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Bruce Dickinson, a qualified pilot, launches company which can repair and overhaul planes up to the size of a Boeing 767
Bruce Dickinson, a commercial airline pilot and established aviation entrepreneur, has set up Cardiff Aviation Limited, which will provide specialist services to the airline industry. Photograph: Benjamin Wright/PA
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson is hoping that money can be made from repairing heavy metal as well as performing it, after launching an aircraft maintenance business.
Dickinson, one of rock's renaissance men – a commercial airline pilot, enthusiastic fencer and published novelist – has established a company that will repair and overhaul aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 767. Cardiff Aviation Ltd will be based in an enterprise zone in the Vale of Glamorgan and Dickinson said the business had ambitious growth targets.
"We're coming into this enterprise with the knowledge we'll be bringing business to south Wales," he said. "A cautious projection is that we'd expect to create up to a thousand jobs within 18 months, based on the level of interest and commitment from aircraft manufacturers and operators."
Dickinson added: "South Wales has long had an association with the aircraft industry and I am delighted I am able to play a small part in the continuation of that tradition."
Dickinson's love of flying has assured the singer a place as one of rock's more eccentric figures, although he has assured fans that he does not "leap around the flight deck yelling and screaming". The 53-year-old was a captain for the now-defunct Astraeus Airlines and has flown his band in their "Ed Force One" Boeing 757 during an Iron Maiden world tour.
The Wales business minister, Edwina Hart, said the new company would boost a "dynamic" aerospace sector in Wales. "The Welsh government has been working closely with Bruce Dickinson and Cardiff Aviation on this exciting project for some time and we are delighted it has come to fruition. This is exactly the type of investment needed, which will create hundreds of well-paid skilled jobs in one of our key sectors," he said.
Dickinson's venture will be based in a 132,000 square foot hangar at the St Athan enterprise zone, one of five zones set up by the Welsh government for specific sectors. Welsh government officials said the zone could create 10,000 jobs by 2025.
The songwriter also said the venture could provide a welcome boost to Cardiff airport, which has recently seen visitor numbers drop. He said: "Cardiff airport has tremendous potential to challenge the successful English regional airports."
Last year the Welsh government confirmed it was setting up five enterprise zones, each specialising in a different sector.
France saw its manufacturing sector move higher in August but services disappoint, while Germany continued to power ahead.
So the overall eurozone economy recorded its best manufacturing performance since April 2011, although the service sector did let the side down a little.
Elsewhere European Central Bank president Mario Draghi defended quantitative easing and forward guidance, but warned of further challenges ahead.
Meanwhile the pound hit a new eight year low against the euro, partly due to the strong eurozone figures and partly due to continuing Brexit concerns.
On the corporate front, WPP shares dropped sharply after the advertising group reported disappointing results.
Stock markets are drifting lower, with the FTSE 100 currently down 0.14%, Germany’s Dax dipping 0.33% and France’s Cac falling 0.13%.
Despite QE and low interest rates, central banks must do more to boost incomes, says Edward Smythe, economist at research and campaign group Positive Money:
The likelihood of an exit from QE in the eurozone and elsewhere is diminished by the persistence of below-target inflation. The proliferation of low-wage, irregular and insecure jobs means that wage pressures - and therefore spending power - are subdued even as unemployment falls.
If policymakers wish to unwind QE, and bring interest rates back to their pre-crisis levels, they must do more to boost incomes on a structural basis. This means moving monetary policy away from exhausting a wealth effect stimulus, to generating demand that is sustainable.
On the agenda for Jackson Hole should be the option of governments using money creation rather than borrowing to boost productive investment. Known as overt monetary financing, this idea is gaining support among leading economists like Adair Turner. Subject to credible central bank control, it could be an effective way of injecting demand directly into the real economy.
Worries about Brexit are among the factors contributing to the pound’s current woes. Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex, said:
After an incredibly flat start the pound took a dive this Wednesday, the currency infected by a bout of Brexit bearishness.
