26 October 2017 Xanadu in Canada and Saudi Arabia Stately pleasure domes decreed by Google and Prince Mohammed. By Neil Tidmarsh Last week President Sisi of Egypt donned the mantle of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and announced plans to build his country a new capital city – “a miracle of rare device” no doubt – in… Continue reading Issue 126: 2017 10 26: Xanadu in Canada and Saudi Arabia (Neil Tidmarsh)
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Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Turning Left (Chin Chin)
07 September 2017 Turning Left Choosing the way forward. By Chin Chin Just as an army consists mainly of infantry, so most of the people you meet in life are slightly pedestrian. That isn’t to say that they don’t have their uses. Hewers of wood and drawers of water are as essential to the 21st… Continue reading Issue 119: 2017 09 07: Turning Left (Chin Chin)
Issue 112: 2017 07 06: week in Brief: UK
06 July 2017 Week In Brief: UK Government AUSTERITY: The government’s austerity policy has come under renewed pressure with demonstrations against the 1% limit on increases to public sector pay and cuts to the real education budget. The 1% pay cap has been in place since 2013, before which time there was a freeze on… Continue reading Issue 112: 2017 07 06: week in Brief: UK
Issue 99: 2017 04 06: Week in Brief: UK
06 April 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit REPEAL BILL WHITE PAPER: The Government has published the Great Repeal Bill White Paper setting out the mechanisms through which Britain will disengage from the EU. The idea is that as from the date of exit (29 March 2019), the European Communities Act will be repealed so… Continue reading Issue 99: 2017 04 06: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 98: 2017 03 30: Week in Brief: UK
30 March 2017 Week in Brief: UK Westminster ARTICLE 50: Britain has served notice under article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, beginning the two year countdown to its exit from the EU. LABOUR: Shadow Brexit secretary Kier Starmer has set out six conditions which his party will require if they are to back the… Continue reading Issue 98: 2017 03 30: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 63: 2016 07 21: The Case For Experts (Lynda Goetz)
21 July 2016 The Case for Experts Why we need to listen to those with knowledge by Lynda Goetz When so much is happening in both the UK and the wider world and events are moving so dizzyingly fast that the whole thing sometimes seems like a giant surrealistic blur, it can be hard to… Continue reading Issue 63: 2016 07 21: The Case For Experts (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 40: 2016 02 11: Do Multinationals Pay Enough Tax? (John Watson)
11 February 2016 Do Multinationals Pay Enough Tax? The Shaw Sheet’s litmus test. by John Watson If you read bed-time stories to young children you will have discovered that they like to hear the same tale over and over again. It doesn’t matter that they know the ending. Their minds are locked onto a particular… Continue reading Issue 40: 2016 02 11: Do Multinationals Pay Enough Tax? (John Watson)
Issue 39: 2016 02 04: Lynching Google (John Watson)
04 February 2016 Lynching Google Analysis of a tax witch-hunt. By John Watson What are the ingredients of a witch-hunt? No, put down that recipe book, I am not talking about a new form of gateaux but rather the sort of thing that went on in mediaeval England with ducking stools, ostracism, stocks, lynchings and… Continue reading Issue 39: 2016 02 04: Lynching Google (John Watson)
Issue 39: 2016 02 04: Week in Brief: UK
04 February 2016 Week in Brief: UK GOOGLE TAX: The Government and HMRC have come under fire for agreeing a tax deal with Google which means the company will pay £130 million back tax over ten years. It is thought that the amount of corporation tax paid is equivalent to a rate of 3%. Criticism… Continue reading Issue 39: 2016 02 04: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 23: 2015 10 08: Week in Brief: CITY
08 October 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY AN INSPECTOR CALLS: The Serious Fraud Office has announced that it is investigating actions instigated by the Bank of England during the early stages of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. The Bank of England has confirmed that several officials have voluntarily met officers from… Continue reading Issue 23: 2015 10 08: Week in Brief: CITY
Issue 22: 2015 10 01: Week in Brief: UK
01 October 2015 Week in Brief: UK CYBERCRIME: According to The Times, less than one in every hundred cases of online fraud is investigated by the police, with 3,200,000 frauds over the last year resulting in less than 9,000 being followed up. A computer program is used to identify which cases warrant action by the… Continue reading Issue 22: 2015 10 01: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 16: 2015 08 20: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
20 August 2015 News in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOFLATION: The new word for lack of inflation, and indeed, lack of deflation. That seems as though it might continue to be the state of the price indices in the UK for a while yet. Having escaped the fear of deflation last year, the… Continue reading Issue 16: 2015 08 20: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Send and Unsend
02 July 2015 Send and Unsend By Chin Chin It was all very well for Edith Piaf to sing “Je ne regrette rien” but for most of us reality is rather different. The thoughtless word that gives too much away, the bon mot that turns out not to be so bon after all, that order… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Send and Unsend
