Yesterday, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled her country’s budget for the next financial year. She did so amid a continuing national conversation about quality of life in contemporary Britain. Part of that dialogue has concerned the ebb and flow of people moving between the UK and the UAE, a trend scrutinised in an Ipsos poll commissioned this week by The National. What it revealed was interesting, especially in light of Ms Reeves’s claim in 2023 that “globalisation, as we once knew it, is dead”.
The demise of globalisation has been predicted before. However, although the phenomenon’s features may have changed from its high-water mark in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it is far from done. The persistent success of trans-national companies, the role of global capital and supply chains, as well as the connectivity inherent in the new AI era all mean the world remains a place of international markets and the movement of people seeking a better life.
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