Speed dating to spice up trade talks
Two courtiers – the EU and UK – are competing for Australia’s and New Zealand’s hand in a new trade relationship, Geoff Kitney writes. It must be reassuring to the Brexit crowd,…
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Brexit means Brexit – and it hurts!
British negotiators in Brussels are missing the point and will never win a good deal. Why? Because the European Union is more about politics than economics, writes Murray Ritchie. Many years ago…
Macron returns to reform
C’est la rentrée. It is the time when France sees the annual migration of its people returning from rural or maritime retreats to the great conurbations. John Egan describes a sense that…
Analysis: an Apple that just keeps on rising
Imagine Apple Inc. as a quintessentially huge machine fuelled by investment, converting labour into value and, via sales, into revenue and profit. John Egan looks beyond the data to what is happening at…
Moving on up the evolutionary scale
When challenging ideas take root old assumptions wither, writes Dave Rawlings. When popular uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East in 2010 and populations set about inventing new societies, I found…
The European project – always a work in progress
On almost every indicator that counts, Europe is undergoing a significant revival. Polls show Europeans have become more pro-European Union since Britain decided to quit the EU writes Geoff Kitney. Another European…
To benefit from ‘failing fast’, organisations must also ‘learn fast’
You’ve set a strategy to take your business into the future. You know you must experiment to move things forward. Katri Kallio offers ways to do this successfully. Europe and its many…
When it comes to sovereignty, talk is cheap
Boris Johnson may be leading the fight for Britain to reclaim its sovereignty from the EU but he is content to see Queen Elizabeth remain Australia’s head of state, writes Geoff Kitney….
New data rules for an age of hacking and the hacked
In a new legal landscape fines of up to 4 per cent of global turnover, or €20 million, are on the cards if companies fail to comply, reports James Fitzgerald. In the…
Life and politics: a war of words
Political parties create conflict, always highlighting the differences between them. There’s no political advantage in finding common ground, writes Dave Rawlings. An earlier article has looked at how each of us lives…