There’s not really been much to force sterling lower against the dollar and the euro. The former has admittedly seen something of a comeback this week following a fortnight of macro-economic losses; the latter, meanwhile, received a bit of a boost from a better than expected Eurozone manufacturing PMI (even if the services reading was worse than forecast).
Yet neither fully explains why the pound is doing quite so badly. Cable has slipped under $1.28 for the first time since the end of June, while against the euro sterling has plunged another half a percent to hit a fresh 8 year nadir.
With little else going on in the UK, it seems investors have been left to speculate about the state of the Brexit negotiations, rarely a good thing for the health of the pound.
The euro’s surge – its sterling gains were joined by a 0.2% rise against the dollar – sapped the energy from the Eurozone indices, with the DAX and CAC now both down around 0.1%. As for the FTSE, the pound’s miserable morning meant it could shrink its losses, though WPP’s 11% plunge meant the UK index was still down 0.2%
And although Jackson Hole would be the perfect place for central bankers like Draghi to lay the foundation for upcoming policy moves it is by no means certain they will, says Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda:
If Draghi’s comments today are anything to go by we should not get our hopes up. Draghi steered well clear of upcoming monetary policy decisions and if reports last week are to be believed, he may well do so again on Friday.
The ECB is clearly very concerned about the recent appreciation in the euro – despite an insistence that it does not concern itself with such matters – and recent “misinterpretations” by traders to Draghi’s comments will likely mean he steers clear once again.
Euro near 8 yr high vs pound - could be in for huge unwind if Draghi fails to deliver on JH tapering speech#EURGBP pic.twitter.com/1A6GrbO3wL
It’s time for our monthly healthcheck on the UK economy following Brexit, and there are signs things are picking up although there are worries about the outlook. Richard Partington writes:
Ministers are preparing for crucial Brexit talks this autumn against a backdrop of better news on jobs, inflation and the public finances as the UK economy displayed signs of stability after a volatile start to the year, a Guardian analysis shows.
The Guardian’s monthly tracker of economic news shows inflation coming close to its peak and the lowest levels of unemployment since the mid-1970s. However, the ever-present threat that rocky negotiations could knock business confidence, derailing the economy, remains.
The latest inflation figures confounded City economists’ expectations for prices to resume an upward trajectory following an unexpected drop in June, while the UK also reported a surprise budget surplus in July, the first positive outturn for the nation’s finances in that month since 2002. Meanwhile, spending on food helped to support growth in retail sales, despite a drop in spending across all other sectors, as consumers exercise more caution amid a squeeze on household budgets.
But despite the positive signs for UK, defying the gloomiest forecasts ahead of the referendum for a Brexit recession, clouds are gathering as ministers prepare for more talks with Brussels after a summer lull.
It dipped below $1.28 against the dollar earlier for the first time since June and is still down 0.17% at $1.2802. Against the euro it is 0.3% lower at €1.0868.
Interesting. Difference from 2008 is that when £ hit all time low vs Euro, it was still worth $1.44 cf $1.28 today. https://t.co/BYFgwPtvSC
The pound may be weak at the moment but it could recover from here, says Yann Quelenn at Swissquote Bank;
One boost will come from UK Q2 GDP figures, to be released Thursday morning. They are expected to show robust, solid growth of 1.7% (annualised). Brexit negotiations are making slow progress, but we think the markets’ fears of a Hard Brexit are overblown. The likelihood that all 27 remaining European Union member states will line up together against the UK is very low. (Indeed, the likelihood that they all line up together against anything is rather low.) The EU has a lucrative trading relationship with the UK, which it will not want to destroy.
There may be GBP weakness in the medium term, as investors show nerves, but the longer-term outlook is bullish.
Mario Draghi’s speech may have delivered little in terms of the future of QE but it was important in many respects, suggests David Owen, chief European financial fconomist at Jefferies:
Mario Draghi’s Lindau Nobel laureate speech may not have directly addressed some of the markets current key concerns (how exactly the ECB intends to tweak its bond buying in 2018, the current level of the euro) but the speech was nevertheless important in stressing the role of academic research in driving the policy debate, both before well before the financial crisis, but more recently at the effective lower bound. Mario Draghi also highlighted the failure of the macro community to forecast the financial crisis, but how that too is being addressed.
