Mihir Sharma is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. He focuses on business and economics, with particular emphasis on economic policy, energy, and regional interests across Asia and the Pacific. Mihir's insights have been featured in prominent outlets including NDTV, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg-Quint.
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By: Mihir Sharma
Last week, Keir Starmer proudly told an audience of engineers and investors at a London tech conference that the UK was “the third largest technology economy in the world,” and that half of all startup investment in Europe flowed to Britain.
By: Mint
The British government seems torn as it tries to balance disparate views on it. However, it cannot muddle along for too long. At some point or another, its ‘special’ ties with the US will probably intervene, forcing it to attain clarity.
Keir Starmer’s British government has been cursed with a long to-do list on which almost every bullet point is deeply unpopular. A ban on social media for teens, on the other hand, is uncomplicatedly supported by the public. The relief was discernible in the prime minister’s voice when he said it would “give children their childhood back.”
When Narendra Modi met Donald Trump at the G7 last week — their first face-to-face meeting in 16 months — the atmosphere appeared very chummy. Modi praised Trump’s peace initiatives, while the president in turn had some embarrassingly fulsome praise for the Indian leader: “He is the most beautiful man, like an angel.”
Andy Burnham’s apparently inexorable march down to London from the North is quite unusual for Britain, even if the country has changed its prime ministers more often than is wise in recent years.
In 1999, Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew was asked what he thought the most influential innovation of the past millennium had been. His answer? Air-conditioning. It had transformed the lives of people in his equatorial city-state as well as all others in hot climates, he argued. It made modern civilization possible.
Regulatory autonomy should never be taken for granted, especially by central banks. Next year the Bank of England will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its independence. If it does not want to see that hard-won sovereignty undermined or constrained, it should pay closer attention to a groundswell of criticism about its bond sales.
One of the extraordinary things about the UK — a matter of no particular note to those born there, but startling to those who are not — is the postcode. The combination of letters and numbers that identifies a dozen or so adjacent addresses is far more granular than its equivalents elsewhere, and is a testament to the efficiency of the British state machinery and its ability to reach every corner of the nation when it tries.
Andy Burnham needs to recognize the main reason that he is going to be the UK’s next prime minister: He is not Keir Starmer. The man currently in No. 10 has tied himself to a manifesto that won him a landslide in 2024. Burnham should worry about what might win in 2029.
There is no surer indication that a government is running out of spending money than ministers casting a covetous eye over pension funds.
