Sketch: A step-by-step guide to levelling up and making sourdough by Boris Johnson July 15, 2021 We’re levelling up trains, we’re levelling up roads, we’re levelling up shires and towns, counties and cities. We’re levelling up our internet, our schools, and our clean energy infrastructure, Boris Johnson told a crowd yesterday in an attempt to flesh out and actually explain the phrase which has plagued British politics possibly even more than [...]
Gold has had a bad month, but bullish activity could suggest a bottom July 15, 2021 The price of gold has dropped 5 per cent since the end of May. The majority of this decline can be attributed to an increase in interest rates following a recent US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting). As inflation concerns grew, the Fed signalled a more “hawkish” direction with an expected hike in [...]
DEBATE: Should we have ID verification for social media? July 15, 2021 England football stars Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancha were targeted with horrific racist abuse on social media after the team lost to Italy in the Euros 2020 final. The abuse was loudly condemned by all sides of politics, with Boris Johnson slamming the “disgusting” comments. It has prompted another disgusting: should there be [...]
Freedom Day is forcing an unnecessary burden on small businesses by removing all legal Covid rules July 15, 2021 July 19th is coming up fast. So-called “freedom day” is here, unburdening society from the constraints of the last sixteen months and opening up the gates to a wondrous new beginning. Except if you are a small business, that really is not the case at all. The concept of freedom day, is in itself, misleading. Many [...]
So we’re going back to the office – now we need to fix childcare July 14, 2021 As July 19th draws nearer, so too does the end of the official guidance to work from home if you can. The predicted move back to offices (for a few days a week at least) is much anticipated by central London’s shops and restaurants, desperate for footfall to increase. But for London’s working parents it [...]
Boris Johnson has sown dangerous ambiguity over Covid rules with mixed messaging for Freedom Day July 14, 2021 Sixty years ago, Daniel Ellsberg, as a graduate student at Harvard, wrote a now-seminal paper on behavioural economics. The conclusions of “Risk, ambiguity and the Savage axioms” pose a fundamental challenge to the conventional economic model of rational choice, as well as the Government’s current Covid strategy. Despite its seemingly esoteric nature, an experiment carried [...]
A crackdown on music streaming services would harm Britain’s hard-won creative success July 14, 2021 Britain’s music industry is a lynchpin in our culture and national identity, but it is also a huge driver of our economy, a source of digital innovation, and a major asset for our global competitiveness. As the PM has announced the removal of all limits on gatherings indoors and outdoors, we need to play an [...]
Daily Mail: Lord Rothermere’s take-private bid is a bold step forward into the past July 13, 2021 It’s rare that a routine stock market announcement ruffles feathers, but when Daily Mail and General Trust, the parent company behind the Mail newspaper titles, yesterday revealed that Lord Rothermere was weighing up a bid to take the media group private, it succeeded in doing just that. It’s a complicated deal that relies on the [...]
If not now, when? Boris Johnson’s grand reopening must be buttressed with a shorter waiting gap for second doses July 13, 2021 “It is only thanks to the vaccine program, we are able to take these cautious steps, but to take these steps, we must be cautious and we must be vaccinated, so please, get that jab,” Boris Johnson cried from the podium of Downing Street yesterday. It was not, as the Prime Minister had once promised, [...]
Behind the OPEC standoff: Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the rush to decarbonise in the Middle East July 13, 2021 The breakdown of talks between the OPEC+ group of oil producers last week came down to disagreements between Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The two often time allies have found themselves on opposite sides of the fence over production levels of oil, a running source source of tension that has come to the fore more [...]