May is right about reforming capitalism - FT.com

Women in a position of power from 2016 to 2020 if not 2030 will be important for sure, in the UK, Scotland, USA and UN, lets see!!

May is right about reforming capitalism - FT.com

Watch President Barack Obama Full Speech At The DNC 2016 - YouTube

Worth seeing him speak about the past and the future as well as Hillary!




Watch President Barack Obama Full Speech At The DNC 2016 - YouTube

2016 part 1

Well with COP21 and www.globalgoals.org kicking in 2016 was always going to be historic for the right reasons.


We also need to keep an eye on 2016 for the wrong reasons:


Russia and Drugs
Brazil and corruption
Turkey and democracy
USA presidential election
EU and its ability to move beyond Brexit


I wonder which will prove most pivotal!

Global elites must heed the warning of populist rage - FT.com

The over use of the world populist, nationalist, etc etc

perpetuates the problem! Political narrative and discourse instead of common sense get on with the job!

Global elites must heed the warning of populist rage - FT.com

The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists - Vox

Over next 5 yrs it'll be interesting to track science for global health and poverty reasons but also the brexit debate.

The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists - Vox

The man who put Pokémon Go on the map - FT.com#axzz4ET8Cuf8P

Augmented reality offers so mych more in terms of social good around the world. At least the learning is starting with scale.




The man who put Pokémon Go on the map - FT.com#axzz4ET8Cuf8P

Intergenerational social mobility: a Europe wide picture – 3RD INTERNATIONAL ESS CONFERENCE

Interesting!




Social mobility
Low in Italy & Hungary
High in Slovenia, Estonia, & UK




Intergenerational social mobility: a Europe wide picture – 3RD INTERNATIONAL ESS CONFERENCE

Theresa May vows corporate crackdown on ‘privileged few’ - FT.com

A lot of the issues here are real ones, let see how it plays out now that she is the only candidate and effectively shoe horned into no.10!




Theresa May vows corporate crackdown on ‘privileged few’ - FT.com

EU budget: the post-Brexit challenges for London and Brussels - FT.com#axzz4DRa1SNhl?ftcamp=engage/social_promo/b2cengaged/google/brexitcrm2016/crm

You can feel the narrative changing in the press and EU already, especially when you read the first and last paragraphs of so many cutting now!




EU budget: the post-Brexit challenges for London and Brussels - FT.com#axzz4DRa1SNhl?ftcamp=engage/social_promo/b2cengaged/google/brexitcrm2016/crm

Brexit barometer: Leave vote hits the high street - FT.com#axzz4DdNJkX7c#axzz4DdNJkX7c#axzz4DdNJkX7c

Some interesting indicators to keep track of over the next two or three years!




Brexit barometer: Leave vote hits the high street - FT.com#axzz4DdNJkX7c#axzz4DdNJkX7c#axzz4DdNJkX7c

Renzi ready to defy Brussels and bail out Italy’s troubled banks - FT.com#axzz4DQj4oYkn

While the FUD of project fear and a few cases of buyers-redemption has rattled around in the UK press for a week, the news is rolling to the adjustment or otherwise that Eruope will make in the face of the EU. Interesting time!

Renzi ready to defy Brussels and bail out Italy’s troubled banks - FT.com#axzz4DQj4oYkn

"The threat has raised alarm among Europe’s regulators, who fear such a brazen intervention would devastate the credibility of the union’s newly implemented banking rule book during its first real test. In the race to find workable solutions, Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition chief, has laid out options for Rome to address its banking problems without breaking the bail-in principles of Europe’s banking union.  

Italy is the eurozone’s biggest vulnerability following the shock outcome of the UK vote to leave the EU, with bank stocks plunging by a third. Concerns are building before the outcome of bank stress test results due this month and a constitutional referendum in Italy in early October, on which Mr Renzi has wagered his job. Citi has described the referendum as “probably the single biggest risk on the European political landscape this year outside the UK”.







http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc4028fa-411f-11e6-b22f-79eb4891c97d.html#axzz4DQj4oYkn

"But Mr Juppé said he did not foresee any concrete action from the 27 remaining EU leaders this year, especially with elections in France and Germany next year. Paralysis, he said, risks emboldening the anti-EU populist parties."