30 November 2017 A lens on the week UK BREXIT: Posturing, grandstanding and a smattering of mischief making, all the usual ingredients of the U.K.’s relationship with the Republic of Ireland, have been on display in relation to Brexit. The problem is the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. While no physical border is… Continue reading Issue 131:2017 11 30:A lens on the week
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Issue 97:2017 03 23: Week in Brief Financial
23 March 2017 Week in Brief: Business and the City WITHOUT A PADDLE: Thames Water have been fined £20 million for pumping almost one and a half billion litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames in 2013 and 2014, killing birds, fish and dragonflies and polluting the river, normally an attractive feature of Henley… Continue reading Issue 97:2017 03 23: Week in Brief Financial
Issue 55: 2016 05 26:Week in brief Financial
26 May 2016 Week in Brief: BUSINESS AND THE CITY BLOWS THE WIND FOR FRANCE? After many months, years indeed, of negotiations at all levels, the outlook for building the proposed Hinkley Point nuclear power station is still confused. Readers may recall that the power station, to be built and operated by EDF, the French… Continue reading Issue 55: 2016 05 26:Week in brief Financial