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Ross Clark

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Ross is a freelance journalist and columnist on The Spectator, The Times and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Great Before, a satire on the anti-globalisation movement, and How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations that are Strangling Britain, published by Harriman House, about the lunacy of red tape.

He has been a regular contributor to Real Business magazine for several years. We like his acerbic, witty style: hope you do, too.

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By Ross Clark
I don’t know about polar bears, but climate change certainly isn’t in danger of driving public sector workers to extinction.

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Why equal pay tribunals are undermining the labour market
By Ross Clark
I never thought I would live to see the day when I felt nostalgia for seventies trade unions, but now I am not so sure.

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Health and Safety madness will kill your business
By Ross Clark
It is gradually dawning on me that the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) may well be nothing more than a large installation of conceptual art.

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Is it worth the tender?
By Ross Clark
There’s only one winner in public procurement.

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Which law would you tear up?
By Ross Clark
Five government pledges that really would make a difference

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Stuck in the middle
By Ross Clark
The firm that was killed by the battle of the quangos

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Watch out for dormice
By Ross Clark
Biodiversity is the new regulatory black.

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Danger at the drycleaners
By Ross Clark
New targets for squeaky clean HSE

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Go on, opt out of work
By Ross Clark
Now you must count your hours at work

BUSINESS NEWS >>

Grass Roots entrepreneur receives an MBE for social responsibility

By Kate Pritchard - July 03, 2008 5:24pm GMT

David Evans set up Herfordshire-based performance improvement firm Grass Roots in the eighties. Today, he turns over a whopping £247m, employs over 1,000 people and has just become one of only three people in the country to receive an MBE for services to CSR.

Foresight invests in Silvigen

By Real Deals & Real Business - July 03, 2008 3:45pm GMT

Silvigen, a supplier of biomass fuels for use in the power industry, will use £1.75m from Foresight to finance the development of a processing plant in Goole, North Humberside.

Countdown to Human Capital Awards

By Catherine Woods - July 03, 2008 3:38pm GMT

At last year’s CBI/Real Business Human Capital Awards, prison administrator Vicky O’Dea was crowned the ‘people’s champion’.

Farmer focuses on versatile local product

By Catherine Woods - July 03, 2008 3:10pm GMT

Farmer Andy Fussel has turned a low-value crop into a product that appeals to those who want to lower their carbon footprint, the health conscious and even Michelin-star chefs.

Nine ways to grow your business through franchising

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 03, 2008 2:28pm GMT

Brian Duckett, MD of Howarth Franchising, gives his top tips on franchising your business.

Brochures on Saving and investing

BUSINESS COMMENT >>

Lee McQueen pulls a sickie

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 02, 2008 2:55pm GMT

First day on the job and Apprentice winner McQueen has been struck down by a flu-like virus.

Look out Boris! Sir Alan for Mayor?!

By Ally Papasodaro - June 27, 2008 4:10pm GMT

Sir Alan Sugar has been mooted as a possible labour candidate for Mayor of London, and the grizzly entrepreneur is up for the challenge.

The world's first Tibetan consumer brand?

By Matthew Rock - June 26, 2008 4:41pm GMT

Bizarre.

Elnaugh Vs. Paphitis. The Dragons are at war

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 26, 2008 2:45pm GMT

When Theo Paphitis suggested all women’s brains “turn to mush” when they get pregnant, fellow Dragon Rachel Elnaugh, entrepreneur and mother-of-five, breathed fire and brimstone.

I’m so excited. And I just can’t hide it.

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 25, 2008 11:09am GMT

Anyone else gearing up to go wild over the new domain name changes? No? Just think of the wit, variety and confusion it will bring to the world wide web.

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