Joy of tax / Shinzo Abe / live event
💰 Conservative Party leadership contenders on tax
🇯🇵 Shinzo Abe tribute
😊 To make you smile …
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Freddie Fforde is our speaker on Wednesday 3rd August hosted in Selkirk pub, Tooting, from 730, with the interview starting at 8.
Freddie’s company Patch is one of the most interesting companies in the future of work space, as he focuses on ‘decentralised workspace’.
He has raised some money from some serious A-players like Robin Klein (co-founder of LocalGlobe), Matt Clifford (co-founder of Entrepreneur First), Camilla Dolan (founding partner of sustainable investor Eka Ventures), Zoe Jervier (talent director for U.S. investment firm Sequoia).
You can read the piece on the fundraise in Techcrunch
It is a trial before I expect to sell out Wembley next year 😂 😂
The link to purchase is available here.
💰 Conservative Party leadership contenders on tax.
Graham Ruddick has done a superb round up of what the various Conservative Party leadership candidates have said so far on tax in his Sunday press review. You can check it out below.
In the most monumental week in British politics, it is worth taking the time to go through Tim Shipman’s very long read on what happened throughout the week. It is worth the monthly Times subscription in its own right.
Includes amazing detail such as what Johnson wrote in a first draft of the speech:
One section that was cut highlighted his belief that he had been brought down by MPs wavering in the face of media introspection. “There is still part of me that thinks that if we could have turned off Twitter and sent the MPs off to the beach, we could have sorted this out and gone on to thrash Labour at the next election,” he would have said.
We’ll be discussing the power of political and business speeches in a new notebook very soon
Credit also to Chris Ship at ITN, who dug up this wonderful clip of Nadhim Zahawi talking with Jeffrey Archer and his teletubbies business.
🇯🇵 Shinzo Abe tribute
The shocking news of Shinzo Abe’s assassination is a stark reminder of the risks politicians or anyone in public life faces, after all it was only last year, Sir David Amess was killed in the UK.
I met Abe a number of times through various Prime Ministerial trade trips and I was struck by how despite the very differing cultures of Japan and the UK. He had an amazing ability to build instant connections and make people smile. It was very Bill Clinton-esque. It was particularly impressive when a lot of the conversation takes place with translators.
He had the brainpower to match the charisma though, and is one of a few politicians to have coined a phrase behind him and his policies in ‘Abenomics’. Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism is one of the rare other examples of this.
The Japan Times has a of the impact of Abeonomics here.
A fitting tribute from Nasdaq Exchange below, RIP.
😊 To make you smile …
I loved this video that Scott Bryan posted, we’ve all been there … but probably not in front of millions on the TV and social media …
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