Quantcast
Channel: business – Westminster Confidential
Browsing all 49 articles
Browse latest View live

Premier Bin: Is the minimum wage hotel chain run by Whitbread millionaires...

CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM I have stayed in a number of Premier Inns on holiday and the atmosphere has always been cheap and cheerful with an emphasis on a good night’s sleep and a good value...

View Article



Why these liars, cheats and fraudsters should be prosecuted for ripping off...

CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM This month one of the most devastating reports into a privatisation rip off was published by the Financial Reporting Council, which regulates chartered accountants. It...

View Article

Boycott this mean Treasury National Savings ISA account that is slashing...

CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM Over a month ago bank rate rose for only the second time in a decade – promising a bit more money for people who have savings and are seeing their money eroded by inflation....

View Article

MPs slam complacent equality watchdog and the government over “rife ” ageist...

CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM A damning report from the  Commons women and equalities committee has attacked the country’s equality watchdog and ministers for their complacent attitude in tackling age...

View Article

Last of the Summer Time: The next new EU row for Theresa May

CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM As the UK and the EU come to a deal on the withdrawal of the country from the EU the practicalities of the arrangement are about to rebound on Theresa May. The European...

View Article


Britain’s nuclear future: Doomed by its own contractors and skill shortages

CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM Britain’s  £70 billion nuclear programme is in serious trouble. Contractors have either started or are threatening to pull out of four planned nuclear power stations. There...

View Article

Vietnam: The scooter boys in a booming Communist state with a widening wealth...

Imagine being dropped in the centre of a huge, unfamiliar vibrant place like Ho Chi Minh City without any local currency or understanding the language. The first thing you might do is look for an ATM...

View Article

On Byline Times: MPs slam secrecy and cover up over Brexit management...

Whitehall is condemned yesterday by a powerful all party committee of MPs for being over secretive over the award of nearly £100m of management consultants contracts to handle Brexit. The Commons...

View Article


On Byline Times: Cabinet Office propriety probe into Boris Johnson’s Hedge...

Given the enormous interest into Johnson’s determination to leave the EU on October 31, there are questions about the huge hedge fund and City trader financial backing for his leadership campaign this...

View Article


On Byline Times: Government and Opposition clash over ” tinfoil hat” tale on...

The row over whether hedge fund and City trader backers of Boris Johnson could make hundreds of millions of pounds by speculating on a No Deal Brexit reached Parliament today when the government was...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On Byline Times: Brexit chaos leads to big drop in EU science money as...

Nanotechnology helping the food industry. Pic credit: European Commission The Royal Society has issued a dire warning that the UK is already suffering a big drop in science funding from the EU because...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On Byline Times: Protesters and objectors frustrate growth of fracking –...

One of the few fracking sites in the UK in Lancashire. Pic credit: BBC Lancashire Very informative report from the National Audit Office out today on the state of fracking and how it is being held...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On Byline Times: Forensic examination by Lords reveals flaws in Liz Truss’s ”...

Liz Truss, international trade secretary. Pic credit:BBC Claims by Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, that the UK’s biggest independent trade deal with Korea hit the ” gold standard” are...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On Byline Times: UK to impose trade sanctions on Trump tomorrow to meet EU...

Pic credit: BBC While nearly all the attention is being given to the Covid 19 crisis tomorrow the UK will have to impose a limited number of trade sanctions on the Trump administration under a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On Byline Times: The £8m contact tracing app contracts for Covid-19 and plans...

NHS contact tracing app being trialed in the Isle of Wight Pic Credit: Linked In I have just had a forensic look at the contracts awarded for the controversial Covid-19 contact tracing app which is...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Cummings cunning Whitehall revolution

Next month Boris Johnson is expected to have a Cabinet reshuffle. This will be his chance to mould his government’s image for the rest of the Parliament. If he takes the advice of his chief of staff...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Revealed: How “Failing Grayling” derailed transport billionaires Richard...

Ex transport secretary Chris Grayling Pic credit:BBC Chris Grayling – who tomorrow is expected to become chair of Parliament’s intelligence and security committee – is a byword for wasting public...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

From hero to zero and fighting back: How celeb chef Mark Hix revived his fish...

Celebrity chef Mark Hix The hospitality industry has suffered huge damage because of the Covid 19 pandemic. Not only are chains like Pizza Express , Frankie and Benny’s closing branches but even more...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Top international experts join the People’s Tribunal campaign to end...

Aim is to write the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women [CEDAW] into UK domestic law. Meghan Campbell: Pic credit Birmingham University Nearly 40 years ago Margaret...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The scary chaotic privatised Covid-19 national survey and me

The ONS survey promises they could not fulfill Inside story of how the government can’t even organise a Covid- 19 survey let alone sort out the pandemic Much has been said of the government’s...

View Article
Browsing all 49 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images