The Israeli navy has contracted with Germany for a sixth Dolphin-class submarine, to be built at the Howaldtswerke-Deutche Werft AG (HDW) shipyard, in the Baltic city of Kiel. According to the Jerusalem Post: “Christian Schmidt, [Germany’s] secretary of state for defense, told the Post that the contract was signed a few weeks ago and that Germany had agreed to subsidize its cost&hellip...

We’ll never sell those gilts back. The IFS says we have £280bn of new gilts to sell over the next three years to fund the deficit. There is not a hope we’ll add £350 billion of resale of gilts on top of that. The only likelihood is in fact of more QE: over that period

Politicians battle to sell the fairness of their policies

I recently had one of those eye opening web surfing sessions where I find lots of new awesome stuff to explore. I was checking up on the progress of Raspberry Pi, itself a very exciting project to make and sell an ARM-based PC board for $35. They say: We want to see cheap, accessible, programmable computers everywhere; we actively encourage other companies to clone what we’re doing. We w...

            I would like David Cameron, in the privacy of the  meeting to say:         “The UK wishes Eurozone members success with their currency. We will not be providing unhelpful remarks or commentary in public on it. As the Eurozone sells us many goods and we sell into the zone, it is in our

Monsanto has announced it will scrap plans to sell an insect-resistant maize in France, the second move in a week by biotech company to retreat from the genetically modified foods market in Europe. More »

Despite all the anger and outrage you see the BBC whip up on petrol forecourt refining has been in decline in the UK for some time. The reasons are: Poor margins ( yes really ) - remember refiners have to buy their oil before they sell the products.Fear of environmental sanctions - large multinationals are afraid on the levels that career politicians will go to for a ...

Scottish councils could be given the power to sell empty homes as part of measures to cut the number of vacant properties.

Hillary Clinton's recent visit to West Africa highlights that despite the EU's higher spending on development aid, it is unable to sell itself as a champion of human rights or make its voice heard internationally, say Christina Barrios and Paul Nolan of the Madrid-based FRIDE think tank. More »

Ed Miliband the consumer champion, the saviour of the squeezed classes. That, more or less, is how the Labour leader has always sought to sell himself — but this morning the sales pitch goes into overdrive. He has an interview with the Daily Telegraph in which he attacks 'Rip-off Britain'. Not the TV show, mind, but those companies that hammer their customers with extra costs ...