14 September 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit GREAT REPEAL BILL: The bill which resets UK law at the point of Brexit passed its second reading comfortably with the Democratic Unionists and seven Labour MPs supporting the government. Now it will move to committee. Although a further Commons vote has given the Government control of… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 117:2017 08 10:Week in Brief Financial
10 August 2017 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY POWER BOOST: As the government ponders what to do, if anything, about promises made to review consumer electricity and gas prices, here comes some more competition to the supply side. It is serious competition indeed – Royal Dutch Shell, the oil drilling, refining, and retailing… Continue reading Issue 117:2017 08 10:Week in Brief Financial
Issue 78:2016 11 03:Week in Brief financial
3 November 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY UBER LAW: Technology is building a new world of super service; no need to get the car out to go and collect your takeaway; just lie back in your armchair, mobile phone in hand, scroll a menu for dozens of different food types, press a… Continue reading Issue 78:2016 11 03: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 10: 2015 07 09: Surplus Energy
09 July 2015 Surplus Energy by J R Thomas Apologies to those who think the Shaw Sheet is developing an obsession with what lies under our feet. Last week potash, this week oil. Potash is something we don’t think about very much in normal life, but it is vital to how we feed our ever-growing… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Surplus Energy
