Matthew Brooker
Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion
@opinion columnist, CFA holder. Slough-born, three decades in Hong Kong and China. Opinions mine. On threads as matthew_brooker
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Matthew Brooker
Labour is as fractured and conflicted when it comes to China as the Conservatives were. British Steel Ltd. is once again a ward of the state. Parliament was recalled to sit on a Saturday for the first time since Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982, so that members could pass legislation enabling Keir Starmer’s Labour government to take control of the company from China’s Jingye Group.
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2 weeks ago |
japantimes.co.jp | Matthew Brooker
Britain can brace itself for another scolding from U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Last week, a second anti-abortion activist was convicted of breaching a protest buffer zone outside a clinic, the same offense that prompted Vance to accuse the U.K. of backsliding on free speech in his February address to the Munich Security Conference. The Veep is right that Britain’s climate for free expression is deteriorating — he just picked the wrong case to illustrate the point.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Matthew Brooker
Pay attention or prepare to be next. Graffiti warning of the global threat to freedom from China’s Communist Party appeared on walls around Hong Kong during the protests of 2019. It was a prescient message, though not for the reasons the spray-painters might have imagined. Five years after the city’s democracy movement was crushed, authoritarianism is rising around the world — but in most cases the threat is coming from within.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Matthew Brooker
The British government is considering nationalization as a solution to the steel industry’s woes. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity, the management theorist Peter Drucker wrote. An activity can be worthwhile and create value for society without producing net income. We’re surrounded by examples: No one expects the police, the fire service or social workers to deliver a return on capital.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Matthew Brooker
12 hours agoVideo captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos. In a video posted to X Wednesday (9 April), the president introduced NASCAR drivers to the founder and chairman of Charles Schwab Corporation, a multinational financial services company. “It’s not just a company, it’s actually an individual,” Trump told the racing drivers.
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