Dry Brexit Day and an artistic HBN Out and About

LunaPic interpretation of photo of poppy heads

Like the dried poppy heads, today was a dried up Brexit news day with only three items of note. The first and second were news of Easyjet planning on setting up a separate base in Austria, and Barclays looking to expand its presence in Ireland. These are the practical steps that many other companies trading in Europe are contemplating as this will allow them to continue to do business there after Brexit. 

The third was a statement that Lord Adonis, the Labour peer and ex-minister who now chairs the Government's National Infrastructure Commission. He stated today that if the country was to do a hard Brexit, "then I do believe this will be the worst mistake this country has made since the 1930s," stating elsewhere that this was a similarly large mistake to appeasement at the time. Conservatives MPS are baying for his removal from the Commission he heads.

Joined in a small delegation from HBN on our monthly Out and About visit, this time to the offices of Dame Evelyn Glennie, solo percussionist. It was fascinating to learn how Evelyn and her team rewrote the rules of how an musician gains work and organises the performance. By taking control of the business themselves, the team was able to not only work more practically and get paid more promptly, there were also new projects and collaborations outside of the original musicians role that made Evelyn's work more diverse and far reaching. I wrote a separate blog here at  http://www.miltoncontact-blog.com/2017/07/evelyn-glennie-musician-and.html.