A BRIC through your window?

TCR — Something quite amazing happened yesterday. Did you see it? No, it wasn’t the Blur concert. Or the Beckham’s nanny, or Tiger talking about Lefty’s wife.

Yesterday the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China met. They were in Yekaterinburg, of course. [...]

Change management: Why can’t China and the Chinese win with our companies?

LONDON — It’s a funny old world we live in. The Chinese state aluminium giant Chinalco just failed in its quite generous attempt to help Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto out of a massive great hole. And where do we go to see the sense of remorse? Not to this [...]

Government spending and communications

HOME — One of the problems with recessions like the one we are in is that government spending takes place of regular commercial advertisements on TV. Don’t get me wrong, we have reason to love government work. And we hope to do more of it.

But the TV in the UK we are regularly assaulted with:
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Public sector: we’re in their hands now

“It is easier to run a revolution than a government.”
Ferdinand Marcos, 1977

PICCADILLY — I have long said that I hold UK public servants in high regard. I think they are a class apart. People with excellent levels of learning and dedication.

I don’t think they are always right, and I have other opinions about the administration of government, [...]

Time for another Bretton Woods?

ON THE BBC — Stephen Fry is visiting 50 states on TV tonight. He stops by the beautiful old Bretton Woods hotel in New Hampshire.

More that 60 years ago, world leaders got together and sorted out a plan for the world economy. They set up the precursor of the [...]