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Farming, Building and Bombs: Challenges for 2025 and beyond

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In 2025 the UK Labour government, through their planning and infrastructure bill, wants to encourage investment in multiple asset classes as diverse as housebuilding and public sector projects such as schools, hospitals, and prisons along with increasing defence spending on number of military programmes. Whether shared-ownership homes, GP’s surgeries or submarines they all require co-operative […]

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Summertime Freneticism

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The summer months of 2024 have proved eventful with early general elections in the UK where the Labour party won a large majority on a third of the vote. In France too, a left-wing coalition gained seats in the Assembly Nationale over incumbent President Macron’s centrist UMP. Iran held a presidential election, after the untimely

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So, Who Do you Think You Are?

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The half-forgotten yet still familiar habits and customs that maintain a social-class system beyond its original state and why those habits and social customs provided people with a sense of belonging and common cause in the country and the social hierarchy where they live. A Brief History: Cultural sensibilities and affiliations arise and deepen through

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Higher for How Much Longer and Steady the Shipping? 

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October 2023’s ‘Higher for Longer: A Cure and a Curse’ blog requires an update to how much longer will central bankers hold interest rates at their current levels before rate cutting begins- for instance, the European Central Bank is expected to start in June.  Central Bankers and their economic advisors, along with media pundits, are

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That’s Resilience for You: US Q3 GDP Growth Revised Up from 4.9% to 5.2%

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Despite economic concerns over issues such as inflation and rising interest rates, geo-political tensions and hostilities, the world’s largest economy has just had its gross domestic product growth revised up to 5.2% for period from July to September 2023, according to the Daily FX website. The Financial Times (2023) initially reported the story at the

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The Problem of Appropriate Accountability

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The complicity blog’s conclusion (Little Deal Clincher, August 2023) mentions of the Problem of Appropriate Accountability which concerns citizens who are substantially removed from decision-making or effective influence over events. These events can be political, military, or commercial. It is where culpability and complicity are retrospectively applied, after injustices or accusations of such have occurred,

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What’s to do in ’22

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When government calls for social restraint or implements COVID restrictions in order as claimed to slow the spread of the latest variant and reduce demands on the health service. The result are curbs on people’s liberty and a reduction in economic activity. Whether these are justified or effective are the subject of political debate and

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Easing into a Deep Recession: The Agonies of Government in a Post-Peak World.

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And now the difficult part starts- easing lockdown and restarting economies. After 2 months most countries in Europe, Asia and North America are trying to return to normality or at least a socially distanced one. Other places like Brazil remain in a life and death struggle with this vicious strain of Coronavirus. Read more Notwithstanding

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NATO Wobbles and Kurds Abandoned: You Left Me Just When I Needed You Most

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The 70th year celebrations of the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has been less an occasion of congratulations and more of niggling squabbles and backstabbing gossip. The meeting of members took place in the UK in Hertfordshire and Buckingham Palace, London. US President Trump complained about the Canadian Premier reneging on the 2%

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