UK breakup: Apocalypse soon?
The doomsters are having a field day in the troubled United Kingdom. They foresee a conjunction of seismic events, if not now, then shortly. Murray Ritchie poses the question: Are they right?…
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A sovereignty crisis of a different kind
In Australia the clarion call of ‘Take back control’ has become the war cry of a re-energised republican movement. Brexiters are not amused, writes Geoff Kitney. “Reclaim out sovereignty! Take back control”….
The two phases of the coronavirus
July 17 marked the 200th day of counting the number of infections and deaths arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Dr John Egan. This count by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and…
Brexit trade wars: beware corporate America’s power
The idea that the UK after Brexit could expect to get some sort of inside running for a beneficial trade agreement with the US needs a reality check. Boris Johnson would do…
Covid conundrum: interact, produce, consume, or infect
There are early signs to suggest that a coronavirus and a steam engine have enough in common to provide a useful perspective for our economic well-being, writes Dr John Egan in part…
Brexit. Will the UK prime minister have to blink first?
Murray Ritchie poses the question: would Boris Johnson dare to walk away from the EU with no deal? Is all the talk of impending catastrophe just that? Talk? Brexit deal negotiations between…
Covid-19: All for one and one for all
In the third of a Chief-Exec.com series on the coronavirus, Dr John Egan looks at the vital role of the epidemiologist – the men and women who investigate patterns and causes of…
Covid-19: Big business fights back
There are powerful forces with deeply vested interests in ensuring that the world that existed before the pandemic is the world that emerges after it, writes Geoff Kitney. The fear factor has…
Reboot manufacturing to safeguard sovereign assets
The neoliberal assumptions that have held sway over economic policymaking for a generation must be abandoned, writes Senator Kim Carr The US and China are at each other’s throats, disrupting global supply…
How the EU confounds its critics
The European Union’s reaction to coronavirus and its economic implications continues to defy the doom merchants. In the face of the usual Eurosceptic predictions of its collapse it has proved that economics…