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Bill Gleeson: Beware of the risk posed by rising inflation

THE coming days will see a growing clamour as the nation’s business lobbyists demand a cut in interest rates when the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee meets next week. Read

Bill Gleeson: Optimism not dented by the gloom around

IMAGINE the circumstances that would lead the Bank of England to cut interest rates by 0.75%. Last time it met, our MPC balked at the idea of a quarter-point drop. Read

Bill Gleeson: The age of the skyscraper has finally ended

SHOPPING channel QVC needs a new head office and broadcasting base. Read

Bill Gleeson: Gill’s second choice - but he’s still first rate

LIVERPOOL Vision chief executive Jim Gill now knows how Steve McClaren must have felt when he was appointed England manager. Read

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Bill Gleeson: Culture Year is a great chance to bury old image

LIVERPOOL’S Capital of Culture celebrations will kick off next week with the formal opening ceremony. Read

Bill Gleeson: Great news from Ford – but why now?

IT’S great news that Ford plans to produce a second Land Rover model at Halewood. Read

Bill Gleeson: Committees with no teeth and little power

I HAVE long suspected that Parliamentary select committees are toothless talking shops. Read

BILL GLEESON: Downing plan could prove a tower too far

GEORGE DOWNING thinks big. He has already invested more than £60m in The Capital, the sandy-coloured building that everybody knows as the Royal & SunAlliance building. Read

Bill Gleeson: And to think, it had been going so very well . . .

PICTURE the scene in Michael King’s household. Read

Bill Gleeson; Directors need to look at their own ambitions

HOW does the trading arm of a charity lose £150,000? That’s what happened to Weston Spirit Trading, the Liverpool-based trading arm of the youth work charity established by Falklands War veteran Simon Weston. Read

Bill Gleeson: Inflation may be rising from out of its grave

THE economy is in a double bind. On the one hand, Britain’s economic managers are struggling to prevent the credit crunch from plunging the country into recession. Read

Bill Gleeson: So why could we not hang on to Rolls Royce?

THE news about the loss to the region of Rolls Royce’s Netherton plant is different from all those other stories we too frequently hear about manufacturing migrating from these shores. Read

Bill Gleeson: Sauce for goose not always sauce for the gander

I DON’T often find myself in agree-ment with the TUC. Most of what they have to say is predictable left-wing, knee-jerk rubbish. Executive pay, however, is an exception. Read

Bill Gleeson: People wrong to doubt the aims of EasyJet

EASYJET celebrated a big landmark in its history this week. The no-frills airline has now been operating flights from Liverpool John Lennon Airport for 10 years. Read

Bill Gleeson: Business should not pay for the daft tram plan

LABOUR’S fortunes have moved in exactly the opposite direction to those of England’s rugby team during the past few weeks. Read

Trading Gossip

IT WAS a night when men (and no doubt a few women) revelled and quaffed and then quaffed some more – with some hilarious consequences. Read

Airbus delight at massive order

THERE is more good news for troubled commercial aircraft maker Airbus and its aerospace employees in Broughton, near Chester, as another customer steps forward to give its two flagship jets a huge boost. Read

Economic damage may not be a bad as feared

MANY investors may have been scratching their heads at the contrast between credit markets near nervous breakdown mode, while equity markets continue to recover from the lows of mid-August. Read

Dispute with the stamp of failure

CALL me old-fashioned, but won't it be a joy today to be able to buy a stamp, stick it on an envelope and drop them both into a post box in the faint hope that it may reach its destination within a week or so? Read