#FRANCE: Spring in bloom and worry for the tea fleet. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow Occitanie.

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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#UK: The poisonous language in Parliament. @RealConstable, Occitanie @BatchelorShow

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Forbes.com: Germany’s Latest Challenge To Its Economy: Boosting Military Spending

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Finally, Germany is going to hit its military spending target. But it’s doing so amid a brutal recession that isn’t expected to end any time soon.

In short, it means that the country will be cash-strapped, experts say. Read more here.

The “red fighter aircraft” _Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, 

with his red-painted three-decker. 

Vitold Muratov scan, digitalisation., 

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Forbes.com: Is Britain’s Political Chaos Set To Cause An Economic Slump?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

By looking at UK newspaper headlines, you might think the country is in political chaos. There may be some truth to that claim, but it’s less uncertain than it has been for years.

It matters because uncertainty around government policy tends to slow growth. Read more here.

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Forbes.com: Shocker: Car Parking In Scotland’s Capital To Cost Over Half Yearly Pay

By SIMON CONSTABLE

As if things weren’t bad enough for Scotland’s capital city already, Edinburgh City Council is imposing a new diabolic rule. At least, it is diabolical for the city’s already ailing economy. Read more here.

Seattle Municipal Archives , CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Forbes.com: Get Ready For A Stockmarket Roller Coaster As U.S. Dollar Swings

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The U.S. dollar has a lot to answer for when it comes to U.S. stock market returns. So a forecast that promises a significant dollar rally followed by a dive should be enough to turn the stomachs of some investors. Read more here.

 

forbes.com: Red Sea Attacks On Shipping Brings Another Pinch To Britain - A Tea Shortage

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The widening war in the Middle East is delivering an economic pinch to the UK, a country already in a technical recession. Worse still, there’s a shortage of the country’s favorite drink. Read more here.

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#UK: #FRANCE: Occitanie Springtime; Higher taxes in Britain despite the slowdown @BatchelorShow @RealConstable

By SIMON CONSTABLE

What economic mess have the UK and Germany descended into? It takes talent to be so bad.

John Batchelor and I discuss the problems and welcome in the spring.

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Le Mont Saint-Michel.

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Korn Ferry: Red Alert for UK’s Smaller Firms

By SIMON CONSTABLE

More than 50,000 mostly smaller firms are in financial distress. What happened, and how they can best recover. Read more here.

#ANTISEMITISM: Labour Party unacceptable candidate for the By-election in Rochdale, UK @RealConstable @BatchelorShow

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The Manchester public free libraries; a history and description, and guide to their contents and use

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John and I discuss the disaster that the UK-based left-leaning Labour Party is fast becoming.

In the wake of the shambolic Conservative Party’s [performance lately, it would have seemed that Labour would easily win a landside in an election that is expected by the end of this year. All that Labour needed to do was nothing.

Unfortunately for the leader Sir Kier Starmer that hasn’t happened. Instead the ghost of former party leader Jeremy Corbyn is back. Under Corbyn’s leadership the party was accused of broad antisemitism within the rank and file of MPs. 

Now new allegations have emerged that hatred of jews is alive and apparently thriving within the party. 

Already the lead that Labour had over the Conservative Party in recent polls has dipped by seven percentage points.

#S&L Crisis: #KEATNG5: Recalling 35 years since scandal, debt, prison. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow @WSJ

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Korn Ferry: The Disappearing Tech Unicorns

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

The UK’s dream of becoming a tech-world capital has hit a bump. But why? Read more here.

WSJ: Financial Flashback -- George HW Bush Bails Out the Savings and Loan Industry in 1989

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Exclusively published in the Print Edition of The Wall Street Journal

#FRANCE: #CEOS: Three choices for a new CEO: insider, outsider, hybrid. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow @WSJ

By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Paris 1914

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