All but a handful of the UK’s biggest companies missed last week’s deadline to set out their plans to put more women on their boards. Only eight companies in the FTSE 100 have announced how they aim to meet the target of 25% women directors set down by the government. Proportion of women on boards […]
Manchester is in The Top 3 for Business!
Something we who live and build businesses in Manchester know already is that Manchester is one of the top places in the UK to run a business. There are a number of reasons for this – the fact you can get anywhere in the North West in under an hour from Manchester and you can […]
Burka Ban in France – a Political Smokescreen ??
Burka Ban in France – a Political Smokescreen ?? There has been much media noise around the ban on the Niqab in France that came into play this week. There are very passionate arguments on both sides – at the bottom are a selection of comments taken from the BBC website – all of whom […]
Some good news on the Economy at last with inflation falling against the odds
Well, its about time isn’t it. Dear dear, not good news for the media and doom mongerers. Inflation has fallen – against all predicitons of it going up to 5% it actually fell to 4% in Feb. Quite obviously nobody should be getting overly excited about this – it is still too high, but at […]
Vince Cable is going to discuss me with George Osbourne – apparently!
Let me explain. 2 weeks ago I was interviewed (not just me) for a Radio 4 show which was aimed at asking the businesses of Greater Manchester what the government need to do to support business in the North West. I raised a point about the new initiative on employer NI – which says that […]