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The 2020s: Disruption? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
The Resolution Foundation launched its Economy 2030 Inquiry last week. The 2020s, it says, will be a decisive decade for the UK in a way that no other decade has been since the 1980s. It listed five ‘seismic’ changes that will hit … Continue reading
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Labour’s problem is not the Red Wall – it’s the Grey Wall
The Labour Party is in danger of losing its nerve again. Ten years ago, the story that Labour spent all the money and caused the country’s massive debt was allowed to go unchallenged. The Labour Party, paralysed by the shock … Continue reading
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Jenrick’s conjuring trick
Robert Jenrick made a big fuss about statues a couple of weeks ago. In a Sunday Telegraph article, he promised to save statues and street names from “town hall militants and woke worthies”. So great is the danger, he is … Continue reading
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Corporate purpose: a new dawn or a defensive ruse?
Is the corporate zeitgeist changing? After 30 years of shareholder primacy and focus on shareholder value, the language seems to have shifted. In what may be a sign of the times, the FT has started a Moral Money Forum, focusing … Continue reading
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Brexit bureaucracy – it’s not a bug, it’s a feature
After four years during which Brexit dominated UK news, it still seems to have taken British businesses by surprise. As evidence of the disruption mounts, business groups are calling on the government to ‘do something’ to sort out the mess. … Continue reading
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The outcry over LTNs is not a culture war – it’s more serious than that
We knew the latter half of 2020 would see arguments about Brexit, lockdown restrictions, masks and the US election. What we didn’t foresee was that, in many places, the row of the summer and autumn would be about Low Traffic … Continue reading
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The almost-but-not-quite recovery
The latest forecast for the UK economy from the Office for Budget Responsibility shows an almost-but-not-quite recovery. It starts off v-shaped with a rapid bounceback, then becomes tick-shaped as the recovery slows. The tick has a long tail and, over … Continue reading
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The end of the furlough and the new social divide
“It’s begun,” said Resolution Foundation chief executive Torsten Bell, as the increase in unemployment fed through into the labour market statistics for the first time. He also reminded employers that there were 45 days to go until the end of … Continue reading
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Britain’s reputation trashed for the sake of a three word slogan
Theresa May was horrified by the idea of a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. “No United Kingdom prime minister could ever agree to it,” she said. No sovereign state, least of all one that still claimed world … Continue reading
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Why Conservatives love the culture war
I bet Dominic Cummings did a little happy dance when someone scrawled graffiti on the Cenotaph during a Black Lives Matter protest. He probably opened a bottle when the Archbishop of Canterbury announced a review of statues in churches. These are … Continue reading
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