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31 Mar 2009, 7:01 am
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, told MPs the Dunfermline board had been guilty of "disastrous management" and a failure of oversight in allowing it to run up a £24 million loss for 2008. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 2:44 am
@ToryBear told a grateful nation ‘Well done, George’ – the lefty twitters derided Osbore… but a poll did seem to place Vince Cable first, Darling 2nd and Osbore 3rd… hey-ho…who cares what the pundits think? [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 3:58 am
A freedom of information request revealed that 173 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, all vulnerable to traffickers, went missing from Kent council's care homes in 2009.Trust me, Cable tells arms trade, I sold weapons to Latin America – The Times 30/05/11 (subscription only)Vince Cable’s days as a young diplomat were spent as an arms broker helping to sell British-made weapons to one of the world’s most unstable regions. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 12:21 pm
Back in the UK, the Bookseller reports that CILIP (The Chartered Institute of Library Professionals), the Wellcome Trust and the British Library, are among 50 organisations to sign an open letter urging business secretary Vince Cable to implement key reforms to copyright legislation, which they says they fear “could now be subject to delay”. [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 3:22 am
Speeches by Vince Cable MP and Michel Barnier, plus a copy of the slides containing the Populus polling data showing consumer attitudes to intellectual property, can be uneartherd on the Alliance website here. [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 10:58 am
Soon after, Vince Cable (who was the hand the signed the Agreement on behalf of the UK), hailed the Unified Patent Court Agreement as providing a big boost for London who will soon be hosting a branch of the Central Divsion of the Court. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 6:47 am
David Frost CBE Director General of the BCC mentioned the difficulties facing businesses, especially smaller firms, as a result of onerous regulation, cue Vince Cable who dedicated his thirty minute speech to the need to ‘attack massive regulation’. [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 3:00 am
Changing copyright laws won’t solve everything — Helienne Lindvall reports on the “copyleft math” put to use by the UK’s Vince Cable regarding implementing that country’s Hargreaves Report. [read post]
21 May 2012, 11:48 am
While Vince ‘Flip-flop’ Cable is wringing his hands over admirable proposals cooked up by sundry shield munching Tory beserkers to make it easy to sack people at will and in a whim, we are taking close interest as part of our strategic ‘disruptive black psyops operation’ to see if any law firms are daft enough to (a) implement the minimum wage for trainees – pay peanuts, get monkeys and (b) take advantage of this absurd reform of employment law, in the… [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 4:27 am
UK One Step Closer to Binding Say-on-Pay: On to Parliament Yesterday, the UK took another step closer to mandating binding say-on-pay when Business Secretary Vince Cable presented a bill to Parliament mandating binding say-on-pay for consideration. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 8:00 am
Worryingly perhaps, IP is no longer even seen as sufficiently important to form part of her ministerial title.In contrast, the US - in so many ways the technological innovator we dream of being - now has an IP tsar [Victoria Espinel], with a direct link to the president, as well as powerful heads of its copyright and patent/trade mark functions.It may be that Vince Cable’s decision to axe SABIP presages a new more serious approach to IP policy. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 4:49 am
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, has written to Chancellor Alistair Darling, and Lord Turner, demanding an immediate halt to payments from Sir Fred's £703,000-a-year pension. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 12:55 pm
He has appeared on twitter and has a new blog…and he has rather an interesting blog post: If your GC reports to the CFO, your company doesn’t understand what Legal does Listen to the podcast Life as an in-house lawyer and how to get ahead with Tom Kilroy - one I particularly enjoyed doing And… while I am on the topic of General Counsel or in-house lawyers The Bizzle has this most enjoyable post: What lawyers can learn from call centres What today’s… [read post]
25 Dec 2010, 12:15 pm
For a picture of Vince Cable, Business Secretary, dressed up as Santa – please click here. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 3:28 am
Dale Vince of Ecotricity has suggested that green gas can be created from grass. [read post]
18 Jun 2011, 4:22 pm
Responding to a parliamentary committee report on audit concentration, the Government said that companies have moved away from joint audits because they found the single auditor model more efficient and effective.In a letter to the Economic Affairs Committee, Secretary of State Vince Cable also said that creating risk committees and prohibiting the company’s auditor from advising the committee would not open up an opportunity for the Following Four to get into large public… [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 4:12 pm
To use our churn engine to distinguish journalism from churnalism, go to churnalism.com To read the MST report, analysing the press’ plan for reform of press self-regulation go to mediastandardstrust.org Covered Lots Oscar Pistorius is granted bail, 174 articles Moody’s downgrades the UK’s triple A credit rating, 143 articles The horse meat scandal continues, 136 articles Covered Little 20% of British children are living in poverty, says campaign, 8 articles Fifty three are killed… [read post]
9 Oct 2012, 2:07 am
I was heartily amused when I read that the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is supposedly responsible for employment law was yesterday beginning a tour of West Africa. [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 4:04 pm
To use our churn engine to distinguish journalism from churnalism, go to churnalism.com To read the MST report, analysing the press’ plan for reform of press self-regulation go to mediastandardstrust.org Covered Lots Ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne pleads guilty to perverting course of justice and resigns as an MP, 394 articles MPs vote in favour of same-sex marriage bill on second reading, 271 articles Royal Bank of Scotland is fined £400 million for the Libor rate-rigging scandal, 105… [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 3:28 am
Dale Vince of Ecotricity has suggested that green gas can be created from grass. [read post]
