Andreas Whittam Smith: The jobless are our own fault, not anyone else's
2011-11-17 00:00:01.0
A high proportion of businesses say that job-seekers lack basic literacy and numeracy
2011-11-17 00:00:01.0
A high proportion of businesses say that job-seekers lack basic literacy and numeracy
2011-11-11 00:00:01.0
Our politicians don't lack brainpower or ability. But what they do lack are knowledge and training
2011-11-03 00:00:01.0
The two important control mechanisms are active shareholders and perceptive regulators
2011-10-27 00:00:01.0
They are no more likely to agree to reform than the Mafia. Waste no time asking them to. Just do it
2011-10-20 00:00:01.0
If there is going to be a revolutionary outburst, you do not get much warning. Writing of the European revolutions of 1848, for instance, one historian recently noted: "At the beginning of 1848 no one believed that revolution was imminent." Now the reason I have gone back to accounts of 1848 is because this date has kept popping into my head as protests against contemporary capitalism have spread round the world.
2011-10-06 00:00:01.0
We need to start worrying about drone proliferation. More than 40 countries now have the technology. It’s not as if you can flee from drones
2011-09-29 00:00:01.0
One disobliging story of police failings follows another... Yvette Cooper has done a good thing in setting up an independent review of the force
2011-09-23 00:00:01.0
Trans fats have disappeared from the New York restaurant table. This is the sort of action food manufacturers are going to have to learn to live with
2011-09-15 00:00:01.0
Its agreement with Greece to restructure its economy so that it could grow and repay its debts - thus preserving the euro - has frayed to breaking point
2011-09-10 00:00:01.0
The reason why half the Cabinet didn’t know it was at war was that the Iraq engagement was being run exclusively by Downing Street
2011-07-28 00:00:01.0
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