Category Archives: UK

Controversial ‘Spy Tech’ Firm Palantir Lands £23m NHS Data Deal

Exclusive: UK government sneaks through new NHS COVID data contract, despite legal challenges.

Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas

“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.

Brexit: End of the Line

Even with the EU giving as much Brexit time as it can, December 31 is coming.

Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?

The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.

Macroeconomics, Money (MMT Style) and Post-Brexit Recovery, All in One Twitter thread

Money, lending, government spending, QE….all explained in one tidy post!

It’s Time to Break Up Britain

The Tories’ shambolic, self-serving rule has stoked interest in Britain breakaways by Scotland and even Wales and the North. But are they viable?

Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied

Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.

Privatized Regulators and Corrupt Corporations Caused Deadly Grenfell Tower Fire, Now Threaten Collapse of UK Housing Market through “Cladding Crisis”

Tne Grenfell Tower Inquiry digs up some gruesome corporate dealing, plus the UK’s property market could seize up.

Brexit: Stumbling

More Brexit posturing, but also some hardening of positions when both sides would need to give to get a deal.

Brexit: The Barnier Cliff

December 31 is a Barnier deadline too.

This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong

As Banco Sabadell’s disastrous acquisition of UK TSB has shown, a bank merger can founder due to botched IT integration.

Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

Little Brexit motion and less progress as the clock runs.

Brexit: Decisions

The Brexit trade talks illustrate that not deciding amounts to a decision.

Peat: Superhero of the Biosphere, in Need of Global Protection (and Yours)

Drained peatlands and peat fires emit around 10% of our greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land-use change and forestry, yet there seems to be little effort to prevent this.