Top Fifty Tweeters
I love twitter. A friend pointed out to me last week that he catches me checking tweets more often than texts. He’s probably right; it is playing an increasingly important role in the news gathering process for an ever-growing number of people. The fifty users below are examples of the micro-blogging network at its best. ...
Can Sir Fred Goodwin possibly lose anything else? Well, yes- his title.
Four years ago, he became the symbol of the banking crisis that we are still coping with today. Many claimed it was Sir Fred Goodwin’s aggressive strategy for corporate expansion during his time as Chief Executive at the Royal Bank of Scotland that brought down the bank and caused colossal damage to its industry. The...
Time to break the bankers’ bonuses?
It was never going to go down well, was it? Royal Bank of Scotland Chief Executive Stephen Hester has been lined up with a bonus of £963,000. After RBS was part-nationalised by the Labour government in 2008, the taxpayer took an 82% stake in the company. With so many people feeling the squeeze, such a move was bound...
The question is answered; what will the question be?
To think people accuse card companies of taking advantage of specific dates by jazzing them up and raking in the profits. Tonight, as Scotland celebrates Burns Night and patriotism is high, its people are mulling over proposals from its First Minister.
