Notations From the Grid (Special Opening Month Edition): On Our World

   

It is the dawn of a new Month here at the Daily Outsider.     We decided to "hit the ground" running as we chose headlines over the past few weeks as Boris Johnson became UK Prime Minister, the UK Government began a "turbo-charge" effort for Brexit with profound implications.   Europe has new leadership as well as we could not agree more with the image we've headlined courtesy of the team at the Economist of London on how the structures of society is ever so challenged. 

We look forward  to our responsibility in working to help transform to change the conversation about our World. 

As the headlines underscore, we have profound challenges in our World which will be a focus of us throughout our properties: 

myFT Instant Alert Politics Will Boris Johnson lose his seat at the next general election? Labour candidate believes demographic shift means he can beat the UK prime minister JULY 28, 2019 by William Wallis in Uxbridge

myFT Instant Alert Politics Legal sector faces £3.5bn hit from no-deal Brexit, says Law Society Disorderly exit could curb lawyers’ access to European market and imperil 10,000 jobs JULY 31, 2019 by Kate Beioley

myFT Instant Alert Economy Sajid Javid to unveil £2bn extra Brexit cash for no-deal planning Pot includes £434m to stop UK running out of vital medicines and £138m information campaign JULY 31, 2019 by George Parker in London

World Vladimir Putin: the full interview The Financial Times is the first major international newspaper to be granted an interview with the Russian leader for 16 years JULY 5, 2019 by Edited by Margot Tiounine and Tom Hannen

EU Moves To Select My Leader Who Has Called For A “United States Of Europe” by jonathanturley We have previously discussed how the controversial EU President Jean-Claude Juncker has dismissed the notion of national boundaries and called nationalists "stupid."  Various countries are faced with parties seeking to exit from the European Union as the EU exercised more and more control over every aspect of life in various countries.  Rather than look for a figure to allay such concerns, the EU is moving toward a leader who has called for a United States of Europe with a single military.  Ursula von der Leyen is Angela Merkel's defence minister and was proposed by EU leaders to take over in October as the new leader in Brussels. Read more of this post The Economist today The best of our journalism, handpicked each day British foreign policy How to lose friends and not influence people A leak, a leadership race and a lame-duck prime minister expose the weaknesses of Brexit Britain’s diplomacy Biting the bullet Deutsche Bank shrinks and restructures At last, Germany’s biggest bank recognises reality doing Farewell, Syriza Kyriakos Mitsotakis sweeps to victory in Greece But can his New Democracy party overcome a history of clientelism?