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Editor's comment: Should we care that M&S could fall into Qatari hands?
A Qatari fund is reportedly planning an £8bn bid for M&S. Should foreign takeovers of UK firms be welcomed or worried about?
London’s big issues: Jobs, banking and regeneration to take centre stage at conference
Get ready London, for the London Policy Conference is almost upon us.
New era of pensions arrives
Auto-enrolment will be compulsory for all firms. Here’s what you need to know
Infographic of the week: Frightening insurance fraud figures
Insurance fraud is on the rise, let this infographic show you the big picture
Drugs and dotcoms: How the legal highs industry exploded online
Public outrage over “research chemicals” is at a peak. We meet the people behind the websites selling them
SME Business regulation advice: archive
Expert eye: Wayne Rooney naughty tweets for Nike just got banned
Nike becomes the first UK company to have a Twitter campaign banned
Charles Orton-Jones: Why Beecroft is right and Cable must be overruled
I am depressed today. You should be too.
Cut red tape to help SMEs, says former Dragons' Den star
Former Dragons’ Den star James Caan has called on the government to stop piling unnecessary rules and regulations on small businesses so they can help the economy grow.
David de Ferrars : Any more Ponzi's out there?
As sentencing is handed down to Ponzi mastermind Kautilya Nandan Pruthi, lawyer David de Ferrars shares his thoughts
Six of the worst Ponzi schemes in history
Ponzi schemes have hit the headlines again twice this week as an American business man is convicted of conning investors out of £4.5bn and two more British men have been convicted in the con masterminded by Kautilya Pruthi. We take a look through the annals and recall some of the biggest Ponzis of all time
Are boardroom quotas for women patronising or positive?
Do women need positive discrimination to reach the top?
Five whopping great corporate fines - and the scandals that incurred them
As PricewaterhouseCoopers gets fined £1.4m, we look back at some of the most shocking and expensive misdemeanours in business history
How red tape nearly spoiled chef Peter Gordon's Kopapa-party
Just over a year after the doors to Peter Gordon’s newest London restaurant opened, Gordon and his business partner Adam Wills tell us how it almost didn’t happen.
Charles Orton-Jones: Why the USSR lost the Cold WarVideo
On the 20th anniversary of the demise of the Soviet Union, our editor-at-large explains why the socialist economies of the Iron Curtain were destined to fail
FSA fines: the 5 biggest ever
HSBC is the latest to get its knuckles rapped for mis-selling, we take a look at the five biggest fines slapped on by the Financial Services Authority
Rogue Traders: the worst ever
As police in London collar a man, Kweku Adoboli, in connection with alleged $2bn in maverick trading losses at UBS, we take a look back at some of the most catastrophic rogue traders in recent history…
Hand in the cookie jar
European regulation on the use of website cookies threatens the commercial arm of the internet
