As Mark Carney prepares to make way for new governor Andrew Bailey, he’s voiced the suggestion that UK interest rates could be cut if the economy wobbles in early 2020. His view may be in anticipation, as some have concluded, of an economic shock resulting from the UK’s exit from the UK on 31st January. …
What has WWII got to tell us about globalisation? The answer, a lot.
It took international co-operation, co-ordination and a subsuming of national sovereignty (British troops, for example, were under US control in some theatres) as well as a deepening of economic, political and social ties, to bring the Second World War to a close. As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings and the Battle …
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Brexit – why it’s time to give a little love
Events this week and, no doubt, for the next few weeks and months, will decide the economic and political future of the UK – and of each and every one of us who live here. Whether you voted to leave or remain, the fact is that we are now in a hugely damaging situation, with …
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