Recently Primary hosted another call with the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Damien Scott to take
the pulse of innovation on the West Coast; client questions included the long-term effects of
COVID on tech, the potential for new regulations, the growth of the mobility sector and the state
of investments and valuations.
Yesterday was the second round of French regional elections, with the presidencies of all 18 regions being contested. Leslie Shaw, an economist, faculty member of the ESCP business school’s Paris campus and regular contributor on French politics writes with his interpretation of the results and what they could mean for the presidential election next year.
“Ruling party with huge majority loses by-election” is not usually a “shocker” headline. Psephological orthodoxy would have us believe that this a run-of-the-mill, routine event. The losing party usually claims “happens all the time, nothing to see here” and moves on.
In this interview with the Arlene Foster , we asked the former Northern Ireland Executive First Minister to comment on whether perceived fundamental misunderstandings of Northern Ireland’s established constitutional position within Great Britain have exacerbated tensions in unionist communities. We invited her to analyse the Biden position on the island of Ireland, and whether the NI Protocol is implementable in its current form, and how and whether invoking the Protocol’s Article 16 provisions would play out in local politics. Finally, we requested her views on what impact these variables could have on the peace dividend delivered by the Good Friday Agreement.
The UK adult social care sector has been subject to multiple promises of reform since the 1999 Sutherland report famously described existing policies at that time as “neither efficient nor fair due to the nature of the risk and the size of the sums required”.
In this report we look at how the private sector and technology innovation might positively disrupt Social Care. We note how the insurance industry has in recent years developed dedicated later life care annuity type policies. These, however, will not be accessible nor affordable to the vast majority of citizens. We consider some developing technology enabling platforms to assess if these can provide a viable solution.
