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Ross Clark

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Ross is a freelance journalist and columnist on The Spectator, The Times and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Great Before, a satire on the anti-globalisation movement, and How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations that are Strangling Britain, published by Harriman House, about the lunacy of red tape.

He has been a regular contributor to Real Business magazine for several years. We like his acerbic, witty style: hope you do, too.

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Jump on board the climate change bandwagon img 1
By Ross Clark
I don’t know about polar bears, but climate change certainly isn’t in danger of driving public sector workers to extinction.

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Why equal pay tribunals are undermining the labour market
By Ross Clark
I never thought I would live to see the day when I felt nostalgia for seventies trade unions, but now I am not so sure.

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Health and Safety madness will kill your business
By Ross Clark
It is gradually dawning on me that the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) may well be nothing more than a large installation of conceptual art.

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Is it worth the tender?
By Ross Clark
There’s only one winner in public procurement.

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Which law would you tear up?
By Ross Clark
Five government pledges that really would make a difference

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Stuck in the middle
By Ross Clark
The firm that was killed by the battle of the quangos

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Watch out for dormice
By Ross Clark
Biodiversity is the new regulatory black.

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Danger at the drycleaners
By Ross Clark
New targets for squeaky clean HSE

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Go on, opt out of work
By Ross Clark
Now you must count your hours at work

BUSINESS NEWS >>

Benn lauds the low-carbon revolution

By Catherine Woods - May 16, 2008 5:22pm GMT

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has urged more people to pursue eco-preneurial ventures saying the environmental industries are going to be “more significant in the future”.

Stealth business makes a bang

By Matthew Rock & Real Deals - May 16, 2008 1:35pm GMT

A couple of years ago, the ownership of QinetiQ was a major public scandal, with commentators suggesting it should never be in private (let alone private equity) hands. Now the former government research department is yielding exciting entrepreneurial ventures.

Office Relocation: A ‘How To Guide’

By Real Business - May 15, 2008 4:09pm GMT

Office design and build specialist Morgan Lovell has helped thousands of companies successfully move into new workplaces. Here are its ten top tips to make office moves run like clockwork.

Heathrow's T5 was "the right move"

By Kate Pritchard - May 14, 2008 3:52pm GMT

Despite the public backlash, the 20,000 pieces of lost luggage and hundreds of cancelled flights, Asian entrepreneur Surinder Arora says the government was right to give British Airports Authority its blessing to expand Heathrow airport.

Vegan company brings meat to the masses

By Melissa Hancock - May 14, 2008 2:25pm GMT

Set up by a vegan father and daughter team in 2003, Beanies Health Foods has simultaneously cornered a niche and appealed to the mainstream by selling meat-replacement foods.

Brochures on Saving and investing

BUSINESS COMMENT >>

Dragons, drugs and Darling

By Kate Pritchard - May 16, 2008 5:25pm GMT

Dragons’ Den star James Caan cosied up to a drug offender. Prince Charles downed a high-energy “super juice”. And Chancellor Alistair Darling managed to crack a joke. Yesterday’s Enterprise Leadership Conference, run by The Prince’s Trust, was full of surprises.

Manufacturing: the fightback

By Matthew Rock - May 16, 2008 2:16pm GMT

Following James Caan's blast against manufacturing, the BBC's In Business programme devoted half an hour or riveting radio to "maverick manufacturing companies" and how they are thriving against the odds. 

The Apprentice: that's what I'm talking about

By Matthew Rock - May 14, 2008 10:40pm GMT

Why it's a really important programme and we'll continue writing about it.

Simon Woodroffe gets “down with the kids”

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - May 14, 2008 5:45pm GMT

At a Skill! event held at the Merrill Lynch offices in St Paul’s today, the Yo! Sushi founder entertained students and teachers alike. But did he go too far?

Women entrepreneurs: the statistics

By Catherine Woods - May 12, 2008 5:09pm GMT

The government’s released some fascinating statistics today about female entrepreneurs and what they’re getting out of starting up on their own.

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