Property prices have surged in recent years around the world...

Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:13 PM EDT (thebusiness.co.uk)

IT was the news all British homeowners should have been dreading: on Tuesday, Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, was forced into a humiliating admission that, for the first time since the Bank was granted its independence a decade ago, it had failed to keep inflati …

prices, rates, house, interst

Turn On, Tune In, Switch Off

Seeded on Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:42 PM EDT (thebusiness.co.uk)

The world has changed beyond recognition since 1966, when Britain's Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, persuaded the BBC to delay an election-night episode of Steptoe and Son, a working class sitcom popular with Labour voters, until after the polls had closed.

technology, tv-guide, web-based-tv-on-demand

Porsche's new empire

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:28 AM EDT (thebusiness.co.uk)

It is being compared to a goldfish trying to swallow a whale: Porsche, the German elite carmaker behind the 911, Boxster and other testosterone-charged marques, launches a takeover bid for Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker.

business, porsche, volkswagen, german-elite-carmaker

Spineless Britain faces its greatest humiliation since the Suez crisis

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:24 AM EDT (thebusiness.co.uk)

AN ancient Persian proverb, much beloved of the ayatollahs in Tehran, urges Iranians to "be lions at home and foxes abroad".

politics, great-britain, foreign-office, un-security-council, royal-marines

Crisis in the Gulf

Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2007 6:17 AM EDT (The Business London UK)

How Britain could put Iran on the back foot. t appears that Iran holds all the cards in the hostage crisis.

britain, iran, crisis, politics, hostage

Hollick's KKR circles Pearson with £7bn LBO

Seeded on Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:58 PM EST (thebusiness.co.uk)

KOHLBERG Kravis Roberts (KKR), the private equity firm fronted in Britain by Clive Hollick, the former media tycoon, has started preliminary work on a £7bn (E10.6bn, $13.7bn) leveraged buyout (LBO) of Pearson, the British media group that owns the Financial Times and Penguin boo …

business, market, share