Stephen Hester’s bonus is wrong – but what about Wayne Rooney’s millions? | Ros Coward
Bankers' bonuses are an easy target. Politicians should raise other excesses, such as footballers' pay or lottery winningsPoliticians have been falling over themselves to have the toughest stance on Stephen Hester's £1m bonus from RBS, which he has no...
Tax avoidance and social death: how shame could tame fraud
Everyone is trying to work out how to clamp down on benefit cheats and tax-dodgers. How about some old-fashioned stigma?What a tsunami of high-minded policy chat on the airwaves: dilemmas Simon Hoggart neatly sums up in his cheerfully brutal way. In th...
Football should have acted on warning
Financial trouble at Liverpool and Manchester United might have been avoided if the former FA chairman had not been ignoredThe shredding of Liverpool's dignity and Manchester United's sense of looming crisis both arrived almost exactly two years since ...
Liverpool FC sale – live!
• Liverpool to fight Hicks and Gillet's 'damaging injunction'• Texas court issues restraining order on sale of club • Hicks & Gillett claiming $1.6bn in damages• John W Henry at Liverpool board meeting tonight• Liverpool FC owners Hicks and G...
Liverpool and RBS wait on high-court decision after day of drama
• How the day at the high court unfolded in our blog• Decision on club's sale process due tomorrow• Two new bids become public during hearingLiverpool's fate will be decided by a high- court judge tomorrow morning after a dramatic day of evidence...
Hicks and Gillett play injured parties
The American owners' last throw of the dice is the claim in court that they have the club's best interests at heartAt the end of the day, as they say in football, or of QCs in the wood-panelled courts of The Strand picking over a football club's guts: ...
Even the judge wears red for Liverpool’s slow-burning theatre
Any spectators crammed into court 16 expecting high drama will have left as many have before: baffled by the complexities of chancery proceedingsIn the end perhaps the most spectacularly titillating moment of Liverpool's day in the high court came...
Liverpool’s future ownership set to be decided in high court tomorrow
• How the day at the high court unfolded in our blog• RBS accuses Hicks and Gillett of 'breathtaking arrogance'• Owners claim more time is needed to resolve issuesThe battle over the future ownership of Liverpool is set to be decided tomorrow by ...
Liverpool FC sale: High court hearing live coverage | Steve Busfield
• Court decision expected at 10.30am tomorrow• Peter Lim makes £320m takeover bid• The Gallery: Liverpool's woes (your view!)• Video: supporters outside the high court• Please comment below or email Steve Busfield or on Twitter6.12pm: Thank ...
Liverpool deal plunged into more doubt
• Prospective US owner may walk away • Chief executive asks Hicks and Gillett to allow saleLiverpool's future was thrust into further uncertainty tonight as their prospective new owner said it would walk away if the club is forced into administrati...
Fred Goodwin’s evisceration is so predictable | Kevin McKenna