Month: October 2011

To drag Italy kicking and screaming into the modern age, the EU is politely insisting that there is a reform of the labour laws, ostensibly allowing companies to sack their employees.  Its not that simple, but the essence of the difference between contracts for a determined time and a undetermined time is the great dream…

Matteo Renzi – there’s a name for the future.  Hark back to the heady days of New Labour pre 97, the days when in the death throes of John Major’s, Duncan Smiths and Hagues caring Britain, Tony Blair seemed like a breath of fresh air – someone who could really change the sorry state of…

The owner of Todds shoes took out a full page in the press yesterday, with an open letter to politicians, nearly all of whom are furious at his words, above all the left, who are so out of touch with reality that they assume they are immune from criticism.   Had I enough money I…