16 November 2017 A Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: There is gang warfare in the Cabinet. Foreign Secretary Johnson and Environment Secretary Gove have got over the animosity caused by Gove undermining Johnson’s leadership bid and now stand back-to-back in their shared concern that the Government is not putting sufficient energy into the… Continue reading Issue 129:2017 11 16:Lens on the Week
Tag: Hinkley Point
Issue 112:2017 07 06:Week in Brief Financial
06 July 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY NO DIVIDENDS FOR GOING INTERCITY: The number of passengers carried may be reaching record levels, and the railway network is probably in its best physical condition for eighty years, but profits are proving elusive. In fact, rail earnings are at their lowest level for a… Continue reading Issue 112:2017 07 06:Week in Brief Financial
Issue99:2017 04 03: Week in Brief financial
06 April 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BRAKES ON AT CARR’S: Carr’s is an unusual conglomerate, combining a traditional but sizeable business of selling agricultural supplies in the UK, New Zealand, and the USA, with a technical engineering business which is strong in nuclear. The idea is that they are sufficiently diverse… Continue reading Issue99:2017 04 03: Week in Brief financial
Issue 99:2017 03 06:Lack of energy
06 April 2017 Lack of Energy Enough to be getting on with. by J.R.Thomas If there is a staple subject for the Business Pages of the Shaw Sheet, it is energy. That fabled visitor from another planet might well conclude that the earth is about to run out of power, so much concern is endlessly… Continue reading Issue 99:2017 03 06:Lack of energy
Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Week in Brief: UK
22 September 2016 Week in Brief: UK International Politics FORWARD POLICY: In her first speech to the United Nations, Mrs May confirmed that the UK would continue to spend 2% of GDP on defence. She is also to send troops to Somalia and provide aid to create jobs in Ethiopia. This is a continuation of Mr… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 71: 2016 09 15: Week in Brief: UK
15 September 2016 Week in Brief: UK Foreign Affairs LIBYA: A report of the House of Commons Defence Committee has heavily criticised David Cameron’s role in the 2011 bombing campaign in Libya. Stating that the then Chief of Defence Staff, Lord Richards, disassociated himself from the claim that the operation was in the national interest,… Continue reading Issue 71: 2016 09 15: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Week in Brief: UK
08 September 2016 Week in Brief: UK General Politics CHILD ABUSE ENQUIRY: Dame Lowell Goddard, the New Zealand judge who recently resigned from the chairmanship of the abuse enquiry, has said that its extensive scale and size makes it unmanageable. She has suggested that her resignation presents an opportunity to remodel it with less focus… Continue reading Issue 70: 2016 09 08: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 69:2016 09 01:Week in Brief Financial
1 September 2016 Week in Brief: Business and the City BRAKE AND ACCELERATE: Tata’s UK subsidiary JLR – or Jaguar Land Rover as it is better known – reported a good second quarter to the end of June. Or was it a bad second quarter? In terms of volume it was certainly very impressive; sales… Continue reading Issue 69:2016 09 01:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief Financial
25 August 2016 Week in Brief: Business and the City CITY SHOCK HORROR: For traditional City of London earners it may be the first swallow leaving for winter… closely followed by the second. Woodford Investment Management have announced that they are abolishing bonuses for all staff in their specialist investment management business. Woodford, founded… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Week in Brief: Business
11 August 2016 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY NOT TO THE POINT: The troubled saga of the new Hinckley Point power station – or at least, the lack of construction thereof – continues. As readers will recollect, EDF, the French mainly state owned company who had entered into complex arrangements with the British… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Week in Brief: Business
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Week in Brief: UK
04 August 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government News HINKLEY POINT: The Government has postponed a decision on Hinkley Point C pending a further review. The announcement, which was made just before the deal was due to be signed, took the energy industry by surprise. It is understood that EDF, the French company which was… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Les Vacances de l’Été (Richard Pooley)
04 August 2016 Les Vacances de l’Été Not all on holiday at all. by Richard Pooley You could hear the contempt in the British man’s voice. I can’t recall who he was – a politician or a reporter – but he was speaking on the BBC last week about the likely reaction of the French… Continue reading Issue 65: 2016 08 04: Les Vacances de l’Été (Richard Pooley)
Issue65:2016 08 04: Week in Brief financial
4 August 2016 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY STEADY…: There is a great deal of chat now that Brexit vote has not had the expected negative effects on the UK economy and that the economic outlook is good, even dazzling. And also, in direct contradiction, that economic indicators are weak and pointing steeply downwards… Continue reading Issue65:2016 08 04: Week in Brief financial