A year ago we argued that the 2016 Jackson Hole symposium had missed a trick in not focusing on why equilibrium real interest rates were so low and the potential role for fiscal policy and structural reforms in driving recoveries forward. That will likely be addressed later this week given the title of this year’s Jackson Hole “Fostering a dynamic global economy.”
For the ECB it is clear that with the recovery continuing to broaden out (the PMIs were arguably consistent with a 0.5% GDP print in Q3) they will move to taper in 2018, and will be less focused on the exchange rate than many in the markets. When it comes to the ECB and QE and the exchange rate, the move in the currency has a habit of occurring well ahead of the event, with the currency falling before the bond buying commenced and then rising before the program is tweaked.
More importantly at a global level the macro debate appears to have moved on, with more of a focus on fiscal policy and structural reforms in driving recoveries. For the ECB the key thing is whether the recovery is continuing to broaden out, not the precise level of the euro.
EU MID SESSION UPDATE: No fireworks from Draghi in his Lindau speech, however EUR surges strong on Eurozone PMI’shttps://t.co/G4BhsGtJDp
In the past decade alone, at least 17 journalists in Russia have been murdered. Those killed represent the breadth of Russian journalism – editors, reporters, photographers, columnists, cameramen and a publisher. They come from large cities and small towns across Russia; some, like Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, had earned international acclaim, while others had covered issues significant only to their communities. They all engaged in critical reporting that upset powerful interests – whether in government, business, law enforcement or organised crime.
Shockingly, in only one case have the killers been convicted. Why are these murders going unsolved? The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has closely examined these 17 murders, committed under the current Russian leadership, and found that in all cases the lack of transparency and accountability, susceptibility to external pressures, conflicts of interest, or insufficient political will have marred official investigations.
CPJ's report, Anatomy of Injustice, published this week in Moscow and London, documents the government's inability to solve the crimes and reflects shortcomings at investigative, prosecutorial and judicial levels.
The report shows that, time and again, investigators have failed to sufficiently probe the victims' journalism as a possible murder motive, examine their publications and reporters' notes, question relevant witnesses, and track down potential suspects. At times, seemingly important evidence has been lost or concealed. In a few cases, prosecutors brought untenable cases to trial, and at least in one case they brought bogus charges against an innocent man. At all levels, Authorities have failed to communicate with families about even the most basic developments in the cases of their loved ones. Failure to solve the killings has undermined the public trust in Russia's justice system and its capacity to protect its citizens.
In short, someone is getting away with murdering journalists in Russia, and this record of impunity has had a chilling effect on the press corps. Russian journalists have shunned sensitive subjects such as corruption, human rights abuses, official wrongdoing and organised crime. The domestic public and international community have been kept in the dark about relevant issues, which has led to the closing of Russia's society in recent years – a development that has hurt the country's aspirations to be perceived as a world leader and a reliable international partner.
Russia's record of impunity undermines a public pledge made by President Dmitry Medvedev in 2008 that attacks on journalists will be solved: "All instances related to the attempts on the life and health of journalists in our country will be investigated and prosecuted to the end, regardless of when they occurred," he told a gathering of politicians and business leaders in Berlin. A year earlier, the then President Vladimir Putin made a similar pledge to protect Russia's press corps, but such promises are undermined in light of these unsolved killings.
Medvedev and Putin, as Russia's top leaders, share a moral responsibility for these cases. They must condemn – unconditionally and on the record – all violent crimes against the press and demand concrete results from investigating agencies. Russia's legal authorities should order the thorough re-examination of all the unsolved journalist murder cases. International leaders should hold their Russian counterparts accountable, use diplomacy to effect change, and, if needed, take action in international legal forums.
