Today our economy is stuck in a rut, and it is young people who are bearing the brunt. We are in danger of creating a lost generation, whose first experience of work is unemployment. Our problem is not the lack of talent, ideas or creativity. Our problem is that too...

Small and medium sized businesses are many and varied, making up the majority of the UK's population of 4.8million businesses. In my role I get to meet so many inspiring businesses from the small outfits, like Clippy's who make jam, conserve and jelly that you can buy in...

The failure of the merger between BAE and EADS was inevitable once political differences came to the fore. BAE believed that a newly merged company could have strengthened and broadened their market share, but the insistence of unacceptably high shareholdings from the French and German governments meant the deal was...

There has been an ongoing debate within business about values, responsibility and long-term value creation. In their seminal Harvard Business Review article in January, Harvard academics Michael Porter and Mark Kramer said: "Companies must take the lead in bringing business and society back together. The recognition is there among sophisticated...

"The British economy is indeed recovering...economic growth is now strong" and "it will become stronger" as a result of the work the Government is doing. This was the Business Secretary Vince Cable speaking in the House of Commons on 13 January.

The reality was somewhat different. Two weeks after...