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...
Who advises the advisers?

Who advises the advisers?

Office life in city centres will have resumed this week for many workers, even if they don’t plan to be in every day. While many businesses are leaving town, surprised by how easy it’s been to operate remotely, those based on daily relationships and meetings with...