The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 has brought a global lockdown that has postponed or cancelled many plans and events, including the European Football Championship and the Tokyo Olympics. It has sadly claimed 679,974 lives so far and climbing with spikes across European countries and numbers climbing rapidly in populous counties like India with strict regional […]
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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
Easing into a Deep Recession: The Agonies of Government in a Post-Peak World. Read More »
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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World events are keeping investors, commentators and world markets fully engaged after armed drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and the Khurais oilfield. The strikes caused massive fires and production outages causing oil prices to spike up to 20% in the immediate aftermath of the attacks before settling circa. $65 per
Brexit or Not: Iran Denies as Saudi Burns while Turkey Buys and China Churns. Read More »
Boris Johnston has become the UK’s new prime minister as widely expected- see June 2019 blog- by winning the Conservative party members’ votes for a new leader.
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The UK has a caretaker Prime Minister from Friday 7th June until a replacement leader is chosen by the Conservative Party later in the Summer. How long can the new incumbent last in attempting to push a Brexit decision through parliament remains to be seen. A vote of no-confidence is a strong possibility if support
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From 2016 the UK began generating more electricity from wind turbines than from burning coal. In April 2019 the UK,” set a new record for coal free-power” of 90 hours of using only gas, nuclear and renewable sources of energy including hydro and imports of electricity (FT,2019).
The first bad is in the form of disappointment from UK outsourcer Interserve PLC falling in to the hands of administrators (see 20th December 2018 blog for further discussion how and why). A proposed debt-to-equity swap for its lenders was blocked led by its largest shareholder US Coltrane Asset Management as it was highly dilutive
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The global business and political elites have already met for the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland. With much expounding on how to make the world a better place according to their point of view. While the rest of the world pursues its political woes with brexit Britain, or identity politics of the
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There was a period during Thatcher’s Britain in the early 1980’s until sometime just before everything was subcontracted out by who was initially contracted to do the work on a plethora of government and public agency contracts. It included cleaning hospitals, running prisons, maintaining roads or indeed building them using the PFI method of procurement where
UK Outsourcing: Played Out and Time to Throw Out a Defunct Business Idea. Read More »
