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Next Group, the successor company to ICAP, just managed to publicly humiliate itself by spending company funds on political campaigns.
The company has its AGM next Wednesday and disclosed in the notice of meeting that it had spent £25,000 funding five Conservative Party candidates facing Liberal…Read more…
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a few weeks, and only now have time. I think the bonus cap is another issue where it is important that we look at what the industry (and other interested parties like rem consultants) told us would happen, and w…Read more…
I think it’s fair to say that the Beecroft report, prepared by Tory donor Adrian Beecroft, was not universally welcomed in the labour movement.
One of the more controversial elements was the introduction of employment tribunal fees. The intention behi…Read more…
A couple of weeks back I stumbled across something quite interesting from a company called Westbourne Communications. It was a blog post detailing their advice to Uber in the “battle with Black Cab drivers” (this is their exact phrasing).
I thought th…Read more…
Just to clear up the mystery of those donations tagged to the Conservative Party that I blogged about last year, I’ve had the email below from the Electoral Commission. Basically the Tories mucked up their admin –
Dear Mr Powdrill, You contacted…Read more…
Ahh…. Fidelity, the lure of right-wing British politics is just too strong for you isn’t it?
I’ve blogged previously about the latest Fidelity link to the Tories – their involvement with the Leaders Group. According to the Conservative Party’s own we…Read more…
A few years back, I noticed that the phrase “a force for good” was being used with remarkable consistency by people in, or working with, the private equity industry. So I thought I’d do a quick google to see if that was still the case. No real surprise…Read more…
Inter union rivalry has been a negative characteristic of British trade unionism for more than a century. The highly unionised teaching profession is strongly contested by 3 TUC affiliated unions and…Read more…