There are some reasons for hope: in July, Russian investigating authorities committed themselves to restarting the failed inquiry into the Klebnikov murder. For the first time they agreed to accept assistance from their US counterparts in the case. Russia's supreme court has also ordered the case of three suspected accomplices in the murder of Politkovskaya to be returned to prosecutors for further investigation. Russian authorities should build on this good start and bring to justice Politkovskaya's and Klebnikov's killers, as well as the killers of the other journalists slain for their work since 2000.
When an influential country – a member of international organisations premised on upholding universal human rights, including the rights to life and freedom of expression – fails to protect those rights at home, it undermines them for everyone.
Read the CPJ report here. Nina Ognianova joins a panel discussion on 17 September at 1pm hosted by Index on Censorship at the Free Word Centre in London. To reserve a place call 020 7324 2570 or email bookings@freewordonline.com
Conservatives turn three-point opinion poll lead into eight-point deficit | Politics | theguardian.com
Latest Guardian/ICM poll sees the Tories slumping to 33%, after registering 39% last month, with Labour rising from 36% to 41%
David Cameron's party has registered its lowest score since before the 2010 general election. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Support for the Conservative party has plunged since the budget according to the findings of a new Guardian/ICM poll that gives a resurgent Labour its best score in almost nine years.
The three-point lead David Cameron was enjoying over Labour immediately before George Osborne's budget has now given way to an eight-point deficit.
Tory support has plunged by six points in a single month, down from 39% to 33%. Meanwhile, Labour has climbed five from 36% to 41%, to claim an eight-point lead. The Liberal Democrats stand still on 15%, while the combined total of the smaller parties has inched up two to stand at 12%.
The results include adjustments which ICM makes for the likelihood that respondents will actually turn out to vote, and also for the historic reluctance of Tory voters to identify themselves.
These refinements have improved ICM's accuracy over recent elections, but without them the Labour lead would be even bigger – as it has been in some recent surveys by other companies.
The Conservative slide is the biggest seen in the monthly Guardian/ICM series since the autumn of 2008, when the onset of the credit crunch briefly produced very volatile political conditions.
It leaves the Tories with their worst score since before the general election. Labour, meanwhile, has exceeded the 40% threshold – often said to be the benchmark for a clear election win – for the first time in many years. Indeed, its 41% score is the party's strongest showing in the series since May 2003.
At that time, Iain Duncan Smith was heading the embattled Tory opposition to Tony Blair's government, and Labour will be thrilled at the thought that the fallout from the budget and other problems such as the petrol panic may now have landed David Cameron's party in comparable difficulties.
But the detail of the poll does not suggest a sea change in public opinion. On the crucial question of economic competence, in particular, the government remains comfortably ahead – with Cameron and Osborne trusted to run the economy properly by 44% of respondents, with 31% believing Labour leader Ed Miliband and his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, would provide more effective financial management.
This continuing 13-point margin will be a great comfort to the Conservatives, although the trend is now running against them here too.
At the end of last year, Cameron and Osborne led Miliband and Balls by 21 points on economic management, a gap which narrowed to 18 in January and 17 just before the budget, before narrowing by another four points this month.
Ratings for individual politicians suggest that the headline Labour lead is driven more by disillusion with the coalition than by any positive view of the opposition.
By wide margins, voters reject the idea that any of the three party leader "understand people like me", and also the suggestion that any of them are "good in a crisis".
The big difference, however, concerns Cameron's perceived competence. At the turn of the year, by 50% to 40% voters trusted him to do well in a crisis. But that 10-point advantage has now turned into a 13 point deficit, with voters now rejecting the idea that he is good in a crisis by a 50% to 37% margin.
The poll asks about voting intentions for Westminster as opposed to the upcoming council elections, where there has been speculation that fringe parties may do well.
Some recent polls have shown a surge in support for the UK Independence Party (Ukip), suggesting it could even push the Lib Dems into fourth place. But ICM puts it on just 3%, up two points from 1% a month ago.
The UK scores for other smaller parties are: 4% for the Scottish Nationalists, 1% for Plaid Cymru, 2% for the Greens, 1% for the British National Party and 1% for other minority groupings.
ICM Research interviewed a random sample of 1,000 adults aged 18+ by telephone on 20-22 April 2012. Interviews were conducted across the UK and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.
