Oct
2008
Articles from 2nd Oct 2008
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No reason why Lenny Henry can't be Othello
Oct 02 2008 | More Columnists
As Lenny Henry points out, he’s black, he’s working class, and he’s from Dudley. But none of those are reasons why you can’t be a Shakespearean actor. Read
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Diane Benussi: A time to take stock of money and happiness
Oct 02 2008 | More Columnists
Law firms, like many other arms of industry, are feeling the effects of the credit crunch: quietly, legal sector companies are making staff redundant. Read
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Chris Upton: Evaporating shares in a delusion
Oct 02 2008 | More Columnists
I’ve never seen myself as a share-holder. When the Iron Lady was privatising the public utilities back in the 1980s – what Harold Macmillan described as “selling the family silver” – I stood superciliously aloof, refusing to listen to anything Sid was telling me. I always thought that Mrs Thatcher’s vision of a share-owning democracy was a piece of self-delusion, since most of those who grabbed the newly released shares from British Gas and BT flogged them as soon as they had doubled in value. Read
