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Even Amazon and the tech giants could fail to click in a changing market April 21, 2019
If the online retail giant has felt some pressure on profits, what price other, less secure, Silicon Valley firms?The march of Amazon and other US tech giants to world domination can sometimes seem unstoppable. Investors who have bought into the Amazon story have rarely been let down either. Amazon’s share price performance since the millennium […]
Europe’s patience with bumbling Brexit Britain is remarkable April 21, 2019
The UK has not been ‘badly treated’ by the EU. All it is doing is pointing out the consequences of our follyOne vox-pop remark in a Financial Times article – “On the verge of a Brexit breakdown” – illustrated what we Remainers have been up against. Ironically, it came from a former Remainer: “I voted […]
Modest proposals will not make the audit process any more watertight April 21, 2019
Andrew Tyrie’s report recognises the value of more competition, but tinkering at the edges won’t make it happenCompanies go out of business all the time, but big companies should be an exception. They have responsibilities to the communities where they operate. They employ lots of people and perform economically essential tasks. So they need to […]
A zero-emissions UK is a huge task. But the benefits will also be huge April 21, 2019
Major action is needed to achieve zero net emissions by 2050. But it will make Britain’s economy cleaner, smarter and more efficient. We must not delayBritain needs to reach, by no later than 2050, net zero emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This means any greenhouse gases we release must be balanced by […]
Why are airlines so keen on the fantasy of the Mile-High Barbie? | Barbara Ellen April 20, 2019
Flying might still be an adventure but we can do without the retro presentationHow did it come to this – women required to produce a sick note because they’ve been struck down by… unsexiness? It seems that Norwegian Air requires female flight attendants to wear heels, or have a note from the doctor – other […]
Google takes belated action on ‘copycat’ site that tricks unwary users April 20, 2019
An unofficial Dartford crossing website is just one instance of online mimicry that costs users dearA website that tricks unwary drivers into paying three times the cost of using the Dartford crossing has been removed from the top of Google search results, following pressure from the Observer.Drivers crossing the Thames via the Queen Elizabeth II […]
The private frontier: corporate space explorers stand by for a $1tn lift-off April 20, 2019
Trump’s ambitions for US lunar exploration will be a further boost to the billionaires building a new generation of rocketsPresident Donald Trump has struggled with some of his signature policy promises, but now he has set his sights higher: a return to the moon, five decades after humans last set foot there.The White House has […]
The consumers’ champion chasing Mastercard for £14bn April 20, 2019
Ex-financial ombudsman Walter Merricks tells why he took on the case that could now pay each adult in the UK £300When the Consumer Rights Act came into force in 2015, one man was keeping a keen eye on businesses failing to serve their customers properly. So when Mastercard didn’t respond to a ruling from the […]
Tories told to back HS2 rail link or face decades in opposition April 20, 2019
Business leaders in north of England issue warning to party leadership hopefulsTory leadership contenders have been warned that opposing the HS2 line will destroy the party’s prospects in key seats for decades, amid concerns that the project will be targeted in the race to replace Theresa May.Senior figures inside Whitehall, industry and across local government […]
Two centuries after the first proper bookie, betting’s future is no banker | Greg Wood April 20, 2019
The system Harry Ogden invented on Newmarket Heath in the 1790s has endured but the industry it spawned is eating itselfThe world’s first bookmaker, so the story goes, was a man called Harry Ogden. One afternoon in the early 1790s, when organised thoroughbred racing was already almost a century old, Ogden went to Newmarket races […]