In any case there are enough English coaches about willing and able enough to do the job.”Following Bob Woolmer’s professed lack of interest, it is the name of Jack Birkenshaw, Leicestershire’s respected coach, that has been dropped most. I know other teams have foreign coaches but there’s more to it than that. “In my own [...]

I just had no more to give.” He gave no indication of his plans for the future.SwitzerlandCHRISTIAN GROSS, who mystified most during his spell as manager of Tottenham, has found himself a new job, in charge of Basle. It has not been hard to see that I have not been able to give more than [...]

What skills were used and what generated the most enthusiasm?Completing the session with a personal league table of life’s priorities, McIvor enabled the group to end with individual declarations of where their working lives were heading. In the pursuit of identifying key transferable skills, he set the managers the task of telling the story of [...]

The Daily Record yesterday published photographs of Findlay, one of Scotland’s leading lawyers, apparently standing on a stage and singing what the paper described as anti-Celtic anthems. THE RANGERS vice-chairman, Donald Findlay, has resigned following allegations that he sang sectarian songs at an end-of-season party in Glasgow. “That kind of calmed me a little bit,” [...]

Mrs Bulkeley is dependent upon men all her life and realises her daughter can only attain liberty through economic self-sufficiency. Duncker, whose politics were shaped by Greenham Common, the miners’ strike and by feminism, provides Mrs Bulkeley with a political motive for changing her daughter’s gender.”I often puzzled about his mother,” says Duncker as we [...]

Terry believes most ethical consumers tend to favour one of these strategies, although an individual’s behaviour may show examples of all three.Ethical consumerism is not just confined to a small clique. Rationalisers tend to say things like: “I want to be ethical, but I also want to enjoy life.” They limit their ethical consumption to [...]

Thirty eight per cent would rather leave the union, while 43 per cent would sign up to the euro.Nick Herbert, chief executive of Business for Sterling, said the poll illustrated the dangers of Mr Blair’s campaign to polarise the single currency debate. “Offering the British public a false choice has the grave danger of backfiring,” [...]

This may not sound like much but the fact is that overcapacity in warship building is such these days that Marconi really ought to have been paid to take Govan off the Norwegians’ hands.
The deal presents Marconi with a clean sweep of warship yards in the north, since it already owns Barrow, through VSEL, and [...]

On the contrary, replies the Prime Minister soothingly, the job means nothing less than control of Europe’s foreign policy. In the week that Chris Patten landed the same job in real life, a new movie has hit the screen, and it could hardly be more topical. Not only does it feature corruption, politicking and double-dealing [...]

After a stream of bad news, including a 1,400 cut in headcount, this year, the City marked its shares down 10 per cent yet again yesterday as annual results revealed a whopping pounds 268m restructuring and write-off charge. The group made a net loss of almost pounds 60m on sales down 13 per cent at [...]