Is Investing in Palm Oil a Slippery Slope? Palm Oil is contained within half of all packaged goods that can be bought in your local […]
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The Welsford Report – Plastic in the Food Chains – September 2017
Plastic waste has in recent years become a big topic in public debate, due in part to a growing number of reports about the pollution of our oceans and soil. An estimated 100,000 tonnes of plastic has made its way into the world’s oceans and it is thought to pose a huge risk to the food chain. The potential environmental impact of this phenomenon is only just beginning to be understood, but harrowing images of seabirds with stomachs full of plastic and turtles with plastic straws embedded in their nasal cavities are becoming commonplace on many of our social media news feeds. It is an undeniable truth that non-recyclable plastic packaging poses a serious risk to the environment and the sustainable future of life on earth.
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Keynotes January 2016 – The Bear In Room
Since April 2015 the ‘Share Bear’ has been knocking on the door. A ‘Bear’ in Stock Market terms is the downward trending of share prices. People […]
Continue readingElection Update – Brexit or Scotexit – Oui au Non?
The best Conservative election victory in 20 years brings a Tory majority for the next UK Parliament but casts doubt over our continued membership of […]
Continue reading2015 – The Last Osborne Budget? We look at the Main Positives and consider a Few Negatives
A pre-election budget and its accompanying budget speech, is often amongst the most interesting of government communications, seeking to balance not only the books but […]
Continue readingKeynotes Winter 1997 – Ken Clarke’s Magic Budget – Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
we thought you would like to see the second ever Keynotes produced back during the winter of 1996/97. The two page newsletter examined the last budget of the Conservative Government under John Major and challenged the common misperception of the previous eighteen years of Tory rule as an era of low taxation. It is worth the effort to read, despite the poor quality,
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