It’s still about the economy, stupid
By Andy Irwin On their own, opinion polls offer little more than a fleeting glimpse of a point in time, a snapshot of the immediate thinking of a sample of the electorate – they are dated before the ink is dry. Different polls have their own biases depending on the sampling methods they use and, dare I say, the association of particular media outlets or individuals associated with the polls. These differences are often slight, and looking at a number...
The Blame-Game, Double Standards & Fast Food: A Tale of the United States Economy
By Haridos Apostolides, US Correspondent The end of April saw the proposed federal minimum wage increase to $10.10 per hour defeated by a Republican-led filibuster in the United States’ Senate, all because it is claimed not to be the job of the federal government to decide salaries. The vote, however, wasn’t about giving millions of working Americans a pay raise but rather to decide if the Senate should merely discuss whether they deserve one. Democrats and Republicans live for divisive, partisan...
The Horror of Fracking and Why We Can’t Regulate it – A Warning!!
By J T Coombes www.globalmagnacarta.com @GMagnaCarta The problem is all in the title. Fracking is all about ‘hydraulic fracturing’ to give it its full title. Simply put it’s a procedure that creates fractures in rocks and their formations deep under the earth, by injecting sand water and chemicals into cracks to force them to open further. This allows more oil and gas to come out of the rock formation where it can be extracted. In essence it is putting underground...
Is the government doing enough to rebalance the economy? Don’t forget the Industrial North.
By Paul Johnson The government has lauded the recent economic recovery and ‘rebalancing the economy’ has been one of the popular phrases of the Coalition. But 80 per cent of new private sector jobs are in London (Centre for Cities, 2014) and many people in the North are not feeling the effects of the recent economic recovery. One of the reasons the pre-2008 model of economic growth failed is that the UK relied too heavily on public and private borrowing...
Naïve Liverpool blow chance of title
David De Winter - Sports Writer Hindsight is a wonderful thing. What if I had actually revised for my A-Levels instead of watching the 2006 World Cup? Would I have gone to a better university? Probably (thank God I didn’t). What if, on one of my desperate and all-to-frequent forays on to Tinder, I had swiped that borderline girl right instead of left? Would I finally have a match? Don’t be silly. What if Steven Gerrard hadn’t stumbled and let Demba...
TLE: The Story so Far
By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic “I'm going to start a revolution from my bed” – Noel Gallagher Greece is the birthplace of most good ideas. From science to technology, athletics to democracy, it has long nurtured great minds and great concepts, and it was a Greek sunset in early July last year that set in motion ideas that would become The London Economic. The plan was to make a digital newspaper that would become a platform for...
Please don’t read too much into the Opinion Polls
By Gregory Taylor Election time is almost upon us once again, and with the election comes the endless opinion polls. Of course reading an opinion poll is good idea to work out what’s going on in the country and it gives the parties an idea of how well things are going, but people should not read too much into them. Often you hear people talk about how UKIP is polling very high and the decline in support for the Lib...
When the credit gets tough
By Valentina Magri “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”, said Joseph P. Kennedy, father of the US president JFK. But what happens when the credit gets tough? Credit crunch in the UK The word “credit crunch” was unknown to most of the Brits until 9 August 2007, “the day that world changed”, according to Adam Applegarth, chief executive at the British bank Northern Rock. On that day, the French investment bank BNP Paripas stated that they will...
Location, Location, Location…
Stuart Buchanan, Junior Broadcast Executive at 4mediarelations, discusses the launch of London Live Living in the 24-hour news culture that we do we have become accustomed to global events being delivered to us within an instant. The Global Village, a term coined by Marshall McLuhan, aptly describes how the globe has become a single village of electric technology thanks to the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time. The prospect of electronic media...