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A great British renaissance has been taking place. From Aberdeen to the West Country, the zing is back in manufacturing. It’s about time this spectacular story was told.

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Waste electricals and directives
By Ross Clark
The WEEE directive seems certain to leave businesses down in the dumps.

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Stamp duty: the bureaucrats win again
By Ross Clark
Odds are you’ll be dead before you figure out the new stamp duty forms.

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A curse on all red tape
By Ross Clark
Another report on red tape? Please help me to challenge the mandarins.

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The nonsense of ethnic monitoring
By Ross Clark
We are all born equal. But millions are being spent putting us in boxes.

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What Whitehall knows about business
By Ross Clark
The DTI’s No-Nonsense Guide to Setting up Your Own Business? Now that is nonsense.

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Danger: stress at work
By Ross Clark
I'm trembling over Safety & Health Week.

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Work/life balance: leave it to the market
By Ross Clark
The irony of Work-Life Balance Week is that it creates so much extra work.

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Have your say... but only if you've been asked
By Ross Clark
Tony Hancock’s career faded as he ran out of his trademark material appealing to radio listeners’ sense of the absurd. A pity for him that he was 40 years too early for the government’s latest consultation exercise – on consultation exercises.

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Improving energy efficiency – rhetoric or reality?
By Ross Clark
Is there anything the government thinks we are capable of doing without its most generous help? I fear not.

BUSINESS NEWS >>

ASOS cashes in on the young pound

By Charlotte Burn-Callander - November 18, 2008 3:49pm GMT

On-line fashion retailer ASOS reported an impressive 68 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £4.1m. Bucking the downward trend on the high street, its sales in the first half of the year have more than doubled to £67.5m.

Stelios's wrangle with directors continues

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - November 18, 2008 11:47am GMT

Stelios' row with the EasyJet board has yielded new headlines. In the wake of arguments over the future of the company, the millionaire founder has refused to sign off the firm's accounts.

Laying the bait: How to hook customers

By Kate Pritchard - November 18, 2008 10:05am GMT

Darren Tilley knows a thing or two about customer service. The founder of £8m-turnover chauffeured transport firm Driven Worldwide hasn’t lost a single client in the past few years.

Toni & Guy makes big bucks with franchising model

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - November 17, 2008 5:21pm GMT

“McDonalds was the first franchise on the high street. We were the second,” says founder Toni Mascolo.

Stelios fights for control of EasyJet

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - November 17, 2008 2:38pm GMT

The entrepreneur behind the Easy brand uses strong-arm tactics to regain control of the airline when faced with opposition from the board.

Brochures on Saving and investing

BUSINESS COMMENT >>

Global Entrepreneurship Week begins...

By Matthew Rock - November 17, 2008 9:50am GMT

And, boy, do we need it...

Hold onto your sides: it's the Friday funnies

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - November 14, 2008 3:44pm GMT

Take five and have a little chuckle at the best business humour around.

The entrepreneur's Shakespeare

By Kate Pritchard - November 14, 2008 3:09pm GMT

We're happy for you to vent your grumbles and groans about the economic downturn on our website. So when Nick Redford, managing director of recording studio Unit58, sent us a poem about the credit crunch, we couldn’t resist sharing it with the rest of you.

Can you bottle entrepreneurial spirit?

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - November 13, 2008 3:39pm GMT

The scientists say we can. But who wants to pop “risk pills”?

The Last Millionaire explodes onto our screens

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - November 13, 2008 12:16pm GMT

It’s a familiar format: a gaggle of businesspeople are thrown together to meet a series of challenges. But the entrepreneurs on this show have already made their millions. They’re being forced to start from scratch with no money and no help in unfamiliar territory. RB’s already hooked.

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