Travel abroad will be safer this summer and the UK’s green list update should reflect this June 2, 2021 Travel abroad will be safer this summer and the UK's green list update should reflect this
British farmers should stop fearing a UK-Australia trade deal and learn to take competition in their stride June 2, 2021 Britain is on the cusp of a trade deal with Australia, set to be finalised by early June. Concerns from farmers, however, have dominated the discourse amid fears over what an influx of cheaper imports could mean for them. It is vital the deal is not derailed and watered down in the face of these [...]
Longer lockdown based on hypotheticals would come with serious economic costs June 2, 2021 The penny is finally beginning to drop. The health service’s focus on giving absolute priority to the treatment of Covid-19 generates costs and problems on a massive scale. Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, has warned of the huge pressures on the NHS from the backlog of non-Covid cases. Many of these are life-threatening [...]
The damning case against China over Covid-19 deserves proper attention June 1, 2021 As John Stuart Mill so eloquently wrote: “the only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” Fortified by this moral admonition, I went on to write an April 2020 piece in CapX, charging the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with direct culpability in the spread of [...]
Office politics: Hybrid working will make WFH look like a walk in the park June 1, 2021 The pandemic has disrupted society on every level. For the world of business, the first national lockdown brought about seismic changes, as entire offices were sent home and IT systems were overhauled within the space of a week or two. But incredibly, this rapid shift to home working was the easy part of the journey [...]
Thinking around corners on UK rental market could transform life for the better June 1, 2021 With pubs and restaurants open across London once again, the capital’s young professionals can return to one of their favourite pastimes: gathering together over a drink to complain about the rental market. We all know the stereotypical ladder: you begin in a slightly shabby, probably shared flat, you move on to somewhere on your own [...]
Can you code? Now is your chance to rescue the planet May 31, 2021 It has never been so easy to build a technology product, raise capital, and bring it to thousands, even millions of people. And all in a matter of months. Consider Hopin; the London-based virtual events platform, founded in 2019, has grown from six employees to more than 400 and now boasts over 80,000 user organisations – a good [...]
City has lost a great green advocate but the fight will continue May 31, 2021 Last week the City of London, and dare I say the world, lost a key advocate of the role the financial sector plays in the fight against climate change. Sir Roger Gifford, Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2012-13 and Chair of the Green Finance Institute, was instrumental in driving forward the green [...]
Oatly has climbed to the top of the legion of alternative milks. Can it keep up the momentum? May 29, 2021 Oatly shares soared in its stock market debut last Wednesday and the alternative-milk giant was valued at a staggering $13bn, after its sales doubled in 2020 to $421m. The Swedish brand benefits from being born green; with dairy alternatives measurably better for the planet and far better tasting than a decade ago. Climate change concern and the [...]
Generous trade offer to Australia will allow Global Britain to demand the same elsewhere May 29, 2021 The free-traders in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet appear to have won the day: the Prime Minister has reportedly sided with Trade Secretary Liz Truss, his Brexit advisor Lord Frost and other Cabinet liberals to support a zero-tariff, zero-quota trade deal with Australia. The protectionists who wanted a watered-down deal – led by Environment Secretary George Eustice [...]