level there is more that we can do, we have not run [...]
Cable promises tax crackdown from chancellor November 15, 2012 BUSINESS secretary Vince Cable said yesterday he expects George Osborne to use his upcoming Autumn Statement to address the controversial issue of tax avoidance, after a string of companies were accused of diverting tax revenues away from the UK. Speaking to Sky News, Cable said moves to prevent “systematic abuse” could be announced as early [...]
John Lewis boss urges action on foreign firm tax payments November 14, 2012 THE managing director of retail chain John Lewis last night called on the government to examine the way foreign multinationals pay tax in the UK. Andy Street said the Treasury needs to do more to prevent the likes of online retailer Amazon “destroying the UK tax base” and potentially putting British companies out of business. [...]
Entrepreneurialawards aplenty November 14, 2012 MORE entrepreneurial talent was being celebrated over on Park Lane on Tuesday evening, at the 2012 National Business Awards. The 11th annual ceremony at the Grosvenor hotel was opened with a video message from Prime Minister David Cameron, and followed by a speech from Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury. Motivational speaking, not that [...]
A car you’ll be able to tell from Adam November 13, 2012 I’M STANDING in a hotel car park outside Lisbon and my head hurts. Forty different versions of Vauxhall’s new lifestyle city car, called Adam, are laid out in front of me and I’m not sure I particularly like the look of any of them. This, I suspect, is entirely the point – Vauxhall’s diminutive new [...]
BBC in crisis: This is no excuse to destroy a respected broadcaster November 12, 2012 IT BEGAN with anger at bankers, intensified during the MPs’ expenses crisis, and continued during the phone hacking scandal. Now the BBC finds itself at the brunt of a long-running mob mentality. This latest extension of the Saville Affair has seen the BBC’s director general George Entwistle resign, and senior executives set aside. It all [...]
It is time for the BBC to allow its viewers freedom to choose November 12, 2012 WHAT a mess. The BBC, Britain’s most powerful and influential media company, is in crisis; the resignation of its director general hasn’t been enough to halt the chaos. Radical changes are needed to reform, strengthen and preserve the BBC; if Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, doesn’t want to introduce them then he [...]
BBC under fire November 12, 2012 THE BBC was thrown into disarray yesterday as it attempted to limit the fallout from the scandal that saw director-general George Entwistle resign over the weekend. BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten, who appointed Entwistle to the top role at the corporation, said the future of the BBC was at stake if the broadcaster did not [...]
It is time for the BBC to allow its viewers freedom to choose November 12, 2012 WHAT a mess. The BBC, Britain’s most powerful and influential media company, is in crisis; the resignation of its director general hasn’t been enough to halt the chaos. Radical changes are needed to reform, strengthen and preserve the BBC; if Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, doesn’t want to introduce them then he [...]