Ed Miliband to step up campaign for middle England as Labour gains first byelection seat from Conservatives in 15 years
Labour has gained its first seat from the Tories in a byelection since the eve of its landslide victory in 1997, after capturing the bellwether seat of Corby.
In a significant boost for Ed Miliband's leadership, Andy Sawford overturned a Tory majority of 1,951 to win Corby by 7,791 with a total of 17,267 votes. Christine Emmett, the Tory candidate, came second on 9,476; Margot Parker for Ukip was third on 5,108.
In a blow to Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat candidate, Jill Hope, came fourth with 1,770 votes and lost her deposit by 14 votes. The count was delayed after the Lib Dems demanded a series of recounts.
Miliband planned to visit the Tory-supporting rural areas of the constituency on Friday afternoon to declare that Labour was in serious contention in the sort of middle England seats that were crucial to Tony Blair's three successive general election victories. Corby has been won by the governing party in every election for the past three decades.
The Tories moved quickly to blame the result on Louise Mensch, the author and A-list candidate who resigned the seat over the summer after deciding to relocate to New York.
Mensch helped the Tory defence by tweeting overnight: "Election result will not be a verdict on either Christine, or the Conservatives, but only on the decision I took to step down mid-term."
But Labour said the Tories would be making a grave error if they thought the departure of Mensch explained the Tories' first loss of a seat to Labour in a byelection since Wirral South in February 1997. Ben Chapman won three months before Labour's landslide general election victory.
One Labour source said: "Louise Mensch barely came up on the doorstep. People were much more concerned about jobs and the future of [nearby] Kettering general hospital. Corby is a microcosm of the country. The Tories should be worried."
Ministers are planning to turn on Chris Heaton-Harris, the party's campaign manager, who was secretly filmed admitting that he encouraged an anti-windfarm candidate to stand in the byelection. A Tory source said: "I think you'll find that Chris will not be rebelling for a while."
Sawford is the son of Phil Sawford, who held the nearby swing seat of Kettering for Labour between 1997-2005.
Labour's victory in Corby followed overnight wins in Cardiff South and Penarth and in Manchester Central. It was also leading in the polls for the first police and crime commissioner elections.
Lucy Powell held the Manchester Central parliamentary seat for Labour with 11,507 votes on a turnout of 18.16%, below the previous record low for a parliamentary byelection of 19.9% in Leeds Central in 1999. The Conservative candidate, Matthew Sephton, lost his deposit after securing just 754 votes, less than 5% of the total turnout. The swing away from the Liberal Democrats was 16.77%.
Stephen Doughty retained Labour's Cardiff South and Penarth seat after winning almost half of the votes cast on a turnout of 25.65%, with a swing from the Conservatives to Labour of 8.41%.
• This article was amended on Friday 16 November. The original story said that Labour had demanded a series of recounts in Corby. This was incorrect – it was the Lib Dems that had demanded the recounts.
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The parents of murdered eight-year-old Victoria Climbié have criticised the government for failing to fully implement two key recommendations made by Lord Laming's inquiry report into their daughter's death.
The couple also say they are frustrated that despite meetings with a number of ministers over the past few months, the government is delaying their efforts to build a school in memory of Victoria by stalling on an earlier promise to donate substantial funds to the cause.
Berthe Amoissi and Francis Climbié spoke exclusively to SocietyGuardian.co.uk in Bournemouth after attending an informal meeting with the children's minister, Margaret Hodge, and the education secretary, Charles Clarke, to discuss the contents of the government's green paper on children.
Victoria's parents welcomed the document, which should ensure the issues surrounding Victoria's death will stay at the forefront of service professionals' mind,
But they said they were disappointed that the green paper failed to endorse Lord Laming's call for a dedicated national agency for children and a database holding records of every contact a child under 16 has with statutory services.
Mr Climbié said the real test will be what happens in practice to improve children's services and reduce child abuse as a result of both the document and Ms Hodge's appointment as children's minister.
