Government announcement of the Accord
Published on 19th May 2025
A ‘Mansion House Accord’ was announced with due fanfare on 13th May 2025 that the heads of 17 managers of UK Defined Contribution (DC) pension funds would allocate a minimum of 10% of their ‘default funds’ to unlisted companies by 2030, of which at least 5% would […]
Article from IREF website
Published on 17th May 2025
Original article published by IREF Europe on 14th May 2025
Introduction
The recent major fall in global stock markets was too large to be solely attributable to Trump’s tariffs. It is an adjustment and possibly the introduction to a period of downwards adjustments for investors. The amount of profit available […]
Express article headline on 11th May 2025
Published on 16th May 2025
Daily Express article published on 11th May 2025
The week of 5th May was a big one in the Brexit debate and a big win for the Leavers, in the form of trade deals struck with two of the world’s largest economies, the USA and India.
Of […]
13th May 2025
The UK would have been sucked further into the euro if we had stayed in the EU.
The EU – and still more the Eurozone – is a protectionist regime, with high prices and high entry barriers, created by rules and regulations directed by the state and drafted by major EU suppliers.
It is not […]
Youth unemployment – rising in your area soon!
Published on 31st March 2025
Introduction
A new offensive has been opened in Labour’s civil war against the British nation. The next group of soft targets are those well-recognized ‘enemies of the people’: the young.
Rachel Reeves used a recent appearance on Sky to read out the judgement passed on them […]
My recent comments about the release of the German Debt Brake
Published on 25th March 2025
Introduction
Ruling elites are perfectly happy to go along with constitutions, electoral systems, timing of elections and all the other paraphernalia of democracy as long it suits them and lands them or their peer group back at the controls of power.
‘Peer group’ […]
Daily Express article with my comments
Published on 17th March 2025
Introduction
The plan to remove Germany’s Debt Brake has been widely hailed as a tremendous breakthrough, wonderful for Europe and for the Eurozone.
However, the means to get it through the Parliament with the required 66% majority (as it is a change in the constitution) demonstrate that Europe’s […]
Screenshot of ECB website
Published on 13th March 2025
T2 (formerly known as TARGET2) is a systemically-important payment system and the Real-Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) for the euro. As such it should be a ‘5-nines’ system, enjoying 99.999% availability during its scheduled operating hours.
On 27th February it went down from 10:15 until 18:00 CET, according to […]
From the Government of Canada official website
11th February 2025
Introduction
The appointment of Mark Carney as Prime Minister of Canada lacks democratic legitimacy. It exemplifies emerging devices to escape accountability and bypass the voter, thereby demonstrating contempt for the voter.
Appointment not election
One device is appointment by other politicans rather than election by voters: Rishi Sunak and two […]
Annoucement of the nomenklatura appointed to direct UK payments for the state
26th February 2025
Payments is now an area in which the public policy agenda dominates
The National Payments Vision Committee and Vision Engagement Group are now in place as the forum within which the future of payments in the UK will be decided, in a process […]