Jim Armitage: French don’t help Remain campaign
I can’t see too many voters being swayed to the Remain campaign by the sudden flood of support from French companies.
Even setting aside the centuries-old rivalry between our two nations, when was there any great love among Brits for our French-owned utilities, or the EDF-designed Hinkley Point white elephant?
The markets are pricing in a Remain victory. If they’re right, it won’t be thanks to the amis francais who are profiting from every privatised UK asset in sight.
Why the Google glitz?
The OTT folly of Google’s new St Pancras headquarters, with its 90-metre running track, luxury sleep pods and £17,000 sofas, would trouble me if I were a shareholder.
Tech companies are supposed to thrive on being lean and hungry.
The most revolutionary innovations have come out of dingy garages, university laboratories or cheap shared offices — not hubristic corporate comfort zones with gourmet chefs on tap.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page forged Google’s magic code for internet search results in a rented garage in Menlo Park, California. As far as I’m aware, there wasn’t a £17,000 sofa in sight.
