Tag: economy

UK unemployment rate at its lowest since 1975

After a financially unstable decade, the crisis of 2007 seems like a distant memory as the UK’s unemployment rate has fallen to 4.7% in March 2017 – the joint lowest figure since the period June-August 1975. According to the Office of National Statistics’ March 2017 UK Labour Market Report, there...

Will our weakening economy threaten the emerging craft beer industry?

Our national brewers have warned the Guardian that our flourishing craft beer industry could be significantly affected by Brexit and the panic which followed, leading to a pound which is much weaker than that of yesteryear. The craft beer renaissance over the past few years lead to estimations that there...