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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 recovery won’t be V-shaped
Last week’s GDP figures showed the depth of the economic contraction during the lockdown and the extent of the bounceback afterwards. The decline was unprecedented but so was the subsequent growth. This is what happens when you switch the economy … 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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This recession could be long and deep
If, like me, you have spent some of your lockdown time catching up with stuff you recorded earlier in the year, you will have experienced that strange sense of watching something from a bygone age. The adverts, in particular, feel … Continue reading
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Don’t make the self-employed the punchbag of the next recession
Two months ago, few people had heard of Rishi Sunak. He is now about to go down in history as the most interventionist peacetime chancellor. His plan to pay 80 percent of the wages of employees kept on by their … Continue reading
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