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Opinion
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Opinion on commercial attachés
June 2008
Commercial Attaché of the Year
InternationalTrade.co.uk has teamed up with The Daily Telegraph to hear about your exporting experiences and, if you use the
resources of a local embassy or consulate, to reward your favourite commercial attaché. We also want to hear about where businesses are being let down by poor service.
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UK tax system needs overhaul
May 2008
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
A radical overhaul of the UK's corporate tax system is needed urgently
if the country is to regain its status as an internationally
competitive location, says a new report
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Buck up, Britain
May 2008
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
If the level of disgruntlement in Britain were a tax, it would be the
fastest rising one, leaving even fuel duty at the starting gate
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Top tip from Mr Grumpy
April 2008
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Ian Campbell admits that, like a growing number of people, he is fed up
with ‘wonky Britain’. However, in hitting out, he also hits the bull
where over-expensive telephone calls are concerned
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Ward's World: South Africa Trip
March 2008
Jan Ward, Corrotherm International
Jottings from our intrepid reporter, Jan Ward shares views on a recent export sales trip to South Africa 8th – 14th March 2008.
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It’s 1984 – 24 years late
January 2008
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Recent revelations about incompetence in Government departments leading
to the loss of colossal amounts of personal data are as horrifying as
they are unsurprising. Ian Campbell looks at the worry of identity
theft.
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Hello, I’m still waiting
November 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
They’re a strange crowd at UKTI. At his coronation, Gordon Brown
promised greater openness and consultation – a programme of ‘change to
build trust in government’.
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The wasteful whirligig
September 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Visits this summer to the US and France, and our recent move from
inner-city London to market-town Lincolnshire, have caused me to ponder the logic of flying bottled water around the world.
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Silliness goes public
August 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Traditionally ‘the silly season’ consists of those months in summer ‘when Parliament
and the Law Courts are not sitting.’ Ian Campbell rails against more Government grabbing of your money.
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Silence over data fears
June 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Confidential data about every British business trading overseas and its directors could be revealed to the US government. Ian Campbell speaks to the ‘expensive’ Government spokesmen with nothing to say.
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Why Brown won’t do
April 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Every commentator appears to know what Gordon Brown will do when, or if, he succeeds Tony Blair at No 10 in May. Ian Campbell has three reasons why he doesn’t think the Chancellor would be a good Prime Minister.
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New Whitehall farce
March 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
It's promotions and ‘jollies’ at UKTI but what’s being done for exporters? Ian Campbell wonders exactly what is going on.
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The British pantomime
February 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Ian Campbell has a boo and a hiss for the UK’s ‘villains’ and a loud cheer for The City, home of natural hero Dick Whittington.
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Let’s hear it for globalisation
January 2007
Ian Campbell OBE, ex-Director General of the Institute of Export
Globalisation is a good thing. That was the consensus amongst the
luminaries on the daïs at the CBI’s annual Interactive Conference.
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