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A trans-Pacific trade deal is great if we have the right products to sell
BBC News reported Britain’s imminent accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership behind two stories about racism…
Sir Jim or the Sheikh for Man Utd? Either will be better than the Glazers
‘Greenwashing vs Sportswashing’, as Sky Sports put it, is a curious way to characterise the emerging £6 billion takeover tussle…
Is corporate ‘purpose’ falling out of fashion?
Does a change of chief executive at Unilever, the British-based shampoo-to-Marmite multinational, signal the demise of the fashion for corporate…
What Boris Johnson should do next
If you were rich, foreign and globally mobile, would you choose to move to the UK? The trend, it turns…
We should never have tried cosying up to Chinese investors
I can’t read ‘China rocked by protests’ and ‘Zero Covid could be the end of Xi Jinping’s rule’ without recalling…
The welcome death of the ‘my truth’ investment boom
A colourful selection of news items this week seem to have a central thread. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the Theranos…
Made.com is a dotcom parable from an earlier era
‘Reparations’, much bandied about at Cop27, is a dangerous word. It speaks of an admission of historic guilt, which no…
After the Truss-Kwarteng crash, a tentative welcome for Sunak
Let’s hope Tuesday’s partial eclipse of the sun was a good omen for the return of Rishi Sunak to Downing…
The truth about corporate taxes
I’ve chosen to write about corporate tax rates this week not because they’re the sexiest subject available but because –…
