Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 131 (18th November 2022)
[Requires Airmic member login] Hear from the Innovation Team at Lloyd's about their latest research and thinking around the geopolitical landscape.
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Friday Reading Edition 130 (11th November 2022)
With many countries’ climate commitments falling short, the COP27 summit is as vital as ever. But there are reasons to be optimistic, too, as these 5 pieces from the World Economic Forum’s Agenda platform make clear.
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Friday Reading Edition 130 (11th November 2022)
A dedicated COP27 hub that is tracking the key developments by providing resources and analysis, with a particular focus on impacts for the energy industry, a sector in the frontline of tackling the climate crisis, from regional overviews and sectorial deep dives to timely analysis and accessible rich media.
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Friday Reading Edition 129 (4th November 2022)
Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, the report uses scenario-based analysis to help manage uncertainty around the interconnected threat of cyber and geopolitics, looking specifically at the perils of state-sponsored cyber-attacks.
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
The latest update on recent economic (September 2022), financial and budgetary decisions and developments following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It includes recent information relating to the EU sanctions regime, recent economic estimates, and policies supporting economic and financial resilience, including the coordination of national economic and fiscal measures.
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Friday Reading Edition 124 (30th September 2022)
The combination of supply chain bottlenecks, generous government spending, tight labour markets and a commodity shock triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has caused inflation to shoot well above central banks’ targets across many developed economies. That’s putting pressure on household finances and business margins.
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The new Prime Minister was elected on a platform of deep tax cuts, coupled with regulatory loosening. This would represent a major change in policy direction from the previous Johnson/Sunak partnership.
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After 70 years on the throne, the part Queen Elizabeth played in UK government seemed to reflect hard and fast rules about the monarch’s constitutional position in relation to the executive. But King Charles III is already showing that he wants to put his own stamp on this important aspect of his new role, says Hannah White of the think tank Institute for Government.
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Prime Minister Liz Truss has promised to push ahead with the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. In addition, she is reported to be planning to trigger Article 16 of the Protocol. While relations between the UK and the EU are now in a bad place, it is possible to find a way forward, provided both sides are prepared to move and then engage in hard, detailed negotiation. The issues are indeed complex, but if the UK and the EU can surely craft a solution here.
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[Subscription required] Writing in this Hong Kong-based newspaper, Mark Logan, vice-chair for the All-Party Parliamentary China Group in the UK, writes about what we can expect from the new prime minister with regard to UK-China relations.
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