September 2022 Newsletter: Running the slide rule over recovery

by Katerina | Sep 13, 2022 | News

For thousands of schoolkids and parents, not just in the UK, September has meant a new one of these. Half empty by Christmas and a discarded box by the following July, the Helix Oxford has become an annual repeat purchase for several decades. Like new shoes, it...

The political challenges facing the UK’s incoming administration

by Katerina | Sep 7, 2022 | News

How will historians make sense of the unremitting political turbulence that has engulfed the UK since the EU referendum in June 2016? Well, it is instructive to step back from the trauma that has played out exclusively in the Conservative Party these past six years....

Don’t write off British factories just yet

by Katerina | Aug 25, 2022 | News

Stagnation looms for British business. New August figures show that the private sector slowed to a snail’s pace as factory output fell and the larger services sector struggled to match July. The S&P Global/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) estimate...

The Show Must Go On

by Katerina | Aug 11, 2022 | News

One of the many great pleasures of being in London for at least part of the summer is the wonderful feeling of leaving a theatre, with hundreds of other happy people, to walk out into a warm evening buzzing with life.  Our love of opera at Buchler Phillips is well...

Battling inflation leaves yet more bruises

by Katerina | Aug 4, 2022 | News

It is no surprise at all that the Bank of England has announced the first 0.5 percentage-point jump in the official lending rate since it was granted independence from the government in 1997. Surging prices over the past two years have been a rude awakening for...

SMEs and the cost of living crisis

by Katerina | Jul 28, 2022 | News

The cost of living crisis is a ‘cost of doing business’ crisis for a very large number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). While inflation hit a fresh 40-year high of 9.4% in June, input price inflation for the 12 month period reached 24%, its highest on record. ...