Weekend points
Two things of note in the weekend papers.First, in an article about the decline of M&S (incidentally it's a relative decline, M&S's sales per square foot are still double their nearest competitor) a City retail experts notes that:
M&S gives only 'rough design ideas' to its suppliers; they do everything else. He believes it needs to give them exact specifications and to control the process much more closely
Now isn't this exactly what Gordon Brown has been doing with the NHS? And don't we always hear from the Right that the NHS should be run more like private companies, because 'you don't have to wait to buy things on the high street'?
Second, Nick Cohen -- the new favourite of Peter Cuthbertson -- declares that this is a crucial week for American democracy. He notes
There is a possibility that a majority of the judges on the Supreme Court will this week say what the Prime Minister should have said and declare that Guantanamo can't continue as it is. The leak to the Guardian last week of a belated appeal from Blair to Bush to release the four remaining British detainees suggests that Whitehall suspects that the court will do that.
If it doesn't, of course, you can give up on American democracy
posted by Matthew @ 6/28/2004 08:40:00 AM
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