Business
Total 61 Posts
Why businesses embrace populists and what to do about it – Lessons from Hungary.
5 min read
Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
The other benefits of working from home.
2 min read
It is surely only a matter of time before the owners of Pret see the value in closing 5,000 stores and buying 10,000 small vans to tour housing estates instead.
The Brexit screw tightens.
11 min read
In his Brexit analysis Professor Chris Grey looks at freeports, chemical regulations, whether there is any good news (Japan FTA? Northern Ireland?), why the Iain Duncan Smith story matters, and the brain drain and other consequences of the culture war.
Summer statement: Rishi Sunak goes all out for jobs, leaving public finances for another day.
5 min read
Boris Johnson says he wants to get on top of the UK’s productivity problem, but the job measures in the summer statement could take the country in the opposite direction.
Summer statement: Tory benefits policy under coronavirus is finally beginning to help the poorest.
5 min read
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds was understandably sceptical of Rishi Sunak’s claims to be “helping the poorest the most”, but Tories are moving in the right direction.
Boris Johnson: After F* business, it’s now F* people.
2 min read
Defining Boris Johnson in just 5 consecutive questions asked at Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions.
Extension is the Brexiters’ chance to show they accept that they won.
11 min read
Professor Chris Grey’s latest analysis on calls for extension, analysis of why business hasn’t had more influence, and how extension isn’t Remain’s last stand but Leave’s first post-Brexit challenge.