Owners of small businesses should use next week’s European elections to register a protest over the Government’s failure to crack down on late payment

Owners of small businesses should use next week’s European elections to register a protest over the Government’s failure to crack down on late payment of debt, the two opposition parties urged yesterday. One shows new local programming; the other concentrates on three ITV network favourites – Poirot, Maigret and Morse.. Individual investors, scared out of the market by the volatility of the past six years, have turned to mutual funds, which, like Fidelity Investments, are creating their own internal stock markets. As it turned out, wanting a bit more might not have been such a bad thing. But rap- wise, there’s nothing much new here; and the ethical and political dimension is entirely absent from his work.

He said this would ‘highlight the economic absurdity of large-scale commercial plutonium production’ and ’show that this ‘economic folly is made national security insanity because of the dangers of plutonium diversion and theft at the hands of terrorists and rogue states’.British Nuclear Fuels said, in a written statement to the Independent on Sunday: ‘Britain is not negotiating to supply South Korea with plutonium in any form.’But a spokeswoman later admitted that the company and South Korea were discussing ‘fuel supply services for their reactors and waste management services, which may include reprocessing’. We have this strange national myth, rooted in a brief period of little more than a century of our history, that we are good at making things, whereas actually we were never particularly good at it – we just started early. But it’s a distinctive young voice (not yet 30), one that knows its own mind and worth.A confident dramatist, too, a skilled manipulator of narrative tension and release: the climactic chorus of Act 2, the ugly, collective voice of derision, is like the lid coming off a pressure-cooker. ‘They are both concerned about ‘the bloody amateurs’, and want a much more co- ordinated, cohesive and professional approach in the response to international disasters.’Core courses in applied engineering, resource management and other technological aspects of disaster response will be supplemented by regular guest lectures from those working at the harsh end of disaster relief. Such a force would be paid for in the normal way, through assessed contributions from member states with half the bill being paid by the five permanent members of the council: the US, Britain, France, Russia and China.A precedent for such a regional peacekeeping force already exists in Liberia where Nigeria has organised an operation using troops from West African countries. A rebel ‘garden party’ committee is being mooted to throw open the gates of the squares in a Tree-In (counting, stroking, worshipping, etc) during Carnival at the end of August.Joe Strummer, late of The Clash, is being approached to chair, while no doubt Bel Mooney, who lives in self-denying poverty just off Ladbroke Square, will raise her now famous yurt in the name of freedom.’I can’t wait,’ enthused a former girlfriend of Mick Jagger ‘Everyone likes a party .’Well, up to a Pointy-Head.(Photograph omitted). It will not, naturally, be applied to the real, ‘thinking’ mandarins.Nor is the language on market testing nearly as fierce as it was in the original 1991 White Paper, which insisted that ‘few activities cannot (or should not) be subject to market testing, and therefore managers will be required to justify their decision not to market- test activities’.

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