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• Germans Say Brexit Worsening Trade With UK | Financial Tribune - Financial Tribune

  30-07-2017 21:34
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  Brexit is already damaging Germany's trade with the UK and it is set to get worse, the European...en meer »
  
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• Tory MP and former minister speaks out against tax increases

  30-07-2017 18:11 via theguardian.com
  Robert Halfon warns of impact to working families as chancellor Philip Hammond reportedly considers more levies on fuel, food and pensionsA Tory MP and former minister who has been a cheerleader for so-called “blue-collar Conservatism” has warned against any tax rises that would hit working families.Robert Halfon spoke out after it emerged that the chancellor, Philip Hammond, was considering additional levies on fuel, homes and pension relief as a way of plugging the hole in public f
  
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• Greek debt crisis: ‘People can’t see any light at the end of any tunnel’

  30-07-2017 17:03 via theguardian.com
  The Greek government says the country has turned a corner, but that is not the experience of people on the ground“The worst is clearly behind us.” Panaghiota Mourtidou pondered the words with a gravity unusual for the jovial volunteer. Even now, several days after the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, saw fit to use the phrase, she still feels somewhat bewildered. “Politicians clearly have no idea of the reality on the ground,” she said. “If they did, they would
  
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• Slow economic growth is not the new normal, it's the old norm | Larry Elliott

  30-07-2017 11:58 via theguardian.com
  Only after the second world war did average growth top 2%. We must prepare for a fight to benefit from meagre spoilsThere have been periods in the past in which the Bank of England has left interest rates unchanged for a long time. In 1719, official borrowing costs were raised from 4% to 5%, where they remained during the South Sea bubble, the seven years’ war, the loss of the American colonies, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. In 1822, Seven years after the Battle of Waterlo
  
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• Why I revisited every place I’ve ever lived

  30-07-2017 11:00 via theguardian.com
  From Swansea semi to London bedsit, Jude Rogers has called many places home. For a new radio series, she decided to ‘time‑travel’ through them all – a journey that stirred both memories and emotionsWhen I was 18, just before I left home, I used to repeat a peculiar, magical ritual. I’d borrow my mum’s car, set off from the house where we’d lived since I was five and drive to another house two miles up the road. I’d turn the corner into the cul-de-s
  
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• Plastic packaging peeves: share your photos with us

  30-07-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  We want to see your examples of the businesses getting it right and wrong when it comes to packaging‘Ditch plastic straws’ – experts and campaigners on how to cut plastic wasteLily Cole is fed up with single-use plastic bottles and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been accosting takeaway coffee drinkers in the street as part of his war on waste. But what drives you mad when it comes to excess packaging? Whether it’s online shopping swamped in unnecessary bubble wrap, plast
  
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• 'Ditch plastic straws' – experts and campaigners on how to cut plastic waste

  30-07-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  From Lily Cole to Dame Ellen MacArthur – experts and campaigners on what more needs to be done to reduce plastic wastePlastic packaging peeves: share your photos with usMarks & Spencer has redesigned and repackaged more than 140 best-selling products to cut plastic use, saving 75 tonnes of packaging a year in the process.But are retailers and manufacturers doing enough? What more could and should they be doing? We asked a range of packaging experts and campaigners. Here’s what th
  
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• Why has Flybe put its cheap student luggage deal on hold?

  30-07-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  My son does about six flights a year but the offer was a no-go out of SouthendMy son is a student in the Dutch city of Groningen which, after Amsterdam, has the highest student population in the Netherlands (it has two universities and there are more than 50,000 students, with half of the population being under 35). He flies there at the end of August for the start of the academic year and returns in late June/early July for the summer holidays; he also makes a return trip at Christmas and Easte
  
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• Serco’s boss suffers through his wilderness years

  30-07-2017 07:59 via theguardian.com
  Rupert Soames, like his illustrious grandparent, knows what it means to wait for the country to turn to himThe Churchill family has a proud tradition of assuming it will be called to serve – and then being ignored. It happened to Winston either side of the second world war and, in his own sphere, grandson Rupert Soames looks to be receiving some similar treatment.Soames, of course, runs the embattled outsourcing giant Serco – which many think would not now exist had he not come to sa
  
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• Labour used to be the party that saw the folly of leaving the EU

  30-07-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Harold Wilson was not a Europhile, but a clear-eyed realist. Jeremy Corbyn could learn much from the story of the 1975 referendumWhat have David Cameron (Tory prime minister, 2010-16), and Harold Wilson (Labour prime minister, 1964-70 and 1974-76) got in common?Answer: in order to keep their respective parties together, because they were split over “Europe”, each of them called a referendum. Wilson triumphed, and went down in history as a consummate politician, indeed statesman. Came
  
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