Stricken TV producers open insolvency toolkit

Stricken TV producers open insolvency toolkit

The ripple effects of a sector’s global downturn will often continue to hurt small operators for long after the big players have steadied themselves. The TV industry, with a long tail of independent suppliers, is a sad example close to home. Recent weeks have seen a...
Factories firing up for a comeback

Factories firing up for a comeback

Debating the UK’s economic future inevitably leads to questioning the strength of our industrial base: what can generate earnings outside financial and professional services, or early stage tech development? Manufacturing’s share of the UK economy is around 10% today,...
More trouble ‘down the rub-a-dub’

More trouble ‘down the rub-a-dub’

Britain’s pubs will be totting up the long weekend’s takings, hoping that mixed weather over an earlyish Easter wasn’t too much of a dampener. Sadly these things matter in an industry that has at best limped along since Covid and saw nearly 800 boozers enter...
EV troubles cast a shadow over early stage tech

EV troubles cast a shadow over early stage tech

Britain’s fledgling electric vehicle industry seems to have run out of juice – but we shouldn’t be too hasty in writing off our entire tech sector. Lunaz, backed by football legend David Beckham, this month put its commercial transport arm Lunaz Applied...