09 March 2017 Week in Brief: UK BHS: Sir Philip Green has agreed to pay £363 million into the BHS pension scheme. Commentators have said that the payment was made in an attempt to salvage his reputation and to ensure that he would keep his knighthood. BREXIT: The Government suffered a defeat in the House… Continue reading Issue 95: 2017 03 09: Week in Brief: UK
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Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK
01 September Week in Brief: UK Politics IMMIGRATION: The total number of EU citizens living in Britain topped 3 million for the first time last year. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show the largest group as being 831,000 Poles which now exceeds the 795,000 British residents born in India. Net migration now stands at… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Week in Brief: UK
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
Issue64:2016 07 28:Electric Hero (J.R.Thomas)
28 July 2016 Electric Hero Is Musk the new Victorian? by J.R.Thomas The streets and squares of central London show that our Victorian forbears were pretty careful in their choice of heroes. Statues abound, many of great size and of majestic proportions, and most of military, naval, and scientific figures. A few politicians and royals,… Continue reading Issue64:2016 07 28:Electric Hero (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Week in Brief: UK
28 July 2016 Week in Brief: UK Government BREXIT: At a meeting with Mrs May, President Hollande indicated that France will keep to the Le Touquet agreement under which British border police operate in Calais. While stressing that ties between the two nations would remain strong, he also said that Britain would have to… Continue reading Issue 64: 2016 07 28: Week in Brief: UK
Issue58:2016 06 16: Week in Brief Financial
16 June 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY ASDA PRICE: The sack, it seems, is the ASDA price for its UK chief executive Andy Clarke. Walmart, who owns the UK big four grocer and supermarket chain, announced the change early this week, a shock apparently for Mr Clarke, an ASDA long-termer. Just… Continue reading Issue58:2016 06 16: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Week in Brief: UK
16 June 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU Referendum POLLS: With a week to go before the vote, the polls now show a substantial lead for the Leave campaign with YouGov, published on Tuesday, putting support for Leave at 46% and support for Remain at 39%. 11% were undecided and 4% did not expect to… Continue reading Issue 58: 2016 06 16: Week in Brief: UK
Issue54 :2016 05 19: Shred the Dosh (J.R. Thomas)
19 May 2016 Shred the Dosh by J.R.Thomas This is not a good time to be rich and powerful in Britain. The rich are generally not popular: the powerful even less so. There are compensations of course in having lots of money; the yachts, the supercars, the champagne. But even so, wealth has slightly lost… Continue reading Issue54 :2016 05 19: Shred the Dosh (J.R. Thomas)
Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Week in Brief: UK
05 May 2016 Week in Brief: UK EU Referendum VOTE LEAVE RESIGNATION: Labour donor John Mills has left the Vote Leave campaign to set up a separate group for Labour supporters favouring Brexit. He was dissatisfied by the attitude of Vote Leave to members of the Party. CLINTON AND BLAIR: If the exigencies of… Continue reading Issue 52: 2016 05 05: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 51: 2016 04 28:Week in Brief Financial
28 April 2016 Week In Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY MOVES ON THE HIGH STREET: This was our first headline last week, looking at changes in estate agency, but it equally fits changes in retail, with the failure of both British Home Stores (“BHS”) and Austin Reed this week. Both are fine old British firms,… Continue reading Issue 51: 2016 04 28:Week in Brief Financial
