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Matt Johnson: Phenomenal pace of change brings viewers challenge of choice

CADBURY’S Smash TV adverts earned their place in history and marketing text books thanks to their clever take on the human audience partial to a spoonful of mash or Smash. Read

Bill Gleeson: Disabled people don’t choose to be unemployed

POLITICAL parties of both colours have for many years been looking at ways of reducing the number of long-term sick and disability benefit claimants by encouraging recipients to return to work. Read

Viewpoint: Pensions now a real worry

But now that all those 30-somethings are 50-somethings, retirement is not only a much more real prospect, for many it’s also a real worry. Yes the state will provide, but how much and for how much longer? All those big fat pension funds are now the stuff of legend. Read

Matt Johnson: An enterprising idea to keep youngsters off the streets

I HAVE seen an idea recently that I very much like. It’s a bit like an initiative aimed at keeping the young off the streets this summer holiday season. Read

Bill Gleeson: Toffees’ fans get sweet offer, so why argue?

WHY do some Everton fans want to contest the club’s move to Kirkby? To quibble about moving a few miles down the road when Tesco is offering to pay for a big new stadium is a bad case of looking a gifthorse in the mouth. Read

Bill Gleeson: Blame lies with disequilibrium in home sales

IN THIS column three years ago, I suggested that high house prices were socially unsustainable and that the price of housing should become a political “hot potato”. Read

Matt Johnson: Digital divide still rules despite the pace of change

WHEN the development of cable television really started to kick in across the UK, there was some debate about how the huge infrastructure works required to carry the service into millions of homes would be rolled out. Read

Trading gossip

LIVERPOOL city centre may have a more sophisticated air about it these days, but its earthier roots are never too far away. Read

Bill Gleeson: Liverpool plc may yet steal TMP’s thunder

LAST week, Lorraine Rogers went on to BBC Radio Merseyside and insisted reports in Businessweek about the hours she would be working at her new job at The Mersey Partnership were inaccurate. Read

Matt Johnson: Pop stars play on world conscience but anger carbon critics

THE global Live Earth event was not without its critics. A weekend of self-styled "Concerts for a Climate in Crisis" was an ambitious concept, not least because attracting big artistes and even bigger crowds to large venues created its own pretty significant impact on the environment. Read

Viewpoint, by Will Baker

A GOOD reputation is more valuable than money. As I cast my eye over Liverpool’s ever-changing skyline, it’s clear that never has this been more applicable to the building and construction industry. Read

Trading gossip - 4/7/07

Fans of Tranmere Rovers, where Lorraine is, of course, the executive chairman, will no doubt need reassuring that her new role won’t dilute her commitment to the Prenton Park club. Read

Bill Gleeson, Daily Post Business editor

Bill Gleeson: Blair’s golden era can’t claim credit for boom

TONY BLAIR came to power in 1997 on the back of a backlash against the strident right-wing voices within John Major’s cabinet. Read

Viewpoint: by Ciaran McGivern

WITH 50,000 full-time students at Liverpool’s three universities and applications up by 10 to 15% this year, the education sector plays a significant role in driving the residential property market in the city. Read

Matt Johnson: Great white elephant rides again with £350m refit

WHEN it was first mooted that one of the biggest brands in the mobile communications business was interested in "giving" its name to the much-derided Dome in Greenwich, the words "barge" and "pole" sprang to mind. Read

WELL done to the organisers of the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament, who brought the event to a successful conclusion despite monsoon-like conditions for much of the week.

Trading Gossip 20/06/07

WELL done to the organisers of the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament, who brought the event to a successful conclusion despite monsoon-like conditions for much of the week. Read

Take on a challenge in the music capital of Britain

LAST night, The Make Your Mark in Liverpool Team launched a new challenge for young people, designed to inspire, inform and connect them to peers and industry experts. This exciting initiative will help them take their first steps into the music industry, and where better to do this than Liverpool? Read

It’s a storm in a teacup over private equity

TRADE unions last week created a storm of protest when they got wind of the possibility that Ford might sell its Jaguar and Land Rover marques to private equity investors. Read

Bill Gleeson, Daily Post Business editor

Private equity firms waiting if Ford opts to sell

THERE is a very firm belief that Ford wants to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover operations. Read

Trading gossip

IT HAS been a difficult week for Liverpool City Council leader, Warren Bradley, the city’s self-styled “business champion”. Read

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