More trouble ‘down the rub-a-dub’

More trouble ‘down the rub-a-dub’

by | Apr 2, 2024 | News

Britain’s pubs will be totting up the long weekend’s takings, hoping that mixed weather over an earlyish Easter wasn’t too much of a dampener. Sadly these things matter in an industry that has at best limped along since Covid and saw nearly 800 boozers enter...
EV troubles cast a shadow over early stage tech

EV troubles cast a shadow over early stage tech

by | Mar 26, 2024 | News

Britain’s fledgling electric vehicle industry seems to have run out of juice – but we shouldn’t be too hasty in writing off our entire tech sector. Lunaz, backed by football legend David Beckham, this month put its commercial transport arm Lunaz Applied...
Covid loan fraud bounces back on sole traders

Covid loan fraud bounces back on sole traders

by | Mar 12, 2024 | News

Almost four years after the government’s Bounce Back Loan (BBL) Scheme was rolled out to save small businesses at risk from pandemic lockdowns, closer scrutiny of businesses now unable to repay the loans is leading to action against  an increasing number of...
Letter from London – Budget Review

Letter from London – Budget Review

by | Mar 7, 2024 | News

Plenty of political hopes and fears have been invested in today’s Budget, which was probably the final set-piece financial event before this year’s UK General Election. From the Conservative perspective, after two relentlessly gloomy years of economic and...
Council crisis takes another lurch downwards

Council crisis takes another lurch downwards

by | Mar 5, 2024 | News

The financial crisis facing Britain’s councils is deepening. A new poll of local government leaders and managers claims to show, for the first time, the true extent of a structural funding issue that is leaving authorities close to bust. Only 4% of council leaders...