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News
- Business leaders accuse Labour leader of demonising the private sector(Independent)
- Uber seeks talks with London mayor to renew licence (BBC) while Uber challenger Via has waited months for a licence from TfL but is raring to launch (CityAM)
- Concern at scale of peer-to-peer lender’s defaults (Telegraph)
- Companies still confused by apprenticeship levy (Economia cover BCC polling that shows one in four businesses do not know how the levy works)
- Government denies business rates appeal system isn’t working despite slew of complaints (Telegraph)
- Shoreditch is the world’s most expensive tech district (London Loves Business covers Knight Frank Global Cities report)
Opinion
- Britain’s voters have turned against the market (Robert Colvile, editor, CapX comments on Legatum Institute’s report, ‘Public opinion in the post-brexit era: economic attitudes in modern Britain‘)
- The business world fears Jeremy Corbyn – for good reason (Christian May, editor, CityAM)
- Why is business ignoring Corbyn’s threats? (Maggie Pagano, Reaction.life)
- Children are showing the kind of entrepreneurial spirit we mustn’t ignore(Sarah Willingham, entrepreneur and former Dragons’ Den investor)
- Budding entrepreneurs deserve a crash course in leadership (Emma Jones, founder, Enterprise Nation)
- Why the public’s love affair with Silicon Valley may be over (Mike Elgan, Fast Company)
- The gig economy needs rules but don’t regulate it to death (Simon Jenkins, Evening Standard)
Features
- Reaction: The case for capitalism must be made afresh (written by Roger Scruton)
- Economist: American entrepreneurship is flourishing, if you know where to look
- Fast Company: Inside Dubai’s bid to become the Middle East’s tech tub
- The Atlantic: Why does Sweden have so many startups?