Government Spending - Interactive Guide to Where It Goes

Business students looking at where the UK government places its spending will find this interactive guide from the Guardian a great support.

Nationalisation Again - National Express Taken into Public Ownership

First it was the banks.  Now it is strategic transport businesses.  The government has this morning nationalised the East Coast raiway line, previously operated by National Express.

Local councils may takeover struggling post offices

A really interesting development in the story of the struggling UK post office network today. It seems that local councils may finance and control some of the post offices that Royal Mail has earmarked for closure due to sustained losses.