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Major Jobs Boost For The UK As Leading Pharmaceutical Companies Announce Big Investment
More than 1,700 jobs are set to be created in the UK by two pharmaceutical giants, the Government has announced as it unveiled its new industrial strategy.

Life sciences company MSD has agreed to open a new life sciences discovery research facility in the UK, supporting a total of 950 jobs in high-skilled and high-value research roles.

Additionally, diagnostics company QIAGEN will expand its Manchester presence – a move which could see the creation of 800 skilled jobs.

The announcement comes a week after the European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority both decided to quit London because of the Brexit vote – meaning the loss of more than 1,000 skilled jobs from the UK.

Announcing the new investment, Business Secretary Greg Clark said: “MSD’s commitment today, and the wider Sector Deal investment we have secured, proves the process outlined in the Industrial Strategy can give companies the confidence and direction they need to invest in the UK.

“It will ensure Britain continues to be at the forefront of innovation and represents a huge vote of confidence in our Industrial Strategy.”

MSD’s Research Laboratories president Dr. Roger M. Perlmutter said of the investment: “Strong discovery capabilities and the pursuit of scientific excellence are foundational to MSD’s mission to save and improve lives around the world.

“A new UK location will enable us to build on our proud legacy of invention and be an important contributor to the vibrant and rapidly growing UK life sciences community, while providing access for more collaborations within the European life science ecosystem.”

The Industrial Strategy will outline the Government’s plan to address the UK’s underlying productivity challenge, with a focus on five key foundations: Ideas, People, Infrastructure, Business Environment, Places.

Less than a week ago the Office for Budget Responsibility revised down its projections for the UK’s growth, with low productivity levels highlighted as a reason for the sluggish economy.

Hands said: “Britain’s productivity performance has not been good enough, and is holding back our earning power as a country.

“So this Industrial Strategy deliberately strengthens the five foundations of productivity: ideas, people, infrastructure, business environment and places.

“By acting together as a nation, and in a sustained way, to improve the underperforming conditions for productivity we can drive up our earning power.”

HuffPost UK approached Labour for a reaction, but no one from the press team responded to our request for a comment.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jobs-uk-industrial-strategy_uk_5a1af09de4b0649480750ee0

Driverless Cars: The Race Is On For Policy To Catch Up

In this year’s Budget, the UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond introduced sweeping regulatory reforms that could mean that driverless cars will be able to be tested on Britain’s roads by 2021, without any human operator inside or outside the car and without legal constraints.

While this is likely to be great news to many, the race is now on for policymaking to catch up. Why? Because driverless cars could substantially change more than just the way people travel.

Some of these changes could be positive for society. For instance, driverless cars are likely to be much better drivers than humans, because they will not speed, get distracted or tired or drive while impaired. The scope for reductions in road injuries and fatalities is substantial, considering that around 90 per cent of accidents are caused by human error, although the number of car accidents are declining in most countries because of improvements in car technology, roads, driving and emergency health care.

Driverless cars may also provide much needed accessibility to elderly and disabled people, which would be beneficial not only to them but to the economy at large. On-demand driverless buses could also transform rural public transport services, by providing low-cost services when people need them. More generally, people will be able to be more productive while travelling. They could work, read their emails or a book, visit with friends or grab a quick nap while travelling. In addition, goods may be able to be transported more cheaply – without the cost of drivers – and efficiently, perhaps using spare road capacity at night.

Furthermore, in a world with driverless cars, people may no longer need or want to own their own car. Instead, they may call up a car for the journeys they need to make – maybe a small nippy electric car for local journeys to the shops and larger and more comfortable vehicles for longer holiday trips. Much lower levels of car ownership could free up substantial tracts of urban land that are currently used to park vehicles. Moreover, if everyone used the most efficient vehicle for each journey taken, emissions and pollution could be substantially reduced.

But there are also potential pitfalls.

While driverless cars have the potential to create significant value for society, the benefits are unlikely to be evenly distributed and may even contribute to widening income and opportunity inequalities. Advancing technology could create disproportionate opportunities for some highly skilled workers and owners of capital, while replacing the labour of less skilled workers – such as taxi drivers and lorry drivers – with machines.

Some also worry about the impact on public transport services. On one hand, driverless cars could provide more convenient access to public transport services encouraging their use. But on the other hand, they could also encourage people to switch from travelling on more sustainable modes of travel, like bus and rail – or from walking or cycling.

Additionally, if driverless cars increase the convenience of travel, people will want to travel more. Many cities and countries are already struggling with traffic congestion and adding in more travel will only make the situation worse. Notwithstanding the additional empty cars that could be added to road traffic.

In the longer term, the transport system also could affect urban, regional and even national structures, influencing where people live and work, housing prices, the distances travelled to work, as well as people’s health and happiness. Sustainable and liveable areas do not happen without planning and regulation. Policymakers could look to those cities that wholeheartedly embraced the new innovation of about 100 years ago – the motor car – to take away key lessons on the potential influence of transport innovation on the places where people live.

So, while vehicle technology moves ahead, policymakers need to get into the race to catch up by considering these four actions: ensure workers who are likely to lose their jobs as a result of the new technology get the new skills they need to allow them to contribute productively to work, make sure that the benefits of this new technology do not contribute further to inequality across society, plan for potential increases in demand for road travel, and plan more generally to ensure that this new technology contributes to more sustainable and liveable urban areas.

Rather than waiting to see how new technologies will influence society, governments could act now to help shape the adoption of these technologies to ensure that they provide maximum benefit to society.

Charlene Rohr is a senior research leader at RAND Europe. She led the ’Future Transport Scenarios’ study, which explored the impact of new technologies on UK travel in 2035

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/driverless-cars_uk_5a184e41e4b0250a107bff21

Must-See LGBTQ TV: DC’s crossover event, new season of ‘Easy,’ and ‘A Very Pentatonix Christmas’ special!

www.glaad.org/blog/must-see-lgbtq-tv-dcs-crossover-event-new-season-easy-and-very-pentatonix-christmas-special

More GOPers Denounce Roy Moore, While Trump Lambastes His Opponent

Democrat Doug Jones “would be a disaster” as a U.S. senator from Alabama, Trump tweets, but more and more leading Republicans say Moore would be. 

www.advocate.com/politicians/2017/11/26/more-gopers-denounce-roy-moore-while-trump-lambastes-his-opponent

Unfortunate ITV News Editor Gets Trapped In A Lift Going Up And Down For An Hour

If you’ve had an unusual weekend, spare a thought for ITV Editor Mike Rigby.

He got trapped in a glass lift as it surged up and down, and appeared powerless to stop it from happening.

Footage of his incarceration was posted on Twitter by ITV colleague Paul Brand, who detailled the elevator odyssey.

The political correspondent wrote: “Our Programme Editor Mike Rigby has currently been going up and down in a lift for half an hour with no sign of escape.

“The bulletin could be sparse without his heavy LIFTing.”  

… 15 minutes later …

… closing in on an hour …

… and finally, freedom!

But other ITV colleagues appeared keen to give the story legs …

… and it seems it’s not the first time the unfortunate editor has been at the mercy of lift engineers …

… but as yet another colleague revealed, he seemed to take it all in good spirits.  

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/itv-editor-lift-trapped_uk_5a1b20f4e4b06494807527e6

Trump Endorses Website Promoting Far-Right Conspiracy Theories

In a tweet, he touted MagaPill.com, which has shared posts claiming Hillary Clinton is a pedophile and Lady Gaga is a Satanist.

www.advocate.com/politics/2017/11/26/trump-endorses-website-promoting-far-right-conspiracy-theories