Good morning. Not long to go before the queen arrives here in that traditional carriage procession the start of a new procession of parliament but the new we know is 11 months so theres hardly any time to start an ambitious new program of legislation. Having said that there are some interesting and significant items in the list of bills were expecting today and we will be talking about those in due course. We also put the thing in the wider political context following the recent local and european elections which saw the rise raising new questions for other party leaders. Plenty for David Cameron about. He left number 10 about a half hour ago. It is of course the Coalitions Program of government being announced today. The other bit of the coalition as the deputy Prime Minister also left within the last 45 minutes or so on his way to the houses of parliament. No words from them yet but we have had some word from labe ours ed millband. We heard of the election the depth of discontent the
Delivering her speech at the british parliament. That, the u. S. And European Response to russian intervention and ukraine. Then a discretion about the future of the european economy. Now if you wait until it shows up, the cheaper alternative, you have waited too long. It is better and less expensive. In the case of our navigation example, you have Something Like tomtom and garmin. They knew the smartphone was taking off. They understood it was possible could launch else a navigation app. But they said we dont see any threat yet. Who will respond when it shows up. It did responded it took off. Within months there were millions of people who liked it, but it was better and cheaper. By then it was too late for them to respond. We think incumbent businesses need to start looking much earlier at the lifecycle of new technology and recognize that even before it is a product, there will be a lot of experiments going on. Crowd funding platforms allow you to see how people are playing with new
The British Medical Association is going cap-in-hand to members asking them to donate towards a £100,000 strike fund . - despite making a profit of almost £11 million in 2021.