Silvano Stagni, contributor at Parliament Magazine and managing director of Perpetual Motion Consulting and Research, asks whether we have the data to navigate the changes to the relationship between making the investment decision and executing it.
London, (Parliament Politics Magazine) – In January, the UK GDP rose by 0.8%; was it a promising start of 2022 or a one-off? Towards the end of the month, the release from Omicron-related restriction boosted the economy. British consumers were out spending
London, (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Anyone living in the United Kingdom has already noticed that living costs are going up. It is not just a matter of inflation; the UK faced higher energy prices before Putin invaded Ukraine. The rise in the
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): Boris Johnson is facing fresh pressure after Downing Street confirmed that workers gathered inside No 10 to celebrate his birthday during the first Covid wave when the country was on lockdown. According to ITV News, up to 30
The past couple of years have been a huge logistic headache; it might have been related to lockdown, it might have happened independently, opinions differ. Anyway, congested ports, containers in the wrong part of the world, and not enough truck drivers have
Difficulties in finding staff are not specific to the United Kingdom. The pandemic has made many people reassess their life’s priorities, and many are using what they experienced during lockdown to rebuild their lives in a different way. In the United Kingdom,
In the United Kingdom, the “work from home” mandate has been removed. People are free to return to their office or may have to return to their offices depending on the organisation they work for. In the past two years every time
In “normal times,” the days leading to Christmas and New Year are hectic for business sectors that have significantly suffered from COVID containment measures. Lockdown has sent most consumers to the internet to do their shopping, and footfall has generally crashed since
The Suez Canal Authority reported that the Ever AIM, a giant container ship sister of the one who blocked the Suez Canal early this year, successfully made it through the canal as part of a south-north convoy. Retailers in the continent of
Immigration is a sensitive topic in the United Kingdom. Politicians and the media often lump together refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Attitudes vary depending on where you sit in the political spectrum, but the overall attitude to immigration is clear. Britain may
A review of the rules around babies being allowed in to the Parliament chamber has been announced by the Speaker of the House of Commons. It comes after a Parliament member complained that she was not allowed to take her three-month old
Just as Boris Johnson dressed up as a police office to announce a crackdown on drug crime, “rife” cocaine use has been reported within U.K Parliament. The Sunday Times newspaper has published a report outlining that several locations inside the Palace of
Traditionally, importing people was the primary strategy to solve skill and labour shortages in the UK. Recruiters roamed villages in Bangladesh to recruit workers for tyre factories. London transport sent recruiters to the Caribbean; the NHS heavily recruits nurses from abroad, etc.
The Royal Air Force’s participation in a military exercise in the Middle East did not go unnoticed. They joined the US Air Force, Israeli Air Force, Emirates Air Force, and other air forces in military exercises. It was another episode in a
The Bank of England “kept calm and carried on” with no change in interest rate. Inflation was not considered as much of a concern as the fragile state of the recovery. Where does this fragility come from? Let’s think of the
When you do building work in your home things around you usually get very bad before they get better. The moment comes when you have had enough of eating meals cooked in the microwave in the spare bedroom and washing dishes in
In 2018, the British financial industry was the source of over a third of all the tax revenues, either directly through taxes paid by companies or indirectly through the PAYE of employees working in finance. When the UK was part of the
The daily lives of residents in the United Kingdom are affected by the lack of people in many jobs. The economy is picking up from the months of lockdown, businesses are re-opening, and they cannot find people to fill the vacant position.
