9 November 2017 A Lens on the Week UK SEX SCANDAL: Just six MPs and one official! The list of Labour activists subject to sexual allegations is much shorter than the list of Tories. Goodness knows why. Perhaps they haven’t got to the bottom of it all yet or perhaps Labour members are too busy… Continue reading Issue 128:2017 11 09:A lens on the week
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Issue 85: 2016 12 22: Week in Brief Financial
22 December 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY FOOD WARS: There seems to be no let-up in the struggle for market share, and for profits, between the supermarket chains. Tesco has announced that it has reversed its previous policy of selling off its supermarkets and then leasing them back, the idea of that… Continue reading Issue 85: 2016 12 22: Week in Brief Financial
Issue82:2016 12 01:Week in Brief Financial
1 December 2016 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY SMELL OF SUCCESS: It may be essential for the smooth running of our lives, but Pennon plc is one of those companies that is far from being a household name – even if what it does is household friendly. Pennon is a FTSE top 250 company… Continue reading Issue82:2016 12 01:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 76;2016 10 20:The inflation genie emerges (Frank O’Nomics)
20 October 2016 The inflation genie emerges How serious could UK inflation get and what can we do about it? by Frank O’Nomics Be careful what you wish for. After years of effort from the Bank of England to get inflation to return to their long-term target of 2%, it finally seems that price pressures… Continue reading Issue 76;2016 10 20:The inflation genie emerges (Frank O’Nomics)
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 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial
28 January 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ROOMS TO RENT: 50 CENTS: Not if the Chancellor has anything to do with it. The Treasury produced squeals of pain and anger when it changed the tax regime on mortgages taken by private landlords to acquire buy-to-let property, limiting landlords on how much loan… Continue reading Issue 38: 2016 01 28: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 37: 2016 01 21:Week in Brief Financial
21 January 2016 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY STEEL DECLINES: Further bad news in the steel industry as Tata Steel announced a further 25%% permanent cut in its UK steel making capacity, taking its forecast production down to 3.5 million tonnes. The cuts this time are at its two major South Wales plants where… Continue reading Issue 37: 2016 01 21:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 33:2015 12 17:Week in Brief financial
17 December 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ROLLING AWAY: As detailed in the story elsewhere in this week’s edition, speculation about the financial condition of Rolls Royce plc has surprised the stock market. 10, Downing Street refused to deny that possible nationalisation of the nuclear division was being considered to protect strategic… Continue reading Issue 33:2015 12 17:Week in Brief financial
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Week in Brief financial
10 December 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY OILED UP: OPEC met for its regular discussion last Friday, but the meeting was far from normal. Saudi Arabia and Iran, the two largest producers, who are already in a proxy war as they back different sides in the various conflicts around the Arabian Gulf,… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: Week in Brief financial
Issue 20: 2015 09 17: News in Brief: Business and City
17 September 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY SAWING OFF THE BRANCHES: The dismemberment of the Royal Bank of Scotland empire continues. A lot of this is the implementation of the promises made in 2008 when the government rescued the bank (once the biggest in Europe and with even greater aspirations under its… Continue reading Issue 20: 2015 09 17: News in Brief: Business and City
Issue 17:2015 08 27: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
27 August 2015 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BLACK MONDAY?: So the Tuesday headlines might have had you believe. Certainly stock markets round the world dropped very abruptly, and the cause is very easy to find – the faltering of the Chinese economy. China has had a long run of economic growth, around twenty… Continue reading Issue 17:2015 08 27: BUSINESS AND THE CITY
Issue 15: 2015 08 13: Week in Brief Financial
13 August 2015 Week in Brief:BUSINESS AND THE CITY SLOWING DOWN THE PUMPS: Has Saudi Arabia’s nerve finally cracked? The oil price has been heading down for months, but the Saudis, unlike in previous price slumps, have kept their production up, with much speculation as to what their strategy was – the most popular… Continue reading Issue 15: 2015 08 13: Week in Brief Financial
