2018 – the return of volatility A trade war, Brexit, US interest rate rises, slowing Chinese growth, a US government shutdown, a dispute over Italy’s budget, the Skripal poisonings, numerous elections – there was plenty to worry about in 2018. A last-minute dive left the US market in negative territory.Sterling continued ...
The drastic slump on the high street shows no signs of improving after a report indicated that 70,000 retail jobs were cut in 2018. Customers are increasingly shopping on-line leading to huge falls in profits for many household name retailers. The British Retail Consortium (BRC), who conducted the study, said ...
The revolving door between Government and big business is a well-trodden path, which shows no signs of abating. Now former Brexit Secretary, David Davis, will trouser a colossal £3,000 an hour as an advisor to JCB. The firm ploughs million into the Conservative Party. It total Davis will be paid ...
“How many more must die before the Government takes positive action to keep people safe in their beds?”
Brexit-backer Sir James Dyson is to relocate the Dyson head office from the UK to Singapore. The prominent Leaver revealed that the island city-state will become the company’s registered headquarters and tax base. The headquarters will switch from Malmesbury, Wiltshire, in a move that is said to be unrelated to ...
The only moments in life that count for something are the exceptions. Mondays are Mondays just as Tuesdays blend into every other Tuesday except for the Wednesday that wasn’t a Wednesday because it was the day when, like the title of Joe Heller’s oft-neglected yet brilliant novel, Something Happened. For ...
Rationalist vs Leave theory that exiting the EU means "taking back control".
David Cameron assured Donald Tusk that there was "no risk of a referendum" after promising to hold a vote on Britain's membership of the European Union in his 2015 General Election manifesto. The former Conservative leader believed he wouldn't need to hold a vote because he expected to fall short of an ...
The ice is melting quicker than scientists previously thought - and they say it will likely lead to faster sea level rises, due to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth's atmosphere