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 Reforms being considered include a new name for the body to make clear that it is not a US-style constitutional court. Source - Daily Telegraph _ 14/11/20 Link Britain's Supreme Court is facing an overhaul that could see it renamed over concerns that US-style  controversies may become routine in the UK, The Telegraph can disclose. Ministers are understood to be discussing plans to change the name of the court, cut the number of permanent judges and bring in those with "specialist" knowledge to hear individual cases. The proposals are based on concerns that Tony Blair "botched" the reforms that introduced the body, leaving it increasingly under pressure to "settle political arguments". The court, which was introduced by Mr Blair and Lord Falconer, the then Lord Chancellor, in 2005, drew the ire of senior Conservatives last year after ruling that Boris Johnson's prorogation of Parliament during a stand-off over Brexit was unlawful. At the time, the ...

 The machinery of state is far too complicated to be run by a ramshackle operation in the hands of one man. Source - Daily Telegraph Link IAIN DUNCAN SMITH 13 November 2020 • 5:45pm There is always an issue when an adviser obtains a public profile which competes with their leader. From Thomas Cromwell to Dominic Cummings, it almost always ends suddenly, but this time there is one significant difference – the public is deeply invested. Thanks to Covid, goings on in the centre of power that would once have carried little interest outside Westminster have taken on new significance. When an announcement by the Prime Minister in the afternoon can mean draconian new laws by the following day, ructions in No 10 are important enough for the public will sit up and take notice. What's more, because we are supposed to all be in it together, most people already know Dominic Cummings. Rather than some faceless backroom staffer, he is the man who chose to take his family up north during lockdown...

 UK Fintech attracted more capital and completed more deals than the next 10 European countries combined   UK tech is not just about London - Manchester is now Europe's fastest-growing tech hub   Fears that Brexit would shrink the tech talent pool have proven well wide of the mark Source - CAPX- 12/11/20 Link The English language is uniquely blessed with profanities starting with the letter ‘B’. Yet among London’s tech community, few words are dirtier than Brexit. Still, four years after the vote, the very mention of the word draws a collective grumble from converted warehouses and shared workspaces across the capital. But despite loud opposition to Brexit, the sector is absolutely booming. Take Fintech, my sector, as an example. Despite the hysteria around an impending No Deal Brexit, the sector attracted a record $4.9 billion in capital in 2019. In fact, UK Fintech attracted more capital and completed more deals than the rest of the top 10 European countries combined. T...

 The ritualistic humiliation of the FA boss confirms how insane speech-policing has become. Source - Spiked 11/11/20 Link To see how mad and unforgiving speech-policing has become in 21st-century Britain, look no further than the witch-hunting of Greg Clarke. For here we have a situation where a man was ritually shamed online, hounded out of his job and effectively cast out of polite society for a slip of the tongue. For fleetingly using an old-fashioned word. For temporarily failing to adhere to woke terminology. For that, his career has been destroyed. Clarke was chairman of the Football Association. He isn’t anymore. He was forced to step down yesterday following a ridiculous online storm about his appearance at a parliamentary select committee on diversity on Tuesday. In his comments to the committee he used the term ‘coloured footballers’. Cue meltdown. He was branded disgusting and racist. A Labour MP said his words were ‘absolutely abhorrent’. NuFootball dullards came out in...

Former Prime Minister says simply refusing SNP demands for another vote carries 'great risk'. Source - Daily Telegraph 09/11/20 Link Sir John Major has said that offering two votes on Scottish independence - including a confirmatory referendum once negotiations over separation are complete - could break an impasse over the future of the UK. In a lecture on Monday night, the former Prime Minister warned that Boris Johnson’s current strategy of refusing to allow a second referendum to take place under any circumstances could play into the SNP’s hands. Instead, he suggested that UK ministers could agree that an independence referendum takes place, but only on the condition that a second vote was later held to confirm a Yes vote so that “Scottish electors would know what they were voting for, and be able to compare it to what they now have.” Nicola Sturgeon was one of the leading voices in favour of a ‘People’s Vote’ after the UK voted to leave the EU. Although the campaign to secu...

 Peers voted by 433 to 165 to strip out the clauses which would allow the UK to renege on its obligations in the Withdrawal Agreement. Source - Daily Telegraph 10/11/20 Link The House of Lords voted resoundingly to remove controversial clauses from Boris Johnson’s Brexit legislation on Monday night, as peers accused the Government of behaving like a “third world dictatorship”. In a major defeat for the Prime Minister, peers sought to expunge sections of the Internal Market Bill which ministers admitted would break international law in a “very specific and limited way”. Peers voted by 433 to 165 to strip out the clauses which would allow the UK to renege on its obligations in the Withdrawal Agreement. During the debate, Tory grandee Lord Clarke warned that the legislation was a “rather Donald Trump-like gesture” and urged peers to join him in voting against the Government. “I’ve never heard anybody describe any particular proposal that is being forced upon us in these negotiations b...

 Historically, Britain has always welcomed goods, people, ideas and capital. Source - Daily telegraph 07/11/20 Link As a former Australian Prime Minister, my role is not to negotiate trade deals for Britain. Instead, as someone who helped to finalise deals with my country’s biggest trade partners – China, Japan and Korea – and as an adviser to the Board of Trade, my role is to champion trade, knowing that the more you trade, the more you prosper. Almost fifty years ago, Australia went through its own trade shock, losing preferential access to markets when Britain joined what was then called the European Economic Community. We coped because we produced what people wanted to buy. Obviously there were some adjustments, but essentially the Australian products that Britons had previously bought, at a good price, were then bought by others at the best price we could get for them. No one could really say that Australia suffered in the long term from Britain joining a protectionist trade b...