"It is in the practice that there is a problem so if people manage to put this in place, then I think Great Britain will get back on track," he said.
He and his wife are on a five-week tour of Britain in a bid to raise £250,000 for the Victoria Climbié charitable trust, which they are launching today in memory of their daughter.
They are hoping to open a primary school in their Ivory Coast village, Abobo, to educate other children locally.
Victoria was sent to Europe with her aunt, Marie Thérèse Kouao, to receive a decent education. The nearest school to her village was 25km away.
With only £4,000 in the charity's pot so far, it has to raise another £188,000 to build the school, and a further £58,000 to run it for five years.
Yet the government has still to honour a promise made by Alan Milburn when he was health secretary to donate a significant sum towards the project.
Mr Climbié said Ms Hodge and Mr Clarke told them a decision would be made next week when the couple will meet the ministers for a second, more formal meeting, but the decision was already well overdue.
"Why doesn't the government and those who have decided to help us act to give us the money necessary to build the school?" he asked.
Mor Dioum, who has supported the couple throughout the inquiry into Victoria's death and is now one of the charity's trustees, spoke in stronger terms. He described the meeting with the two ministers as a "brief and empty discussion".
"What we would love to hear from them is something concrete from the people who are responsible towards the death of Victoria. Hopefully in the next week we will be able to pull something together."
The Victoria Climbié Charitable Trust is made up of four trustees, including Victoria's parents and Caroline Ingram, a British lawyer who became involved after sending the family a donation.
Workers in Pennsylvania, once a steel hub, are conflicted about the tariffs proposal and fear Trump could just be playing politics
To say former steelworkers in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley are conflicted about Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on steel imports is not quite to capture the mood.
Those who voted for the president see the tariff as a fulfilment of a campaign promise, proof he is a man of the people and, what’s more, his word. Those who never supported Trump do not see it that way.
Here is a man who used foreign steel to build his own buildings, they think. Who hires foreign workers and relies on foreign money. Someone who does not have to worry what a car costs – or a can of soup, for that matter. A politician who is just trying to win the special election next week in Pittsburgh. Who might not even follow up.
But at the same time, they admit the potential appeal of the tariff announcement. They wonder what would have happened if the government had acted more aggressively to defend the steel industry 40 or 50 years ago. And they concede that the president got the rollout right.
“The president was so smart about how he did this, and it breaks my heart to ever say those words,” said Frank Behum, who worked for 32 years at Bethlehem Steel, which once employed thousands of people regionally but closed in the mid-1990s.
“This was all a set-up for the US representative’s race in the 18th district, a little south-west of Pittsburgh. This is what our president will do to muddy the waters, and I don’t think the steel workers are going to fall for it.
Pittsburgh is home to US Steel, the country’s second-largest producer. Democrats have a chance to grab the 18th district in a special election on Tuesday, in a race in which steelworkers, unions and other groups paying close attention to the tariffs issue could play a pivotal role.
Trump’s focus on the congressional race was underscored by his appearance at a raucous campaign-style rally outside Pittsburgh on Saturday night, in support of Republican Rick Saccone.
“They’re opening a lot of the steel mills up because of what I did,” he claimed. “Steel is back and aluminium is back too.”
That was a message that resonated with Trump supporters such as Bruce Haines, a former US Steel executive who called the tariff “long overdue”.
“Steel and aluminum tariffs are necessary to protect from unfair dumped steel,” Haines wrote in an email.
“Like the tax cuts, only Trump has the balls to pull this off. In this case he is fulfilling his campaign promise to Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, while also helping West Virginia and Kentucky reopen coal mines needed for steel, as well as getting the Minnesota iron ore mines back up and running – all employing the forgotten American worker that crossed the aisle to vote for Trump.”
Multiple former steelworkers, though, pointed out that the US steel industry is a long way from being able to meet US demand, no matter how high the president’s barriers to entry.
Frank Hawkey worked 31 years at Bethlehem steel. “These tariffs here are such a joke,” he said. “Every time you open up a can of vegetables, it’s either aluminum or steel. And they’re not getting that from the United States.
