Day: July 23, 2016

    To everyone’s relief, the economic impact of the Brexit vote has so far not been as bad as many – including me – feared it might be. Well, perhaps not everyone, for there is nothing quite as galling as to be proved wrong. For many of those who warned of catastrophe, a recession is still greatly to be desired – so as to punish voters for their own stupidity, as it were. This is a natural enough reaction, but it is not at all constructive, particularly when it comes to business, where success depends on the ability to adapt and respond opportunistically and optimistically to any change in circumstance. It’s still far too early to make firm judgements, obviously, and there have already been a number of not entirely welcome consequences of Brexit, not least a 10 per cent deval...

    The rocket launched with a loud bang and the sound reverberated through the air. Tim Locks faced an agonising few seconds wait before it reached its target and a cloud of dust and smoke rose from where the building had been. It was a perfect, direct hit and his comrades let out a huge cheer. Tim was on the front line in Kurdistan and inside the building had been IS jihadists, also known as Daesh . He says bluntly: “I didn’t feel anything towards the people I was killing. I had long since stopped seeing Daesh as human, so I had no empathy for them. “I may as well have been shooting rubber ducks at the fairground.” His matter-of-fact response to taking the lives of enemies is something you would expect from a man in the military. After all, they are trained to kill. But Tim ...