2023 is expected to be an exceptionally tough year for the UK economy. The country is almost certainly already in a year-long recession, one that will probably prove to be deeper than that experienced in the early 1990s. The squeeze on household real incomes will intensify as rising interest rates join soaring inflation. Admittedly, the […]
With inflation having reached a 40-year high this year and the economy predicted to shrink in 2023 Paul Farrer, the CEO and founder of London-based recruitment giant Aspire calls on the new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, to bring “certainty, stability and confidence” to the UK jobs market by addressing a number of key concerns urgently. Firstly, he […]
There are serious questions over the future viability of Making Tax Digital (‘MTD’) following yesterday’s announcement that it is to be delayed by two years to April 2026. Nimesh Shah, CEO of tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg said:” It is over 10 years since the original digital transformation project was announced by George Osborne in 2015. There […]
Long before the pandemic struck, many companies were already looking to digital transformation as a means of saving costs and driving efficiencies. However, the instruction to work remotely following the emergence of COVID-19 left many of those organisations yet to adopt collaborative tech tools, and with little choice but to do so. Matt Weston, founder […]
Jeremy Hunt hit the TV and radio studios yesterday like a whirlwind. Hours into his new job as chancellor, his task was to calm the financial markets, which had so brutally moved against his predecessor and triggered surging borrowing costs for homeowners. But has he done enough? Can his words calm turbulent gilt yields when […]
UK citizens awoke to dramatic news on this morning as headlines declared that the pound had slumped to an all-time low against the dollar. The media and political debate links this decline to Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s recent mini-budget which commenced a shift towards redefining England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as low-taxation economies. Nevertheless, the mini-budget […]
The widely trailed mini-budget of our new Government has provoked howls of protest from the massed ranks of economists and commentators who, until last week, represented conventional wisdom. Sometimes it is right to kick against orthodoxies – to defy the ‘not how things are done around here’ mentality. And at long last, HM Treasury is […]
Professor John Bryson, Chair in Enterprise and Economic Geography at the University of Birmingham offered his opinion about the economic measured announced today by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Professor Bryson is an economic geographer whose research focusses on understanding people, organisations and the complex ways in which production is organised through space, place and various forms of […]
UK SME’s have been very dismissive of Kwasi Kwarteng emergency mini budget, with some branding it as “Trussmoronics not Trussonomics”. We have spoken to a number of UK SMEs to get their reaction to the emergency mini budget that Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss hope will see Britain extricate itself from the current financial crisis engulfing the […]
In your quest for media traction you’ve now worked out your identity and inherent personality through your God-given face, you’ve handpicked, culled and pruned your associates, you’ve established and weighted the hierarchy of your ‘doing selves’, and expertly blended a potpourri of gestures, intonations and visual queues into a unique ‘cartoon-self’. Finally, the nose of […]