Trade war with the USA, can Britain afford one?
Trade talks with Sir Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump, are they real?? Civil Servants have warned that Britain may well be hit by Trump’s threatened global tariffs on what the US president calls “liberation day” on Wednesday. We will carry on talking to get the best possible deal for Britain.” Starmer, […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence is rife with contradictions. It is a powerful tool that is also surprisingly limited in terms of its current capabilities. And, while it has the potential to improve human existence, at the same time it threatens to deepen social divides and put millions of people out of work. While its inner workings are […]
BOE interest rates
The disparity between the UK’s interest rate (4.5%) and the Eurozone’s (2.5%) This can be attributed to several interrelated factors: Below info from DeepSeek, responses from Lee Green (editor of this blog) **Inflation Dynamics**: – The UK has faced persistently higher inflation, peaking at over 11% in 2022 and remaining above the Bank of […]