There are now a whopping 100 UK trade union related blogs in the TIGMOO.co.uk blog directory, so I thought I’d do a little analysis of them, and see what it tells us about the state of union blogging. It’s niche… There’s a long tail working here (even though we’re several stops into Zone 6 of the UK

No not Policy Exchange but linked to that! The Centre For Cities is a think tank spun out from the IPPR. They operate in a niche - policy on cities in terms of governance and regeneration of cities. Its a niche but a very important one in terms of improving the performance of the UK and solving a lot of our most pressing social problems. They are also very good at it. They enjoy a very strong medi...

It was a publishing sensation, but was he right? Chris Anderson's book The Long Tail argued that the coming years would be the era of the niche product, rather than the blockbuster. Now a new paper by Anita Elberse in...

I pick up the two cartoons above from the Socialist Worker Website. They tell two important tale about capitalism and the fat cats.

Cartoons from The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday on the 2010 general election.

The news that Woolworths and MFI have gone into administration was bad news but hardly a surprise. Woolworths had struggled to either get critical mass or establish itself in a niche and as the famous business adage goes "get big, get niche or get out". The company had been struggling for some time and as the market tightened they were always likely to be hit first and hardest. Clearly my

The papers said they wanted to show their commitment to freedom of speech after the arrest of three people accused of plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard, one of the artists who drew the cartoons.

MEPs are voting later today on whether to abolish the UK's derogation on the Working Time Directive that allows workers to choose whether or not they want to work more than 40 hours per week. The EU is a socialist behemoth and naturally supports abolishing the rights of workers to decide how many hours they work but in the real world businesses and workers are worried. For some people, workin...

Apparently, we should never stop working. We should never retire, and never enjoy the fruits of our labour. Instead, we should just work, work, and work - then use equity release schemes to raise money from our homes to pay for care. As it is, we work for at least 40 years before retiring. With the

This week I am working from our offices at the High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa – job shadowing. I am working with Russ Dixon and his team. Just one day in the Pretoria office gives you an idea of just how hard these guys work. The amount of work they do and the number of programmes they whizz through in a day make you realise just how much work we in Harare would be able to do if we we...