Risky business: UBS warns that tax on billionaires will kill off risk appetite November 20, 2019 Billionaires will stop taking risks and sit on their money if they face blockbuster wealth taxes being proposed by left-wing politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, a top UBS banker for the super-rich has warned. Josef Stadler, who heads up the ultra high net worth division at the Swiss bank, has claimed that billionaires [...]
Party leaders bid to charm top bosses at CBI bash November 19, 2019 The election campaign intruded on the CBI’s annual conference yesterday, making the event even more political and even less about business than it otherwise would have been. That said, the topics slotted into the agenda around the political speeches focused mostly on climate change, inequality, profit with purpose (Justin Welby was on stage for that) [...]
Corbyn takes Brexit policy to Essex as PM demands answers on Labour’s second referendum November 5, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn is heading to one of the most pro-Leave parts of the country as he attempts to take on the Conservatives over Brexit. The Labour leader will today tell voters in Harlow, Essex that he will “get Brexit sorted within six months” through a second referendum with the choice of either remaining in the [...]
PM Boris Johnson to ask Parliament for December 12 election October 24, 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to call for an election to take place on 12 December. Johnson, who has already sought to go to the polls twice, is expected to bring forward a motion under the Fixed Term Parliament Act this afternoon, as the Queen’s Speech is concluded. If Johnson attempts the FTPA route, there [...]
General Election 2019: Lib Dems squeezed in London as Labour starts to fight back December 3, 2019 London’s swing voters are beginning to return to a resurgent Labour, with the Liberal Democrats starting to fade away, a new poll published today has revealed. Jeremy Corbyn’s party has clawed back eight points since November, to 47 per cent, while the Conservatives edged up one point to 30 per cent, according to a YouGov [...]
A lesson in cognitive dissonance for the Corbynites December 18, 2019 Behavioural economics — which extends the ability of economics to explain the world — has become very fashionable. Richard Thaler, Nobel Prize winner for his work in this area, observed that most of the time, the rational choice model of standard economics works well. People gather information on the various alternatives open to them, and [...]
Liberal Democrat Sam Gyimah reported to police over comments about Grenfell November 18, 2019 A Labour election candidate has reported Tory-turned-Liberal Democrat Sam Gyimah to the police over “inaccurate and dangerous” allegations about her role in the Grenfell. Emma Dent Coad – a Jeremy Corbyn ally who won Kensington and Chelsea in 2017 – has made the complaint after Gyimah told City A.M. that she and other Kensington Council [...]
Labour refuses to rule out unlimited EU immigration in Brexit deal November 10, 2019 Labour’s election coordinator has refused to deny the party would continue to allow uncontrolled immigration from the EU in its prospective Brexit deal. Labour’s Brexit policy, if it wins the election, is to negotiate a new deal with the EU and put it to the public in a confirmatory referendum. Read more: SNP leader Nicola [...]
General Election 2019: Labour figures meet to finalise manifesto November 16, 2019 Labour officials will meet later today to finalise the party’s manifesto ahead of December’s general election. The party has already unveiled a number of policies and on Thursday announced it would part-nationalise telecomms giant BT in a bid to provide free full-fibre broadband for all. However, there are some areas in which Labour is yet [...]
Jordan B Peterson interview: The unlikely conservative superstar March 1, 2021 As Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order is released, we revisit our 2018 interview with the unlikely conservative superstar, discussing the high price of fame, causing offence and that interview with Cathy Newman. ••• Professor Jordan B Peterson’s apartment smells of meat. It’s 8am and his wife, Tammy, is fastidiously slicing a pile of steaks, [...]