The gulf between small people and little guys
Oh dear. Language can be so tricky.
Carl-Henric Svanberg, the BP chairman, whipped up yet more trouble for the company following his meeting with President Obama on Wednesday, by saying the following: Read more
An eruption of blame over BP’s oil disaster
It did not take long for the strained unity of BP, Transocean and Halliburton to break down as oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico.
I wrote in my column last week that BP did not appear to have been being obviously reckless in the way it used contractors to drill for oil before the disaster: Read more
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John Gapper is an associate editor and the chief business commentator of the FT.
He has worked for the FT since 1987, covering labour relations, banking and the media. He is co-author, with Nicholas Denton, of 'All That Glitters', an account of the collapse of Barings in 1995.
Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor, comment and analysis editor, New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
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