Tony Blair

When communicating internationally in English, you need to be very careful about using management jargon. Carol Scheunemann tests your knowledge of key management terms in Business Spotlight 1/2011. 

Snap out of it Brian Cowen, and snap to it. It’s time to call a snap election. Cowen, the Irish prime minister, has promised to call a general election in the New Year. But many people are calling for a “snap election”.

This week, we look at media comment on Tony Blair’s testimony about his Iraq war decisions. We also look at Barack Obama’s bank-reform proposals as well as comment on Apple’s newest product, the iPad.

The end of the year is approaching and this time round it also marks the end of the first decade of the new millennium. So what were the top five films of the “noughties”?

A former British prime minister is offered $10 million for his memoirs and hires a ghostwriter to do the job. The result is a book-within-a-book that can also be read as an analysis of the use and abuse of power.