“The mills that have been shut down in the USA are now brownfields. There’s nothing left there. You could just survey Pittsburgh, Ohio – there’s a few plants going, like in Indiana, but they can’t supply everything.”
Larry Neff worked at Bethlehem Steel for 25 years. “Many of my brothers think it’s about 30 to 40 years too late,” he said. But he warned that the picture was no longer so simple.
“These tariffs will just start a trade war which will cost the American consumer more to purchase items,” he said. “None of the older plants could be started up again, and many of the mills producing steel now are owned by other countries.”
In a response to Trump’s tariffs on Friday, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker fueled fears of a trade war, declaring: “We can also do stupid.”
Haines said those fears were overblown. “This will be fun to watch play out,” he said. “Trump is too smart to get in a trade war which would jeopardize our economy, in my opinion.”
In another begrudging point for the president, Behum pointed out that many former Bethlehem Steel employees in the Lehigh Valley have health and other benefits that are currently paid for, thanks to industry consolidation, by Luxembourg steelmaker ArcelorMittal, which produces steel in the US and could stand to gain from the tariff.
Neff doubted that Trump cared about steelworkers, pointing out that Chinese steel had been used in Las Vegas and Chicago to build Trump hotels.
“Don’t stay there if you go,” said Neff, the author of the entertaining steel memoir Rigger. “You may go to sleep on the eighth floor and wake up on the third floor. We ex-steel hangers call that a Chinese accordion.”
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Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Chip Protein Granola Bars- with 9 grams of protein and ready in 20 minutes, these protein bars will become your new favorite snack recipe!
I have a habit of getting stuck in food ruts. I find something that I really like and tend to stick to it. For example, I looooove dates and the texture that they give to my no-bake energy balls and bars. As a result, just about every recipe of this sort that has been posted on THM has been a variation of this date-nuts-dried fruit mixture.
While I might be perfectly content with this combination, I can acknowledge that you might not be. Despite my multiple attempts to encourage you to buy a food processor, the majority of you either don’t own one or don’t have the space or budget to own one. This shouldn’t mean you can’t make a healthy no-bake snack of your own too.
I actually developed quite a bit of guilt at how limiting my no-bake balls and bars were for some of you. So much so that I set a goal for myself for 2015 to make sure to include snack recipes that anyone (with a bowl and spoon) can make. But here’s the thing and I learned this lesson years ago when I tried to make no-bake bars with maple syrup, you MUST use brown rice syrup. Perhaps you are one of the few who has discovered how to keep no-bake bars together without brown rice syrup but I am certainly not one of them. Brown rice syrup is the stickiest natural sweetener I’ve used and it really works wonders when it comes to keeping things glued together.
I have no qualms with brown rice syrup other than the fact that I now have another sweetener taking up precious storage space in my cupboards. And that sometimes it can be tricky to find although this argument is no longer now that God has answered my prayers and opened up a Bulk Barn in the neighbourhood.
The other big request I get from readers is more recipes with protein powders. Here’s where I don’t feel guilty. I don’t mind protein powder and totally used to be a protein powder fiend but it’s just not something that has a huge presence in my life anymore. On occasion I’ll throw it into a smoothie or into oatmeal or bars but I’m not about to throw the word “protein” in every title of every recipe I post. It has nothing to do with the taste of protein powder or the idea behind it – I think if you like the taste and need more protein then you do you – it’s more that I just don’t need to use it. I don’t find myself needing ALL THE PROTEIN to survive and sometimes I actually feel kind of sick if I eat too much protein.
But for you guys, I’ll make an exception. These bars have 9 grams of protein in each one (depending on the protein powder you use), are full of natural, healthy ingredients, and even better, they don’t require a food processor! C and I, and my Barre ladies loved them. They kind of taste like chewy bars but without all of the gunk.
These Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Chip Protein Granola Bars are actually easier to make than my usual no-bake food processor variety and it totally doesn’t hurt that there’s a nice protein kick in them. The lesson learned here is that maybe I should start listening to all of you a little more!
