Regions that will be hardest hit by Brexit were the ones most likely to vote for it
The Brexit vote has been likened to "turkeys voting for Christmas" after it was revealed the hardest hit areas were the ones most likely to vote for it. A leaked government study detailing economic forecasts of how regions will fare over the next 15 years revealed most regions will be worse off after Britain leaves the EU, but some will fare worse than others. Ironically, the West Midlands and the North East, which voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, are...
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of January 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. February Investment Companies Roundup The oil price was up again over the month and this helped propel EF Realisation (whose largest asset is a US shale oil company) to the top of the tables. Fast Forward Innovations rose...
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018
QuotedData’s economic round up – February 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the companies mentioned. Kindly sponsored by Martin Currie February Economic and Political Roundup Roundup The major factors at play over January were a weak...
Why Is Email Verification Beneficial for Your Business
If you are using email marketing to grow your business, you are probably looking for tools that can improve your results. For example, your email list needs to be cleaned every once in a while, and there are many email verification services that can do the job for you pretty quickly. This software technology is advanced enough to clean your database of invalid, risky and abandoned email addresses. Once your list is clean, you would be able to attract amazing...
How will your area be hit by Brexit according to the Government’s leaked figures?
Every region of the UK is set to become poorer whichever Brexit scenario occurs according to the Government’s own figures it has emerged. As the Government finally caved into MP’s demands to see the official impact assessment report kept hidden from the public but leaked to Buzzfeed last week, it emerged that no region of Britain will be better off. And many of the regions with the highest votes for Brexit will be among the worst affected economically, according to...
Theresa May embroiled in growing row over NHS for sale in post Brexit US trade deal
Theresa May accused of giving Donald Trump "green light to get his hands on our NHS” PM refuses to answer questions days after Trump attacks Britain's NHS May in crunch talks with hardline Brexiteer Tories MP's demand assurances British hospitals not open for trade deal carve up Jeremy Hunt asked to confirm no greater access for US companies @BenGelblum MP’s have renewed calls on Theresa May to rule out forced privatisation of the NHS in any post-Brexit US trade deal....
PLAYLIST: Best of JANUARY 2018
January is typically a bit of a dead zone for releases - not so in 2018. Who could have seen this lot coming? First off, The Breeders are back and sounding just wonderful with that inimitable Kim Deal drawl. Jay Som, who released probably our favourite album of 2017 in Everybody Works, has been back to the bedroom to work on some new tunes, which we'll be keeping an eagle-eye out for. And Justin Timberlake released an absolute banger -...
“You can’t have public safety on the cheap” – Corbyn and May clash on crime figures and police funding
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have clashed over crime figures and police funding at PMQs, with Corbyn telling May: “You can’t have public safety on the cheap.” “With crime rising does the Prime Minister regret cutting 21,000 police officers,” asked the Labour leader, launching a fractious Prime Minister’s Questions exchange on the traditional Conservative comfort zone of crime and punishment. “Recorded crime is up by one fifth since 2010, violent crime up by 20% and during the period when the...
DSEI London arms fair protestors in “No Faith in War Day” acquitted as judge concedes actions were reasonable
In the fourth in a series of trials at Stratford Magistrates Court involving demonstrations against the DSEI arms fair in London last year, the judge has thrown out the charges, describing the protestors’ actions as ‘reasonable’. In a boost to the right to peaceful protest against the arms fair, District Judge Hamilton acquitted all four defendants of charges of obstructing the highway. Raj Chada, a criminal defence lawyer at London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen defended Nora Ziegler, one...