Giles Wilkes
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, baker of overly dense loaves.
I run five times a week so does that make me a Running Punk?
- Amazing news that the Home Office has apparently worked out how to bring hundreds of thousands of native UK workers into the care industry
- It always sounds so insightful, when governments are told they need a better story, a narrative, a stronger message... To me it sounds like an invitation to elevate the word merchants over the people who actually do things. You need Comms people but it's not the whole answer
- worrying news: Skyla has become a pirate. Better news: seems like one of the nicer sorts of pirate
- "It is hard to know how a republic is to survive such a large caucus who are loyal to their partisan team — to one man, in fact — over any rule, principle or institution of state" www.ft.com/content/aef2... Janan is right: it is no comfort that approval ratings have dropped to 39, that's HIGH!
- "A medium-size tanker or container ship made in America costs around $300m, bimco reckons, six times as much as one built in South Korea... Reshoring shipbuilding is dead in the water, sums up the chairman of a large maritime-engineering firm." www.economist.com/business/202... From The Economist
- The old global economic order is dead - on.ft.com/4k74uBq Looking part the obviousness of the headline, this is a useful clarifying piece
