Mothercare closes after nearly 60 years, with thousands of job losses
Another iconic British shopping brand has ended, 59 years after it was founded. All Mothercare shops in the UK will …
Category Archives: Business
Is Greggs £300 staff bonus actually a donation to the Tory government?
On the face of it, this looked like a pleasant display of solidarity with hard-working staff – but it seems …
140,000 retail jobs lost in worst year for quarter of a century. That’s Tory government for you
So much for the party of business. Guess what I’m going to say? That’s right: 14 million Tories voted to …
Letdown on rail accessibility for disabled people shows the Tories’ are still siding with big business
The Conservatives’ recent election manifesto stated that the UK didn’t need to renationalise the rail network; it just needed to …
Newly-elected Tory MP runs food bank app that charges charities £180 when they use it
This is the great new nation that 14 million people voted for. What a travesty. Newly-elected Tory MP Miriam Cates …
Why are we even discussing this? the CBI really IS scaremongering over Labour’s nationalisation plans
The Confederation of British Industry has started its usual pre-election campaign against the Labour Party – with the usual nonsense …
The Johnson conjunction: Boris’s Brexit drives the pound down so businessman brother Max can clean up
The plausible deniability of this is breathtaking. Here in the UK, Boris Johnson has been pushing the threat of “no …
Capita u-turns on court appeal over claimant death – opening itself to more claims?
Outsourcing giant Capita has dropped an appeal against a court decision ordering it to pay damages to the family of …
‘We’ve been wronged’ says outsourcing firm after death of claimant whose benefits were wrongly stopped
It must be great to be so rich you think you can buy justice. Take government-contract outsourcing firm Capita, that …
Tory donor who supported Johnson bets AGAINST UK firms post-Brexit
What a charmer this Crispin Odey is! After backing Boris Johnson to win the Conservative Party leadership contest, he has …