Brendan Shaw “The failures of globalisation are not inevitable” - Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents Revisited, 2017 “This new kind of globalisation is about security, not efficiency: it prioritises doing business with people you can rely on, in countries your government is friendly with.” - The Economist, 16 June 2022 I was shocked the other day when I went to buy a lettuce at my local supermarket, and it was priced at $12. Twelve dollars is a l

Brendan Shaw “Fair dinkum – (adj, Australian informal), true, genuine, authentic” - Aussie Slang Dictionary “Collywobbles – (noun, UK informal), an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach caused by feelings of nervousness or slight fear” - Cambridge Dictionary News that the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and Australia have signed an in-principle agreement on the broad outline of the proposed Australia – UK Free Trade Agreement has prompted debates about whether the announ

Brendan Shaw Article published 24 September 2020 in PharmaBoardroom on US President Donald Trump's new Executive Order on Most Favoured Nation medicine pricing and its potential impacts on medicines pricing and availability in other high income countries. #medicine #price #health #usa #australia #reimbursement #trade #Trump

Brendan Shaw and Sunayana Shah With the Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union at an impasse and rising tension between the two parties, there is an increasing likelihood that the UK may crash out of the EU at the end of this year in a ‘no-deal’ scenario. This could raise major issues for the UK’s pharmaceutical and biotech industries and for patients. Are UK-EU negotiations on a road to nowhere? The negotiations are about a future trading agree

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills" - Chinese proverb There’s been a lot said about the strained relations between Western countries and China. But no one seems to have told the life sciences sector, which is just getting on with building new global alliances in an international industry that benefits economies and humanity alike. Tense times? We’ve been hearing a lot about the tense relationship between China and the West in re

Should I stay or should I go now? Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double So you gotta let me know Should I stay or should I go? - Should I Stay or Should I Go?, The Clash I reckon when someone writes 'Brexit the Musical', the title will come from this immortal song by the 1980s British punk rock band, The Clash. The climactic scene in 'Brexit the Musical' will be when Prime Minister, Theresa May, bursts into a rendition

Article published on PharmaTimes online can be found here. #Australia #UnitedKingdom #Brexit #Britain #trade #industrialpolicy #pharmaceutical #lifesciences

Britain has a long tradition of excellence in developing medical breakthroughs. The breakthrough that transformed the world of medicine, penicillin, was discovered by Alexander Fleming, a Brit from Scotland, in 1928. But it was an Australian, Howard Florey, who during World War II led the team at Oxford University and, together with Ernst Chain, a refugee from Nazi Germany, took Fleming’s scientific discovery and turned it into an antibiotic that could be used to treat infect