Kate Baldwin, Parliament Street’s comment editor, looks at how ICO fines will decimate companies that haven’t met the minimum requirements of GDPR. There’s been a significant amount of turbulence around how European laws, regulations and directives will proceed post-Brexit. As exit discussions continue, the Government is naturally keeping its cards to its chest. One of the few things that the […]
Afghanistan has been a policy dilemma for 16 years now and it seems that US strategy is unable to reach the level of creativity or nuance necessary to inflict lasting damage on the Taliban and ISIL in the country. Last night, President Trump announced an increase in the troop-presence in Afghanistan without referencing a specific number, though several generals have […]
By Elizabeth Anderson We live in a bubble. By which I mean, I suspect the majority of people who read this blog will be degree educated, politically active (or at least politically aware), and more likely than not, in or around London. For us, a bachelors or even a masters is a given – it’s quite simply what people do. […]
On Tuesday 8th August 2017, Parliament Street’s C.E.O. Patrick Sullivan, was a guest panellist, on the pilot episode of London Live Debate. Patrick spoke about the responsibilities social media had to ensure they didn’t host content that could incite gang violence and also, about the rising crime levels in the capital.
On Thursday 27th July 2017, Parliament Street’s Director of Financial Services, Tim Focas was a guest on the James Whales show on talkradio.co.uk. In a lively interview, Tim defended last year’s vote to leave the Europe and discussed the benefits of Britain being able to control its own borders. Clarification: Parliament Street has no corporate view on Brexit, although the […]
by Elizabeth Anderson It takes a lot for a political speech to really inspire and impress me these days – I’ve heard or read a lot of speeches. Michael Gove’s speech on a Green Brexit was one of those speeches that impressed me. I have always loved the countryside, and as a consequence of this, which grew from a love […]
by Kate Baldwin Entitlement is a challenge for us all. We all have our expectations for having things in a certain way that we’ve grown accustomed. And we don’t like when those things are taken away. The latest explosion of entitled angry white men has been around the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the next Dr Who. A role, which […]
Thursday 13th July 2017 Parliament Street’s Director of Financial Services, Tim Focas has been interviewed by Contexte, the Journal of French and European Public Policies.Tim spoke about the performance of David Davis, as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. You can read his thoughts here. Alternatively, we have reprinted the article in English and French, below: French version […]
By Tim Focas, director of Financial Services at Westminster think tank Parliament Street Another day in Westminster, and another clutch of politicians who still cannot accept the result of the referendum. Andy Slaughter, Catherine West and Ruth Cadbury. No, me either until Jeremy Corbyn sacked them last week after they voted in favour of Britain remaining within the Customs Union and […]
It should come as no surprise that European leaders, from the national level to Brussels, were paying very close attention to the general election in the UK last Thursday. The likes of Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Paolo Gentiloni, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk were of course very interested in how Theresa May fared in a self-imposed referendum on how her […]
