New variants threaten to derail the Covid economic recovery
Even a short delay in reopening this summer could force closures as rising cases puts June 21 lockdown lifting in doubt
For festival organisers like Pete Jordan, it is squeaky bum time.
Some 20,000 music-lovers hope to flock to Jordan’s MADE Festival at the end of July with
Dry Your Eyes singer The Streets headlining.
But the rise of the newly named Delta variant that originated in India threatens to disrupt the party, as ministers mull plans to delay the economy’s full reopening on June 21.
Downing Street has said it will wait for the latest data on June 14 before deciding whether to proceed with lifting England’s lockdown the following week.
A blast of Tesla thinking can rescue high streets from terminal decline
Amazon and its rivals are reinventing shopping spaces - it s time the rest of the high street followed suit
6 June 2021 • 11:00am
A restaurant meal served to you by Tesla. Another big, glitzy Apple store that as far as anyone can tell doesn’t seem to be selling anything. And a haircut delivered by Amazon.
There are lots of traditional industries that, so far at least, have largely been untouched by any form of technological disruption. Music, publishing, television, and more recently groceries, transport, and finance, have seen wave after wave of transformation. Many others have remained largely unchanged since the 1950s or even the 1900s. But that is about to change.
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@Ver Cr: We all know that businesses make decisions based on a range of factors including, (but not limited to, tax regime, social policies that include the ease of hiring and firing, access to markets, cost of manufacture and selling, cultural alignment, interest rates and general economic outlook, among others. Brexit was only ever a period of uncertainty. Businesses hate uncertainty (as do mortgage buyers) and so the threats to go or stay were only ever a way to increase leverage and competitive advantage over the government.