Counting the human cost of Covid — and of leaving small business owners behind July 23, 2020 The daily lists of cases, tests and R numbers tell a tale of the scale of the Covid-19 crisis, but they don’t always explain the full story of the cost on people’s lives. ACCA and the Corporate Finance Network (CFN) are running a tracker poll among accountancy firms representing more than 22,000 small businesses to [...]
You Can Hold Politicians To Account Using Blockchain July 21, 2020 Politicians – and lots of other people, but mainly politicians – are continually trying to duck and dive around what they have committed to and what they have achieved. The media, as well as activist groups and regular citizens, spend countless hours trying to hold politicians to account. There has never been a better situation [...]
Left out in the cold: The company directors who have fallen through the cracks in the Treasury’s support schemes July 21, 2020 On Friday, the Prime Minister set out the latest steps towards reopening Britain’s economy, providing encouragement for many businesses. Combined with the chancellor’s promise earlier this month of a half-price lunch, the message appears clear: it’s time to get going and move the economy forward again. But as we do, the government should also take [...]
Porsche Cayman GTS 4.0 review: The joy of six July 18, 2020 I was blissfully ignorant at the time, but this would be my final fling. A few days later, the UK entered lockdown, and the freedom to simply go for a drive was abruptly revoked. In the weeks and months that followed, I often thought about that afternoon. Confined to Croydon, sealed off from friends and [...]
Young people face economic ‘scarring’ from Covid, says top think tank July 3, 2020 The coronavirus recession has dealt a double blow to young people in the UK, who are more likely to have lost their jobs amid the lockdown and now face bleak career prospects, a leading think tank has warned. New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) today said the carnage in the hospitality and [...]
Conservative MP Tracey Crouch diagnosed with breast cancer June 24, 2020 Tory MP Tracey Crouch has announced that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will not return to parliament for the foreseeable future. The MP for Chatham and Aylesford today issued a statement on Twitter saying: “Unfortunately I have been diagnosed with breast cancer. It came as a bit of a surprise but it [...]
2020: There is Still Time June 18, 2020 As we were preparing for the unavoidable lockdown, The Economist published the most descriptive cover: picture of the Earth with a “Closed” sign hanging across it. Indeed, it does feel like 2020 shouldn’t have happened. We started with Hong Kong protests, followed by the Australian fires, death of the NBA legend Kobe Bryan, finalization of [...]
Don’t panic: The last minute Father’s Day Guide June 18, 2020 If lockdown has left you losing all concept of time and space, it’s our duty to remind you that Sunday – yes, this Sunday – is Father’s Day. Earlier this week we featured a host of goodies for one’s old man, but no doubt some are still looking for that perfect gift / have completely [...]
Empowering communities with alternative currencies towards a post-Covid economy June 9, 2020 With humanitarian operations becoming more frequent, global and protracted, stakeholders are going to need to find alternative, multi-year pools of funding as well as new financial mechanisms to increase effectiveness and efficiency of existing resources. There was a time when humanitarian organisations only focused on short-term emergencies while development organisations focused only on long-term socioeconomic [...]
Pets at Home revenue tops £1bn but retailer warns on profit as stockpiling dwindles May 21, 2020 Pets at Home full-year revenue topped £1bn for the first time in the year to March but the retailer’s share price fell as it warned that a drop in stockpiling demand could impact future profit. The pet shop chain said it expects first-half pre-tax profit to be sharply lower than last year, as the spike [...]