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And the point of the SBS is...?
By Ross Clark
The SBS doesn’t want to help real firms, just drug addicts and drunks.

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Orwell's nightmare is realised
By Ross Clark
The state stuffs up pensions, then wants business to sort out the mess.

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Sponsorship? Of the police?
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You couldn’t make it up if you tried. The Home Office has just come up with an initiative which, even by its own record, sets a new standard for idiocy.

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An inspector calls. And then another. And another.
By Ross Clark
There is a growing number of bureaucrats who can snoop upon you.

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Clowning about as an entrepreneur
By Ross Clark
Wanted: enterprising artistes. Must blow £250m. No talent necessary.

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The con man cometh
By Ross Clark
Red tape and fraud are hard to tell apart, as the conmen have realised.

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What do you need to do to be sacked?
By Ross Clark
Good business? Hardly. Firms write employment policies out of fear.

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You don't have to grow anything to call yourself a farmer
By Ross Clark
You think you’ve got paperwork? Look at the bumf farmers produce.

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Inspecting the high-growth kettle
By Ross Clark
Tony Blair promised a red-tape bonfire. We end up inspecting tea kettles.

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Making life tougher for small firms and young women
By Ross Clark
Is the government ignorant of the true effect of the regulatory burdens it imposes on business?

BUSINESS NEWS >>

Grass Roots entrepreneur receives an MBE for social responsibility

By Kate Pritchard - July 03, 2008 5:24pm GMT

David Evans set up Herfordshire-based performance improvement firm Grass Roots in the eighties. Today, he turns over a whopping £247m, employs over 1,000 people and has just become one of only three people in the country to receive an MBE for services to CSR.

Foresight invests in Silvigen

By Real Deals & Real Business - July 03, 2008 3:45pm GMT

Silvigen, a supplier of biomass fuels for use in the power industry, will use £1.75m from Foresight to finance the development of a processing plant in Goole, North Humberside.

Countdown to Human Capital Awards

By Catherine Woods - July 03, 2008 3:38pm GMT

At last year’s CBI/Real Business Human Capital Awards, prison administrator Vicky O’Dea was crowned the ‘people’s champion’.

Farmer focuses on versatile local product

By Catherine Woods - July 03, 2008 3:10pm GMT

Farmer Andy Fussel has turned a low-value crop into a product that appeals to those who want to lower their carbon footprint, the health conscious and even Michelin-star chefs.

Nine ways to grow your business through franchising

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 03, 2008 2:28pm GMT

Brian Duckett, MD of Howarth Franchising, gives his top tips on franchising your business.

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Lee McQueen pulls a sickie

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 02, 2008 2:55pm GMT

First day on the job and Apprentice winner McQueen has been struck down by a flu-like virus.

Look out Boris! Sir Alan for Mayor?!

By Ally Papasodaro - June 27, 2008 4:10pm GMT

Sir Alan Sugar has been mooted as a possible labour candidate for Mayor of London, and the grizzly entrepreneur is up for the challenge.

The world's first Tibetan consumer brand?

By Matthew Rock - June 26, 2008 4:41pm GMT

Bizarre.

Elnaugh Vs. Paphitis. The Dragons are at war

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 26, 2008 2:45pm GMT

When Theo Paphitis suggested all women’s brains “turn to mush” when they get pregnant, fellow Dragon Rachel Elnaugh, entrepreneur and mother-of-five, breathed fire and brimstone.

I’m so excited. And I just can’t hide it.

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 25, 2008 11:09am GMT

Anyone else gearing up to go wild over the new domain name changes? No? Just think of the wit, variety and confusion it will bring to the world wide web.

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