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The Big 2007 MT Quiz

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...

Latin lesson for spending gap

In the recent row over private equity and the potential rewards available to City whiz-kids, much was made of the growing gap between rich and poor in the UK – in fact some commentators were gloomily warning that this could lead to social unrest. But according to a new study, we’ve got a long way to...

The week according to MT

Our 60-second guide to the highlights of this week's business news – more gloom about the Rock, enterprise skills come under the microscope, and a plaintive cry from the health and safety profession...

More flexible parenting

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...

CBI finds gloom among manufacturers

The UK manufacturing sector looks to be holding up well despite the recent credit market turmoil – but that hasn’t stopped bosses getting gloomier.

Migration: a moving issue

The government has published its first official study into the effects of the current record-breaking wave of migration. The results? Divisive to say the least. This should be no surprise – when it comes to political hot potatoes, immigration is one spud that’s had a couple of hours in the oven at gas...

Stefan Stern: meet Red Gordon

So: the media pack tells us that Gordon Brown 'fell flat' in Brighton. Yes and no. Sure, there was no standing ovation. But the TUC doesn't go in for that sort of thing.

The future of the workforce?

Is it just us, or do labour practices appear to be stepping back in time? First Philip Green hit the headlines in the Sunday Times for the alleged use of ‘slave labour’ in the manufacture of his Top Shop clothes. Now a Cornish gangmaster has had its licence revoked for leaving its Bulgarian workers...

Davies: the im-balance of payments

Two striking sets of trade figures emerged this week. The UK deficit for May was £3.5bn, a little better than expected, if anything. UK exports held up reasonably well in spite of the rising pound. The Chinese figure was rather different - a surplus on the month of a record £13.4bn. There is absolutely...

Brown to bring the DTI down

There's been a hodload of speculation over what Gordon Brown's imminent move to Number 10 will mean for the much-maligned Department of Trade and Industry. And it looks like MT 's columnist Richard Reeves is soon to be proven right - the department may well be about to break up.

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