Steering stricken landlords and tenants into calmer waters

Steering stricken landlords and tenants into calmer waters

The lockdown periods of the Covid-19 pandemic took a significant toll on commercial property owners (landlords), having faced rent defaults and voids as business occupants were unable to operate and many have had to close their doors for good. Equally, businesses able...
Heavy Metal and Electronica can still produce big UK hits

Heavy Metal and Electronica can still produce big UK hits

UK manufacturing is by no means dead – it’s just different these days. Before Brexit, Covid and driver shortages, the sector faced fierce competition from emerging economies in Asia, primarily China and India, which are clearly able to produce goods more cheaply....
October 2021 Newsletter: So what happens now?

October 2021 Newsletter: So what happens now?

A well-known City figure wrote, in autumn 2019, about his annual get-back-to-work routine. Only six months before the first lockdown, he reminisced about having always started the school year in September with a new pair of black shoes, and how he’d continued the...
Magic memories – An appreciation of Jimmy Greaves

Magic memories – An appreciation of Jimmy Greaves

My first memory of Jimmy Greaves was when he played for Chelsea in the late 1950s. Even to a youngster like me, it was obvious that he was supremely gifted and able to play football at a different level to most others. When he left Chelsea in 1961 to join AC Milan, it...