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The march of the high street bank closure continues its relentless pace, with Halifax, part of the Lloyds Banking Group, announcing the shuttering of a further 14 branches across the UK in 2026, including an outpost in London. This latest tranche is not an anomaly but a predictable beat in the rhythm of a long-term national retreat from physical banking. …
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The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on the UK government to radically lower its food import standards, specifically to permit the sale of cheaper American meat produced using methods long banned in Europe. In exchange, Washington is offering to revive a beneficial technology partnership agreement between the two nations. The goods in question are primarily poultry washed with chlorine …
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You know that unnerving feeling when the market moves in ways that just don’t add up? When a obscure stock suddenly rockets for no clear reason, or a flash crash ripples through the system? Often, the culprit isn’t in a boardroom or an economic report, but in the chaotic chatter of social media – now amplified by AI. This isn’t …
The government has stated that it will raise tariffs on imported steel and lower the current quota by design, to protect the domestic industry from failure. London now treats the sector as essential to national security and will no longer allow foreign suppliers, above all Chinese mills, to decide its future. From 1 July, the allowable import volume will drop …
The government has finally stopped talking and started writing cheques. Through its state-owned entity Great British Energy – Nuclear, it has signed a binding contract with Rolls-Royce SMR to begin work immediately on three small modular reactors at Wylfa on the Welsh island of Anglesey. The financial backing comes via the National Wealth Fund, which is committing up to £599 …
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Britain’s inflation problem has just got its second wind, and the numbers out this morning make for grim reading. The Consumer Prices Index jumped to 3.3% in March, up from 3% the month before, smack in line with what economists had braced themselves for but still a nasty jolt to a system that was supposed to be healing. That is …
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The talking heads of central banking have finally waded into the crypto arena, and predictably, they are swinging at the wrong target. At the recent economic shindig in Dubrovnik, we witnessed a schism that exposes the growing panic among the financial elite. On one side stands Christopher Waller of the US Federal Reserve, begrudgingly admitting that dollar-backed stablecoins are inevitable …
The American Vice President, JD Vance, has decided to grace us with his diagnosis of the British condition, and it’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. According to Vance, this “wonderful” country of ours has been so abysmally governed for so long that it now requires nothing less than a complete structural overhaul. He dropped this little bombshell in an interview with The Sunday Times, published on the 5th of July, and true to form, he didn’t hold back. It appears that from his vantage point across the pond, British politics isn’t just in a bit of a pickle; it’s apparently suffering from a systemic malaise so profound that only a root-and-branch rebuild can save it from itself. One might be forgiven for wondering if he’s confusing the United Kingdom with a failing tech startup rather than a G7 nation with centuries of institutional history, but there we are.
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Andy Burnham’s administration has unveiled what it calls “the biggest shift of power out of Whitehall and Westminster” in modern British history, but scratch the surface and this grand devolutionary gesture begins to look more like a fiscal sleight of hand. The promise is intoxicating: keep taxes where they are raised, liberate regional mayors from the stranglehold of central diktats, …
Chancellor John Healey is thinking about slapping a windfall tax on banks and oil firms in his first Budget to fill a £47bn hole in the public finances. The idea is to shield ordinary people from more austerity, but it has sparked a furious row. The Treasury is in a tight spot. Higher borrowing costs and new spending pledges have …
