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Salmond, having resigned as first minister, plans to return to Westminster as leader of mischief makers 
from the Scottish National Party

Salmond, having resigned as first minister, plans to return to Westminster as leader of mischief makers 
from the Scottish National Party

It is a moot point whether an individual or the culture which is at fault

Public listed companies burn up investor’ cash and take on limited liability

The empires of history have generally collapsed from overstretch, which led to restive populations on the peripheries, and then to doubts about the wisdom of the project in the home country itself

Academic spat breaks out over what brings about massive change within businesses

So the good checklist is selective ‑ it doesn’t cover mistakes that are rarely made or mistakes that don’t matter

Brilliant minds have changed the industry beyond recognition but not for better

Dynamic cities come about as much through happenstance as urban planning

The bleeding-heart view of Third World debt imagines subsistence farmers working to pay grotesque salaries to Wall Street financiers.