Articles for April 2007The council that gave people what they wantedSun, 22nd Apr 2007PERMANENTLY CAST in the long shadow of Whitehall, local government has long been the poor relation of politics - the purveyor of bins, parking tickets and Asbos as opposed to high strategy. But, as yet unreflected in dismal voting totals, things are stirr What's so hard about keeping accounts simple?Sun, 15th Apr 2007BY TURNING ITS 2007 annual report into a 454-page, 1.5kg WMD for the postal system, HSBC may have been hoping to bring down the current reporting regime at a stroke. Yet while there is widespread agreement that present rules leave much to be desired, redu |
