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A summer of savings, or just a breeze?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has used today’s announcement of the “Great British Summer Savings” scheme to highlight several measures aimed at tackling...
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When a “world-class” vision meets reality – a lesson in communications
In March 2013, Vice Chair Karen Brady set out an ambitious vision for West Ham United’s future, tied to the move to the Olympic Stadium. Reaffirmed...
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Utility Week Live: One voice has set the agenda
At Utility Week Live in Birmingham’s NEC this morning, the queue for the opening keynote snaked around the hall – and it wasn’t for the free coffee...
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Labour’s planning reforms are starting to work. But they won’t be enough.
As the Labour government turns in upon itself, this week brings a rare sign that one of its flagship policy platforms may actually be having a...
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Starmer gets on with the job as attention shifts to Makerfield
There has been no shortage of political drama since the local elections on Thursday 7 May. Nearly 100 Labour MPs publicly declared that they have lost...
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The uncomfortable usefulness of Big Oil’s playbook
It is tempting, in corporate life, to treat geopolitics like the office fire alarm: important in theory, inconvenient in practice, and best left to...
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A new era for Wales
Over a century of Labour party dominance at the ballot box came to a spectacular end here in Wales on 7 May. As the results were announced, Labour...
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Get you two: Trump and Xi meet in Beijing
By William Brocklehurst, Managing Partner SEC Newgate China Trump and Xi met in Beijing on Wednesday for the first US presidential visit to China in...
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