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Spectator Business - July

Survival strategy: stay lean and focus on the business customer

Matthew Lynn

British Airways Matthew Lynn says Willie Walsh faces sky-high fuel costs and green taxes as well as aggressive competitors and inadequate airports. But the wily Irishman could still emerge as BA’s best leader yet

A surprisingly sunny scenario

Martin Vander Weyer

Martin Vander Weyer finds CBI chief Richard Lambert in an unexpectedly upbeat mood, despite threats to British business from the credit crunch and a dangerous surge in inflation

Are we heading for an autumn of discontent?

Mike Millar

Mike Millar asks if the recent spate of strikes augurs a resurgence in trade union militancy

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Peter Hoskin

Issue 3 of the Spectator Business

We've just uploaded the content from the latest issue of the Spectator Business - you can access it here.

In particular, I'd recommend you read Michael Millar's piece on the resurgance in trade union militancy - "Are we heading for an autumn of discontent?" 

It'd be great to hear your views on this, or on any other articles in the magazine.  Just register them in the relevant comment sections.

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Tim Worstall

Department of Extremely Bad Ideas

Hw did we in fact get to the point where financial illiterates get to propose policy for an entire continent?

Tony Robinson, chief spokesman for the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, said the capitalist system had disgraced itself and must now face much stricter regulation.

"There is a groundswell of opinion building up for action at a European level. Our group wants a ban on all investment funds speculating on food. We support a proper functioning market, but what we have seen in this crisis is a most distasteful morality where decisions are driven...

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Peter Hoskin

Put your questions to George Osborne

Over on Coffee House, we've arranged a Q&A with the shadow chancellor, George Osborne.  Please click here to see more details and to put your questions to him.

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Tim Worstall

Department of Bad Ideas

I wish we did in fact have such a department for bad ideas like this one:
Former students should pay a "graduate tax" for decades after leaving university, according to a former Labour education minister.

The charge should be levied on all graduates to enable more schoolchildren to stay in education beyond the age of 18, it was claimed.

Baroness Blackstone, an education minister between 1997 and 2001, admitted such a move would prove hugely unpopular.

But she insisted that she would be willing to pay such a charge - 40 years after graduating...

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