Margareta Pagano

Margareta Pagano is a former business editor of the Independent on Sunday who now writes columns and business interviews for a range of publications, including the Independent, Independent on Sunday and London Evening Standard.

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Benetton’s ad with the Pope giving an imam a smacker

Alessandro Benetton's kiss of life for youth

After that ad with the Pope giving an imam a smacker, fashion boss tells Margareta Pagano he is speaking up for young jobless

Margareta Pagano: Dr Doom predicts a housing disaster – and he's got history on his side

Midweek View: Prices are at least 20 per cent too high or earnings are 20 per cent too low. We know the answer to that

Margareta Pagano: BAE shows attack is the best method of defence

The proposed tie-up with EADS is a bold move by Britain's military giant in the face of tough competition and cuts in spending in the West

Margareta Pagano: Don't tell anyone, but Britain has an industrial policy

Midweek View: The big test will be how politicians and business people nurture them future gazelles

Margareta Pagano: Blair - The 11th-hour rabbit out of Glasenberg's hat

It looked as if the mega-merger of Glencore and Xstrata was dead in the water, until the former PM was pulled in to sweet-talk the Qataris

Margareta Pagano: Osborne needs to wear killer heels if he wants to stop the booing

Midweek View: If the cost of rates is putting people out of business then keeping them high is simply ludicrous
The campaign leader insists Fairtrade is not a ‘goody two shoes’ charity

Harriet Lamb: Fairtrade moves to next level

Head of the Fairtrade Foundation is signing up big business to her ethical fight

Margareta Pagano: Why won't the banks back small business?

Potentially lucrative opportunities are beckoning would-be exporters but they are frustrated because they cannot take advantage without funding
Herbert Hainer, Adidas chief executive: 'I'm fanatical about sports, about making better shoes and products. It's what drives me day and night'

£100m in sponsorship – and the Olympics have Adidas written all over them

Margareta Pagano meets the German sportswear giant's sport-mad boss as he arrives in London to earn his Games stripes

Why it makes sense for banks to do the splits

The Square Mile: There is a growing recognition that a break-up of banks such as Barclays between retail and investment banking is the way to make things safer

 

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Babies behind bars: A Palestinian fertility doctor has become an unlikely hero by helping women conceive – even though their husbands are in jail

Babies behind bars

A Palestinian fertility doctor has become an unlikely hero by helping women conceive – even though their husbands are in jail
Sonic youth: The high-pitched sound alarm for under 25s

Sonic youth: The high-pitched sound alarm

Is Mosquito, the alarm only under-25s can hear, a blessing or a bane?
The art of living in small spaces: Architects are learning how to make less, more

The art of living in small spaces

Space in cities at a premium so architects are learning how to make less, more...
Special report: The story of Sir Mervyn King's reign at the Bank

The story of Sir Mervyn King's reign at the Bank

After four 'nice' years as Governor of Bank of England, things turned decisively nasty
Zombie nation: Our enduring fascination with a world full of death and destruction

Zombie nation: Our fascination with death and destruction

A new season of shows on Radio 4 is inspired by dark tales of future dystopias. Meanwhile, zombies are marauding in the multiplexes...
Martin Stephen: 'Ofsted says comprehensives are failing the most able but teaching bright children isn't rocket science'

'Teaching bright children isn't rocket science'

It doesn't take a selective system to nurture the best minds, says a former head of St Paul's boys' school.
The retail empires strike back: Can new technology lure us back to the high street?

Can technology lure us back to the high street?

The high street has been bruised and battered by online firms but in-store technology is helping to enliven the retail experience...
The 10 Best new smartphones

The 10 Best new smartphones

Photos, films, music, apps and browsing - the latest mobiles can do it all
Jenson Button: Downbeat driver cannot wait to put season behind him

Jenson Button: Downbeat driver cannot wait to put season behind him

McLaren man admits 'failed gamble' with car has left him pinning hopes on 2014 campaign
James Lawton: Firmer fist will be required to win Champions Trophy final battle with stouter foe

James Lawton

Firmer fist will be required to win Champions Trophy final battle with stouter foe
'To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong': The true effect of the badger cull

The true effect of the badger cull

'To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong'
Theatre review: Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's The Cripple of Inishmaan

First night: The Cripple of Inishmaan

Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's comedy
Girls Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

After 103 years, organisation changes oath to welcome 'all girls, of all faiths, and none'
Steve Tongue: Joe Kinnear was one of the boys and a breath of fresh air... 21 years ago

Steve Tongue

Joe Kinnear was one of the boys and a breath of fresh air... 21 years ago
Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Bradley Wiggins' exit

Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Wiggins' exit

Sky's lead rider says he is in fantastic form for the Tour and happy pecking order debate is over