The Brexit I love versus the Brexit I fear: A British renaissance or a missed opportunity January 19, 2017 What will the UK economy look like outside the EU, 10 years from now? Nobody knows the precise answer to this question but we can generate likely potential scenarios. What follows are two scenarios, the Brexit I love and the Brexit I fear. The Brexit I love is where the UK is open to the [...]
These are the world’s most valuable brands: Apple and Google winners in ranking dominated by tech industry October 5, 2015 Apple has been named the world’s most valuable brand, followed by Google and Coca-Cola, once more topping Interbrand’s annual ranking. The tech industry dominates the ranking, as more than half of the world’s top ten brands are technology companies, according to the Best Global Brands report published today. Bullish earnings and record-breaking sales of the [...]
Arsene Wenger thinks Premier League clubs could surpass the £235m spent in January 2011 this month January 11, 2016 Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has predicted a bumper month of spending by Premier League clubs in the January transfer window that could surpass the record £235m lavished in 2011. Top-flight teams have shown signs of loosening their purse-strings following a slow start to the window, with Bournemouth’s capture of Lewis Grabban from Norwich yesterday taking [...]
Channel your inner Attenborough with a trip Australia’s Great Barrier Reef February 22, 2016 “Look, over there – a bull shark.” My guide, Mark, points out the sleek, contoured shape with its distinctive dorsal fin and bluntly-shaped head – one of the most dangerous of its kind in the world – lazing idly in a sun-dappled patch of translucent, turquoise water. My heartbeat accelerates slightly, but thankfully there’s no [...]
ITV and miners gain but FTSE finishes down – London Report December 22, 2015 LOSSES from Associated British Foods and Smith & Nephew during yesterday’s trading dragged the FTSE 100 index down, as ITV, Glencore, and Antofagasta surged. The UK’s top blue-chip index closed 0.29 per cent down at 6,034 points. ITV led the pack after it emerged Comcast’s NBCUniversal was reportedly bidding to takeover the home of Downton [...]
RIBA’s new exhibition looks at how architects have rebuilt cities destroyed by natural disasters February 25, 2016 Nobody knows how many people died in the fire. Six deaths were recorded, but many were thought to have been incinerated beyond recognition and many more cooked alive in temperatures exceeding 1,700 degrees Celsius. The streets resembled the lower circles of hell and the Great Fire, as it became known, was the second tragedy to [...]
How Tyrrells aims to be the big cheese (and onion) of the crisp world January 28, 2016 Six years ago, David Milner received a phone call from private equity firm Langholm Partners, the former owners of Tyrrells Crisps. They needed help. After an eight-year growth spurt, sales at the posh crisp brand had turned rather stale and Langholm wanted the former Mars and Campbell’s Soup executive on board. “The first thing I [...]
Tim Peake’s launch mission to the ISS is the start of a new era for the UK space industry as UK’s National Space Policy is announced December 16, 2015 All eyes have been on a desert in Kazakhstan this week. Baikonur Cosmodrome has seen the launch of the first human spaceflight, Sputnik and the first orbiting satellite. This week saw another first for this historic site, and a great leap forward for the UK space industry. Tim Peake has made his ascent to the International Space Station becoming the first [...]
Heathrow airport expansion: There’s no need to make a stark choice between a third runway and the environment December 1, 2015 During the summer, the government made a commitment to announce a “final decision” on airport expansion by the end of this year. Since the office Christmas party season has already begun, that deadline is fast approaching. Yet in recent days, there have been reports of possible further delays. This would almost certainly cause investor [...]
The power of the poppy as the symbol of Remembrance Sunday November 6, 2015 With August marking 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, our troops leaving Afghanistan and ISIS marauding across the Middle East, remembrance seems ever more poignant this year. Growing up, I always thought Remembrance Day was about the First and Second World Wars, but these days there is so much more [...]