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Mark Fox is Deputy Chairman of Reaction. Mark’s career encompasses business, journalism, volunteering, politics and the Royal Navy. He is the Chief Executive of The Business Services Association (BSA). The BSA works with industry to promote best practice, apprenticeships, job creation, investment and innovation across the UK’s private and public sectors.
Monday, 14 January 2019
As we wait it is worth sweeping the rubble of the weekend’s media coverage away, to try and make a …
Continue reading "Parliament is sovereign and the Commons can do what it thinks right"
By Mark Fox
Friday, 11 January 2019
2019 is a significant year for events and anniversaries. It is 80 years since the Battle of the Atlantic (the …
Continue reading "From the Gracchi to Nero – H.H. Scullard’s enduring classic"
By Mark Fox
Thursday, 10 January 2019
The latest set of productivity figures show once again the UK lagging lethargically behind comparable countries. Latest figures show the weakest …
Continue reading "We need to sort out Britain’s productivity problem once and for all"
By Mark Fox
Wednesday, 9 January 2019
Slowly but surely Parliament is asserting itself over the Executive. The House of Commons – which voted to approve the …
Continue reading "Parliament asserting itself is good news"
By Mark Fox
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Even by the standards of Brexit Britain the last few days have involved much sound, fury and hyperventilation in Parliament …
Continue reading "Brexit was always about more than economics"
By Mark Fox
Thursday, 13 December 2018
As the dust settles around Number 10 and the rubble is cleared away from the corridors of the House of …
Continue reading "It’s time for the House of Commons to just get on with it"
By Mark Fox
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Tuesday 4 December 2018 will go down in history for many reasons. Americans queued up to walk past their 41st …
Continue reading "Constitutional crisis? Nonsense. Parliament is doing its job"
By Mark Fox
Saturday, 1 December 2018
In his very good biography of George Bush, Destiny and Power, Jon Meacham tells how on winning the nomination of …
Continue reading "George HW Bush – the last President from the greatest generation"
By Mark Fox
Friday, 30 November 2018
It would be difficult to find two more distinguished economic commentators than Alan Greenspan – former Chairman of the Federal …
By Mark Fox
