At a time of massive value destruction and mounting losses, the proposal looked positively insulting Eventually it was scrapped, but the damage had been done. After that the fiasco of the company’s day long share price suspension followed by a disastrously handled profits warning seemed entirely in character.Mr Mayo’s parting madness was to buy [...]

“I appeal to Germans to behave rationally and not storm the ATMs on 1 January in order to withdraw a year’s supply of money,” he said Let us hope they listen to him.. The European Union has named for the first time the organisations it considers to be involved in terrorism, publishing a list [...]

As the raucous pan-beating protest spread from barrio to barrio, thousands of people entered the Plaza de Mayo square fronting the Government Palace, scene of deadly riots last week Hundreds more gathered outside Congress nearby. “Give us back our money!” people chanted, while others voiced complaints about corruption in government “Out with the thieves!”. [...]

My mother-in-law, an almost exact contemporary of the Queen’s, was quietly annoyed Not with the trifle, but with us. Left to herself she would have eaten her bowlful, carefully sifting the custard with her tongue, expecting to find no more shards and confident that it was likely all to be a lot of bother [...]

We want employers to offer as wide a range of apprenticeships as possible.”Many of the students on the scheme – which will be open to 16 to 25-year-olds – will also carry on working for the firms and organisations at which they have been apprentices.Ministers have been worried about the drop-out rates under the [...]

For decades we have been people who should be hidden, whom our families should be ashamed of.”If you are a woman, then that prejudice is 10 times stronger. You have ‘the mark’, you are marked as useless and an object for abuse and contempt You are the lowest of the low. We are trying [...]