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The Birketts view: Autumn Budget 2026
The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget on 28 October 2026 raises a wide range of considerations for businesses, individuals and families. From wage increases, food tariffs and alcohol duty to social housing investment, support for self-employed parents, AI infrastructure and family business succession, the measures span employment, living costs, sector pressures and longer-term planning. Below, Birketts’ lawyers explore the implications across their sectors and specialisms.
Preparing for senior leadership exits
The statutory cap on compensation for ordinary unfair dismissal claims plays a significant role in shaping senior executive exits. The current cap, which increased to £123,543 on 6 April 2026, operates to significantly limit the incentive for senior executives to pursue unfair dismissal claims, with potential awards frequently equating to only a few months’ pay, and in some cases even less.
Remote working vs office return - navigating the new era
The data is clear – remote work has its advantages. According to the Office for National Statistics’ Time Use Survey (March 2024), remote workers are sleeping more, exercising more and reporting higher job satisfaction. In 2025 research by Grant Thornton found nearly 71 per cent of mid-sized businesses are using hybrid models, and 83 per cent of those leaders say it has boosted both productivity and wellbeing. So why the growing calls for a return to the office?
A decolonisation that dare not speak its name-George Hull reviews Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously
George Hull reviews Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Hurst & Co., 2022 The prevailing view of colonialism, writes Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò of Cornell University in his new book Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously, ‘is necessarily and justifiably negative’. Centuries of Arab and European conquests established illegitimate governmental regimes over much of Africa.
New social justice creed puts UCT at the crossroads
The highly publicised student protests that started in SA in 2015 catapulted a “woke” conceptual repertoire into the mainstream. In the universities, its instantly recognisable vocabulary — “positionality”, “lived experience”, “trigger”, “trauma”, “invisible violence”, “intersectionality”, “pathological whiteness”, “black pain” — is now seeping into faculty discussions and management communiqués. It could soon be the basis on which some universities are run.
Why government loans are the fairest way to fund South Africa’s students
In South Africa many students object to the loan component of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NFSAS) because it saddles them with debt. Even the government seems to have lost confidence in its loan scheme. Recent reforms have increased the bursary component of NSFAS and undermined its recovery ratio. But government-backed student credit is a financial instrument well suited to funding higher education.
Why government loans are the fairest way to fund South Africa’s students
In South Africa many students object to the loan component of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NFSAS) because it saddles them with debt. Even the government seems to have lost confidence in its loan scheme. Recent reforms have increased the bursary component of NSFAS and undermined its recovery ratio. But government-backed student credit is a financial instrument well suited to funding higher education.
Why government loans are the fairest way to fund South Africa's students
Some people believe that student loans are little more than a revived form of colonial indenture. In South Africa many students object to the loan component of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NFSAS) because it saddles them with debt. Even the government seems to have lost confidence in its loan scheme. Recent reforms have increased the bursary component of NSFAS and undermined its recovery ratio.
Free university education is not the route to social justice
“Free education in our lifetime” is the campaign slogan many students have adopted in the recent protests across South Africa against university fee increases. The country’s higher education minister is among those who have replied that, although free education for all university students would be the ideal, it is economically unfeasible right now. But is it true that in an ideal world higher education would be free – that is, be fully funded by the state?
George Vincent Hull - Spirit of Jefferson: Obituaries
He graduated from Frederick High School in 1930. He was a veteran of WW II, having served in the United States Army, and drafted shortly after turning 30 in 1943. He started working at age 11, delivering the Frederick News. At age 13 he started a 15 year career with Peoples Drug Store. In 1941, he became an agent with Met Life retiring in 1975 with 34 years of service. After retiring he volunteered with the American Red Cross. Vince was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church, his entire life.
Free university education is not the route to social justice
“Free education in our lifetime” is the campaign slogan many students have adopted in the recent protests across South Africa against university fee increases. The country’s higher education minister is among those who have replied that, although free education for all university students would be the ideal, it is economically unfeasible right now. But is it true that in an ideal world higher education would be free – that is, be fully funded by the state?
'So white you've got to wear shades'
Correlate: Steps should be taken where necessary to ensure that people from disadvantaged groups are supported. (Mayibuye Archives) George Hull Philosophy’s principal charm lies in its ability to do so much with so little. This seduced me as an undergraduate, when I read WVO Quine’s argument for the startling claim that the meanings of words are, in principle, just as revisable as theoretical propositions in the face of empirical evidence.
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