Brexiter Lord Ashcroft advises UK companies to move to Malta to secure “European base”

Staunch Brexiter Lord Ashcroft has advised UK firms to move to Malta after Brexit. In a blog on Conservative Home the outspoken peer said "as a hard-nosed, self-made businessman, I believe that Malta represents the best destination for ambitious UK firms that must have a post-Brexit presence in the European Union". He said the "diverse, open-market economy" makes it an attractive place to move for UK firms that "have understandably decided, particularly in a period of uncertainty, that they will need...

Playing to lose in tonight’s win-win game is a nonsensical notion

With England and Belgium already qualified ahead of tonight's 'dead rubber' clash in Kaliningrad attention has turned to the virtues of second place in the group, which on paper maps an easier route to the World Cup final. As Robbie Savage pointed out on Twitter "surely coming 2nd is far better" for England, allowing them to swerve Colombia, France and Portugal among other potential opponents. It would pave the way to an England vs Brazil final that, according to Goldman Sachs forecasts, is...

Machine learning predicted Germany wins World Cup, but now AI tips England for final

Nobody bats an eyelid any more when various aquarium and zoo animals develop psychic abilities enabling them to predict World Cup scores. This year The Three Lions Pub in Bristol even has a regular dressed as an octopus predicting scores. But as it’s 2018, things have got a lot more sophisticated. A German team of machine learning researchers simulated 100,000 match eventualities to predict Germany to win the World Cup. But with Germany bowing out at the group stage of...

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