Thought in the Financial Times about the Paddy Power Betfair chief quits after transforming the uk gambling industry. And there is talk in the Daily Telegraph of the women that we re Daily Telegraph of the women that were short in rio. And in the times, tesco is to stop selling disposable plastic bags in a bid to boost their profits. And in the guardian, us federal workers have been told to stop using the term Climate Change. Let us begin with the Daily Telegraph and camilla, this story about the formerjcq gchq boss telling us that children need Digital Skills to keep ahead of their rivals. Yes, the tricky waters of the Summer Holidays how much ta blet of the Summer Holidays how much tablet time can they have . This is suggesting that everyone to raise a bold, new bright and post brexit future we need our children to be online and internet savvy which i can getand online and internet savvy which i can get and accept, that is the difficulty for parents because on one hand you do not wor
did i listen? yes, all too familiar. i think gordon brown had told me it again, again and again. it is ten years after you leave the treasury that you get hired by the cbi to do this job. i think it is fair to say, isn t it, as i said at the beginning, the cbi needed to do something different, having suffered during the brexit referendum? were there some of the people around that table who are hiring who just wanted to don a t shirt and to say, we told you so? we said brexit wouldn t work, and we don t think it has. i remember my very first conversation with borisjohnson. i tried this line on him, which was a bit ballsy, but you could get away with it with boris. i said, this whole brexit thing, for us it was just business. for you, it was bigger than that, personal, sovereignty was a massive idea you had worked your whole life for. for business people,
conversation with bori5johnson. i tried this line on him, which was a bit boldly, but he could get away with it with paris. thi5 bit boldly, but he could get away with it with paris. this whole brexit thing, for us it was just business. foryou, it was brexit thing, for us it was just business. for you, it was bigger than that, personal, 5overeignty wa5 than that, personal, 5overeignty was a massive idea you had worked your whole life. the business people, it was bu5iness. would you like to wa5 bu5iness. would you like to reduce free trade and do more paperwork to which the answer was, no, why would we say yes to that? to my predecessor s credit and everybody at the cbi s credit, the moment the vote was over, they said let s get the best brexit. that moment the vote was over, they said let s get the best brexit. let s get the best brexit. that is what business let s get the best brexit. that is what business people let s get the best brexit. that is what business people say? i let
nation s capitol its first national championship since the only one it has ever won before, which was all the way back in 1924. if the nationals can win the world series, then my god, yes, in washington, d.c. anything really is possible. and if you want yet another sign from the news gods that we really should open our minds to what may have previously been unimaginable, another sheer coincidence today is that on halloween and on the day that washington woke up to its first national championship in 95 years and on the day that the house voted to move forward for only the third time in modern american history with impeachment proceedings against a sitting president, on this same day, our great allies overseas, the brits, today started their own election. because as nutty as this brexit thing is that they are going through, and as nutty as a lot of things are about british
and if you want yet another sign from the news gods that we really should open our minds to what may have previously been unimaginable, another sheer coincidence today is that on halloween and on the day that washington woke up to its first national championship in 95 years and on the day that the house voted to move forward for only the third time in modern american history with impeachment proceedings against a sitting president, on this same day, our great allies overseas, the brits, today started their own election. because as nutty as this brexit thing is that they are going through, and as nutty as a lot of things are about british politic, the brits do actually have one very, very sensible thing in their politics that i would do anything to have us dopt here, which is that they have a really strict time limit on their elections. their elections are six weeks, full stop, that s it.