*I’ve made these with both hemp and whey protein. Both are delicious! The hemp has a slightly earthier taste and will change the colour to a darker colour than is pictured.
im not much of a protein powder person – its that after taste arghhhh but love me some no bake bars.
I love that you used brown rice syrup in these! It’s so delicious, and gives everything a rice krispy treat-like flavor to everything. Yum!
Yay for protein powder. The ones I get usually have a ton of extra vitamins in them too, so I like to think of it as a nice little boost to my day.
These look delicious! Can’t wait to make these. I like adding protein powder so that will be a nice addition.
I love that these don’t require a food processor. I mean, I love mine, but I do realize that not everyone owns one (although I think everyone should…I’m biased).
Yayyyy, thank you!! Since I killed my Food Processor, I SO need recipes like this. And dates – oh yes.
I like Protein Powder once in a while, but morre in smoothies than in baked goods. There are so many delicious gluten free flours around here, I really don’t need the strange flavor of the powders.
Haha I totally use dates in like 90% of my bars/balls too. They’re just so good! I’m not a big fan of protein powder either. Like you, I use it maybe once in a blue moon, but I never really love the taste it imparts. I’d rather just add protein in other forms like Greek yogurt or hemp seeds or something!
I use dates in nearly anything. What is a good substitute for the protein powder or can I just omit it? Seriously I have no idea how I ever survived without a food processor. It makes life so much better & easy! I wish I could give one to everyone.
I would grind up some oats in place of protein powder. You can try to omit it but it may be a bit sticky!
brown rice syrup is, no joke, my favourite sweetener even though it is least used on my blog. Why, I don’t know. So I like these and I appreciate you pushing the boundaries of your recipes 😉
Ok you might have inspired me to try some protein powder! I have never bought it before, but I love the idea of being able to punch up the protein in snacks like these.
I say nay to protein powder. We don’t need it in our diets. Most people consume way more protein than they actually need. Real food tastes better too. Although these bars do look really good, and I probably have a giant tub or protein powder at the back of my pantry which I could use up.
Thanks alot, D. in 2015 you make this decision. What happened last year when I was crying with my bowl and spoon?
Brown rice syrup IS key and has always been my sweetener of choice in making bars. Honey turned them into sloppy joes of the bar variety.
Mmm these look tasty! I use my mom’s food processor right now (still a baby), but that appliance would probably be in the top 5 of my kitchen appliance must-buy list when I have my own place.
I like to use protein powder, but it definitely has its place. I don’t need “ALL THE PROTEIN” either, so I won’t be adding it to every pancake and baked good. But protein powder does make a big appearance in my smoothies when there’s no Greek yogurt involved.
Ok ok….. you and Arman have convinced me that I need to try brown rice syrup. But where oh wheeeere do I find it? I’ve never tried looking, so I don’t even know if it’s hard…
Whole Foods! And most health food stores. I didn’t have either around me until one just opened up so now I’m fiending brown rice syrup!
I actually find myself not using protien powder either in recipes or in general that much anymore either! If it’s a post workout smoothie I’ll add in a scoop but I like to eat my oatmeal as oatmeal and bake with real flours and what not! I do have one protien bar recipe that I adore but besides that it just never comes to mind! THESE BARS on the other hand, are gonna make me bust out that protien powder because they look so chewy and hearty and chocolate chipy…my weakness 🙂 I only have chocolate pro on hand, do you think that’ll still work? Hope you’re having a good year so far Davida, I miss hearing from you!!
Aaack, these granola bars look fab! I’ve never used brown rice syrup before, but after hearing you say it’s like edible glue, I have got to get me some. No bake stuff is also always my jam. Pinning this!
I actually have brown rice syrup. It’s been in my pantry for years, after reading Skinny Bitch and then panicking about not being able to eat anything., Oh wait, that means it’s probably expired. I should probably look into that.
You know how I feel about protein powders. It’s another processed ingredient, and since I’m not lacking on the protein front, I’d rather eat whole foods. Plus overconsumption of protein in general can actually be damaging. I’d like to see that post someday. Hmmm, maybe I should write it…?