Tag Archives: George Osborne

Sir Martin Sorrell and WPP have been lobbying hard for changes to the UK ‘controlled foreign companies’ tax rules which are designed to stop UK-based companies and their overseas subsidiaries paying lower rates of tax abroad. The UK coalition government ...

It’s been an annus mirabilis for many of us without a doubt but Crossroads films director Nick Scott and his producer Michael Berliner have come up with a nice take on it all in this short film ‘School Portrait.’ School ...

Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase ‘bully pulpit’ although he didn’t mean bully in its modern sense, bully meant something good for the extrovert US president and big game hunter. But Teddy realised that the status of president gave you the ...

Sir Richard Branson has wanted to get into UK banking for years and now, finally, he’s succeeded by agreeing to buy bailed-out northern-based bank Northern Rock from the UK government for £747m. It’s not clear yet if Rorthern Rock will ...

UK chancellor George Osborne is supposed to have been the politician who persuaded then Tory leader (and now PM) David Cameron to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his director of communications (not the wisest advice ...

Ever since the crash of 2008 the world’s bankers, many of whom have pitched their tents in the UK, have had more verbal ordure heaped on them than any group of people since, well, the last religious martyrs in Western ...

Chris Pilling, currently head of HSBC’s bank branch network in the UK, is joining the country’s second-biggest building society Yorkshire as CEO. The move is interesting on two counts: building societies have been pretty moribund since the 2008 credit crunch, ...

Well that’s the way it looks at the moment as UK retailers Carpetright and Thornton’s (which makes and sells chocolate) prepare to slash the size of their high street estates and fashion chain Jane Norman tumbles into a pre-pack administration ...

The last year and a bit has been a turbulent time for the UK government’s communicators. It was always likely to be the case, with the coalition government wielding its new broom. A haze of resignations, slightly fewer appointments, U-Turns ...