Harvest 2026 to Those with Rain and Those Without. In conversation over the weekend of 8/9th August Little Deal Clincher learned from farming friends that due to southern Scotland having more rainfall over the growing period for this season’s cereals yields were within normal expectations and the quality reasonable (Farming Online Prices: Prices). Those with […]
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The choice for a private investor of when to make strategic comprehensive purchases, sales or changes in operations and remain as rational and unemotionally biased as possible whilst doing so takes concerted effort and diligence. So far in 2026 events are proving their case over multiple points and a view formed in early March, post-
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Gen Z and Beyond Encourage Them or Lose Them Millennial angst and resentment towards the Boomer generation, particularly the affluent types, provides Generation X with a chance not to miss. Boomers are astonished that their own generational struggles have become denigrated by the younger generations and this disparity has been an inter-generational sore point for years.(See reference:
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My blog last week asked “What reasons could lie behind people becoming discontented with the UK and to seek the hope of a better life elsewhere?” (read full blog). This week we look at whether there’s justification for this discontetment. Ideology transmutes into government policy when expressed through functioning democratic institutions, like parliament or municipal
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Is the Grass Really Greener Elsewhere? From July to October 2025, the Bank of England and the Office of Budget Responsibility gave gloomy reports on the state of the UK economy. They reported business confidence had diminished, with new investment faltering, and a slowing job market. These were in tandem with doubts over government promises
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Liberation day arrived for the US economy on the 2nd of April 2025 proclaimed US President Trump from his Rose Garden address at the White House. When his administration applied reciprocal tariffs on multiple trading partners. Tariffs were always a key policy tool for his second term. However, commentors questioned what benefits would arise from
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Part One of this blog series discussed whether the commencement of the 2nd Trump Administration would alter the political will and allegiances of highly educated professionals and the techno-managerial class- Will they remain under the influence of a left-leaning ideology prevalent in recent decades or yield to the new administration’s political manifesto to retain their
This part of the blog series on the political ascendancy of the professional and managerial classes (PMC) shall comment on the return of Donald Trump as 47th President of the USA and the reaction to the result, and future challenges ahead. Introduction It shall refer to the politically influential left leaning (or liberal in US
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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
Farming, Building and Bombs: Challenges for 2025 and beyond Read More »
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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