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News
- Champion British business instead of talking us down, CBI president tells politicians (Telegraph)
- UK tech is surging past the rest of the economy amid Brexit worries (UK Tech News covers Tech Nation 2018 report)
- Lords to review Bribery Act over its burden on SMEs (FT)
- Deliveroo spends £5m dishing up own dining brands (Evening Standard)
Opinion
- Making Britain a tech success means looking outside London (Matthew Hughes, journalist, The Next Web)
- Demographic trends in developed countries are a threat to entrepreneurship and therefore prosperity (Steven Globerman and Jason Clemens, editors, ‘Demographics and entrepreneurship: Mitigating the effects of an ageing population’)
- Regulation is a double-edged cutlass threatening a generation of pirate entrepreneurs (Andrew Wolfin, partner, Mishcon de Reya)
- The government must end the madness of skilled migrant quotas (John Ashmore, deputy editor, CapX)
- Being driven and focused is a blessing, but entrepreneurs need to learn to switch off (Charlie Mullins, founder, Pimlico Plumbers)
Features
- City AM: The swashbuckling author of Be More Pirate is teaching entrepreneurs how to be maritime buccaneers
- The Atlantic: MIT now has a humanist chaplain to help students with the ethics of tech
- Forbes: As Brexit looms, UK Angels Association urges investors and SMEs to think global
- Government Digital Service: The first GovTech Fund competition (to identify Daesh propaganda) is now live and open for applications