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The Budget that never was 26 Mar 2010 | 02:53 am
The penny seems to be dropping today that it wasn’t Wednesday’s Budget that mattered but the one that follows it. If the Tories win power, they’ll dress it up dramatically as an emergency Budget to be...
An unsurprising Budget? 24 Mar 2010 | 08:50 am
Budgets are really political events. You find out the reality days, weeks and sometimes months afterwards. Wednesday's Budget is even more political than normal, because it's the last one before the g...
Every little helps Eastside 10 Mar 2010 | 08:25 am
Tesco faces a battle on two fronts in its bid to become the first bricks and mortar to rise up out of the ground on Nottingham’s Eastside. One is from people who view Britain’s biggest supermarket gro...
We're climbing rather than crawling 26 Feb 2010 | 11:53 pm
It was back in January that figures from the Office for National Statistics confirmed what many analysts had suspected for sometime: that the UK economy came out of recession in the last three months ...
Toyota: what comes after hubris? 25 Feb 2010 | 12:10 am
As I forecast on this blog a couple of weeks ago, Toyota is indeed being given an almost ritualised pummelling in the USA. Right now, it seems that anyone who has ever had an accident in a Toyota over...
Old money and new ideas 24 Feb 2010 | 12:05 pm
There is no irony in spin these days, not when it comes straight from the mouth of Peter Mandelson. Yesterday, there was an announcement that the East Midlands Development Agency would get £22m of 'ne...
Toyota: lost in translation 9 Feb 2010 | 12:57 am
How has one of the most respected car companies in the world apparently managed to drop the ball in such a big way? One thing's for sure: Toyota hasn't suddenly stopped making very reliable cars. What...
Recession: another statistical health warning 26 Jan 2010 | 11:20 pm
Today's news that the economy grew again in the last three months of 2009 will actually come as a bit of a disappointment. The UK hasn't so much climbed out of recession as crawled, managing a 0.1% ri...
Bye-bye recession, hello hard slog 26 Jan 2010 | 05:00 am
We'll be told tomorrow - at long last - that the UK economy has finally come out of one of the longest recessions on record. As I've blogged before, business probably stopped contracting sometime towa...
It's chilly in Minsk today 22 Jan 2010 | 02:27 am
My spies in Belarus tell me that Nottingham's delegation to Minsk has been frozen out. That's only because of the weather, though - it's minus 15 and they are all walking around in Russian hats, larg...
