The issue of expenses has (to say the least) been in the news over the past week. Claims for moat clearing, house “flipping” and chandelier costs have caused gales of fury.
There’s no doubt that many travel buyers are under increased pressure in the downturn but it seems there is something of a silver lining.
The MPs expenses debacle is a story that keeps on giving and one quote on the BBC website really leapt out at me today.
As the weather in the UK starts to improve, it can often be dispiriting to be stuck inside the office during the working week when the sun is beating down outside.
Shaming your politicians into action is in the news again this morning, as details of further scandals about MPs expenses appear in the UK newspapers.
I’m sure many of us have been wrongly charged on our energy, telephone or tax bills, but perhaps have not even noticed before.
The Office of Fair Trading is considering using long-dormant powers to ban company executives involved in cartels, according to this story in today’s Financial Times.
While the recession and it effects is a recurring theme of the ISM conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, you could be forgiven for thinking that in many respects this is the chance procurement has been waiting for to shine.
There is a cliché in football that if a club chairman gives the manager a “vote of confidence”, you can almost guarantee the very same manager will be packing his personal effects and leaving the club within the next week.
