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Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance

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News Corp: Numbers show Murdoch has enemies

If more than 38,000 write to complain about something it can mean only one thing. Not that there is something wrong, but that someone has organised a campaign. So the response to the government’s consultation on News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB makes no-one any wiser.
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Rangers and Celtic should be selling the TV rights, not buying

Football finances have always defied logic but the union of Glasgow’s top clubs to outbid Sky for the Scottish Premiership television rights takes madness to new levels. Celtic and Rangers are supposed to receive the rights money, not pay it.

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