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Richard Northedge is a London-based business journalist. He was deputy City editor of The Daily Telegraph and Editor of Sunday Business and now writes for The Times, Wall Street Journal and The Spectator.- more about Richard Northedge »
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- The Decline of the U.K. Auto Industry
- Though it was a blow to national pride, the U.K. has learned to live without a British-owned motor industry. The U.S. could probably do the same. Protecting the National Psyche Jaguar was acquired by...
- Articles 2009-05-13
- G20 Crowd Could Be Too Inclusive
- The G20 is hailed as the new premier forum for international economic co-operation: the G7 has served its time. But while bringing 20 countries to the global table may look democratic, is it an efficient way to decide anything? The logistics of 20 prime ministers or presidents,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- NHS: Too Big to Manage?
- The financial crisis gave us to the concept of organisations too big to fail, but are their also organisations too big to run? With 1.5m staff and a £100bn annual budget, is the National Health Service literally unmanageable? The NHS tops ministerial problem piles but constant re-organisations...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Universities Need a Degree of Commercial Reality
- If government is to spend less on higher education, should business foot the bill? And should commerce thus have a say in what universities do? Business benefits from good graduates but it also pays for this supply of talent by offering high wages. The graduates also thus...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- What if... Lloyds Hadn't Snapped Up HBOS?
- If Lehman Brothers had been rescued rather than allowed to collapse in September 2008, the financial crisis would have developed much less dramatically. But the crisis is full of what-ifs. What if, for instance, Barclays had not bid for ABN Amro in March 2007? Would Royal Bank...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- What's So Good About Long-Term Investors?
- Did ministers ask what companies think before declaring that good investors are long-term shareholders? Ideas have been floated to give long-term shareholders more votes or to allow investors to buy more voting power, but perhaps it is the short-term shareholders who buy and sell that should be rewarded? Corporations need...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Don't Price People Out of a Job
- As well as worrying about maximum pay in boardrooms, ministers should look at the minimum wages on the shop floor. If government wants more young people to find jobs it must consider lowering the cost of employing them.  Britain has nearly a million people aged under 25...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Trade Creditors Deserve a Voice in Insolvencies
- Businesses fail during recessions. That's inevitable. But creditors deserve protection from firms that walk away from debts and immediately restart. There are now two alternatives to a conventional winding up -- the creditors' voluntary arrangement or CVA and the pre-packed administration. Both allow unprofitable parts of the...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Where are Tomorrow's Economists?
- Nigel Lawson, when he was chancellor of the exchequer, complained about "teenage scribblers" - the City yuppies who commented on the economy. Where are tomorrow's teenage scribblers? You might think the last thing Britain needs is more economists, but a study of the summer's exam results shows...
- Blog posts 2009-09-07
- How Accountants Messed Up Directors' Summer Holidays
- Boardrooms used to close down for summer while the accountants got the results ready for directors to announce when they returned after the August Bank Holiday. The accountants have retaliated, however, becoming so efficient that boards this year had to break their vacation to issue figures when everyone else is...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- No Bonus Tax, Let the Market Decide
- Rather that propose taxes on transactions to bring down bankers' bonuses, Britain's financial regulator, Lord Turner, should ask why competition is not forcing down City fees and pay. The free market is not working in the Square Mile. There is no shortage of investment banks -- unlike...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Grad-Free BT Creates Its Own Brain Drain
- "Want to kick-start your career with a fast-developing global company," asks a page of BT's website, apparently unaware BT has suspended its graduate recruitment programme. Students should prepare for a kick in the teeth rather than a kick-start. Does BT have a duty...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Mervyn King: A Combative Chairman
- Does a chairman lose his authority if his board votes against him? Bank of England governor Mervyn King may be asking that after fellow members of the monetary policy committee blocked his bid to increase the quantitative easing programme by £75bn. In a public company, opposition to the chairman might...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- A Cap on High Pay is a Cheap Vote Winner
- Curbing pay is the new battleground of Britain's politicians. Threats by Conservative shadow chancellor George Osborne to block big bonuses for bankers have been echoed by the Liberal economic spokesman Vince Cable and bettered by Labour's Treasury ministers. It is an unhealthy consensus. Undoubtedly many bankers received...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- It's Open Season for Chairman, CEO Hunt
- To lose one member of the C-suite may be a misfortune but to lose two looks like carelessness. Yet ITV has done it, simultaneously losing both chairman and chief executive. It should be a reminder to other companies of the importance of succession planning. Michael Grade has...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Can a Company Sin?
- If a company is only as good as its people, should it be punished for the bad things its employees do? If some staff at BAE Systems broke the rules, why not make them pay the penalty rather than the corporation? Companies are legal entities, but can...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- When is a Bonus Not a Reward?
- When bonuses become a matter of course, they are no longer a reward but a regular part of your pay-packet, says Richard Northedge. What's so special about that? by Richard Northedge
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- BA-Iberia: a Marriage of Convenience
- BA and Iberia are hardly a match made in heaven, but with all the other partners pairing off, BA was beginning the look like the tiny wallflower. by Richard Northedge
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Cadbury: It's Not Really Up to the Board
- A hostile bid is not a personal attack, and boards that scramble to put up a defence aren't doing their shareholders any favours. by Richard Northedge
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- Bank Break Ups are Bad for Customers
- The government's playing Goldilocks when it comes to big business break-ups. Meanwhile, it's the customer that suffers. by Richard Northedge
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
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