we start with a battle in the skies. they say all s fair in love and war but should that extend to pandemics too? that s the question at the heart of a legal dispute brought to the eu s general court today. governments came to the rescue of embattled airlines when it became clear that planes would remain grounded in order to do so, normal rules around state aid were loosened. a scheme in france was created to allow national airlines to defer taxes. rya nair says thats unfair. does it have a point? let s put that question to the expert. professor steven peers at the school of law, university of essex. what do you think about this? does ryanair have a point? in normal times they might have a point but of course these are not normal times and if this is the first test in the eu because of the special rules that were drawn up to allow more companies to be bailed out because of the coronavirus. it is a bigger he should not only for our industry but for other industries as well bec
the prime minister, rishi sunak, said there would be no new borrowing to fund the rises. instead, they will come from what he called efficiencies from existing budgets. here s how mr sunak made the announcement, a little earlier: ican i can confirm today that we are accepting the headline recommendations made by the union body in full. but we are not making this by doing tax rises. it would not be right to include tax rises for everyone to pay for some to be paid more, physically when household budgets are so tight. nor would it be right to pay for it by more boring because high borrowing just makes inflation worse. instead, because we have a fixed pot of money to spend from, that means government departments have had to find efficiencies and savings elsewhere, in order to prioritise paying public sector workers more. there is a clear message here. there are always choices. budgets are not infinite. when some ask for higher pay, that will always create pressures elsewhere,
technological tidal wave. so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just got your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were, in 1990, a disconnected device. it was a brick, right, inside your house, that let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was, essentially, a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we are still islands, and we are still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985, and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? well, i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple