28 Dec 2007
Roll up roll up! Today's your last chance to enter MT's first ever end-of-year prize quiz on the business highlights of 2007...
23 Nov 2007
Here's a story you don't see every day: apparently in the first half of this year there were more trains running on time than at any point in the last decade. Although before you get too excited, it's worth pointing out that this doesn't include the peak period for the dreaded leaves on the line...
07 Nov 2007
MT has always championed flexible working – if done right, it can lead to a happier, better-motivated and more productive workforce. But the government’s plans to extend this right, announced yesterday in the Queen’s Speech, will have expensive implications for British businesses – so however noble...
25 Oct 2007
The North-South divide is a strange concept. Most of us are probably aware that it exists, but none of us really knows where it is.
15 Oct 2007
Just when private equity might have thought the coast was clearing, news emerges of another massive payout to top executives. And sure enough, the unions are up in arms again.
09 Oct 2007
Who’d be Chancellor of the Exchequer? Alastair Darling put in a robust showing on Tuesday in his first big outing since replacing Gordon Brown, but couldn’t escape opposition taunts that he had pinched most of his best ideas from them.
09 Oct 2007
All eyes will be on Downing Street this afternoon, where Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling is preparing to deliver his first Pre-Budget Report.
04 Oct 2007
On good travel days we talk of ‘Ryanair’, but on bad ones, it’s ‘O’Leary air’. So strong is the cult of Michael O’Leary, with all its angry, foul-mouthed trappings, that few of us stop to reflect on the airline’s founder, Tony Ryan, who died yesterday at the age of 71.
04 Oct 2007
One piece of advice: whether you’re a politician, a businessman or an innocent bystander, never get involved in large scale public infrastructure projects. Not only are they a massive pain, but they never seem to go away. Take Crossrail. Now that the private sector has chipped in 1bn pounds to the project,...
03 Oct 2007
Ferrovial's BAA is back in the news again today. This time it's the Competition Commission slamming the airport operator's record on queues at Heathrow and Gatwick this summer. BAA's PR people have an almighty task, as MT's Behind the Spin shows...