The newspaper industry was already pressing through changes. The recession has simply accelerated the process. The figures make grim reading. In the past five years, some of the countries biggest and most established regional newspapers have seen the...
As world leaders discussed the conflict in Afghanistan, demonstrators fought the police. The center of Strasbourg is a fortress, but it didn't stop property from being smashed and set alight. As you can see, several hundred protesters have gathered h...
Prince Charles on royal duty at Buckingham Palace, safe in the knowledge that even if the rules on the succession and royal marriage are dragged into the 21st century, hell still get to be king. Princes William and Harry too are safe in the pecking o...
Everyones got an opinion about how bad the global recession will be and what to do about it. Just as Gordon Brown has been trying to get European leaders to pump more money into their economies, respected forecasters, the Ernst and Young ITEM Club ar...
When they met earlier this month, both President Obama and Gordon Brown looked forward to coordinated international action to boost the global economy. One of the things that Prime Minister Brown and I talked about is how can we coordinate so that al...
This is where money is made and lost. But with uncertainty about the stability of America's largest banks and mounting worries about the state of General Motors, today was all about loss. For the first time, General Motors has admitted their substant...
These are momentous times and now a banking failure that has contaminated the whole economy. We are being lashed by an economic hurricane, people's savings, mortgages and jobs at risk. It may be called a party policy forum, but it seems there's no di...
The gleaming surface betrays the fact that like the rest of the world, Hollywood is experiencing an economic slump. In the build-up to the Oscars, LA is putting on its habitual show of shimmering decadence. But beneath the surface, times are harder t...
There is a chill wind blowing through the campus of Keele university these days and it's nothing to do with the weather. Students fear the recession and the downturn in graduate recruitment, may mean their studies lead them nowhere, but a dole queue....
So who knew what, when and where do we point the finger of blame? The paper trail is working its way up Downing Street as allegations threatened to become corroborations. The charge is that Gordon Brown as chancellor knew that HBOS was taking risks a...
