Insights
Britain and the EU: One year on from the Referendum
On the eve of last year’s historic referendum decision, Charles Dunstone, entrepreneurial founder of Carphone Warehouse stated confidently: ‘In my experience there are calculated risks, there are clever risks, and there are unnecessary and dangerous risks. And from all I can conclude, Brexit sits firmly in the latter camp.’
Our View – June 2017
I wonder what Benjamin Franklin, one of the great societal contributors in US history would make of civic leadership in our world today?
New Leader for a New Time…
Many have credited Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny as the only politician with the will–power to lead Ireland through the financial crisis of 2008; he was however always going to struggle to make the transition from “safe pair of hands” to “dynamic new light.”
Our View – May 2017
The great British economist John Maynard Keynes said, ‘The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones’.
Our View – March 2017
‘More mush from the Wimp’. From a different era and a very different world, this was the damning headline stamped upon Jimmy Carter’s US Presidency by the Boston Globe following another banal and vapid economic speech in 1980.
Our View – February 2017
Driving back from Dublin a couple of weeks ago I was listening to BBC Radio 4 where the host and a panel were talking about some of the world’s greatest cons.
Review of 2016
So that was the year that was, 2016 the Chinese year of the monkey. Those spirited, hairy haplorhine primates that have blue and gold, the colours of the EU, as two of their favourites and love playing practical jokes. Sure what could possibly go wrong on their watch?
Our View – November 2016
Previous cases and the reach of social media has brought more onus to ensure undue reputational damage is not inflicted on innocent people.