We don't make things any more? Oh, yes we do!
Published Monday 26 April, 2010
Two Leadership Debates down, one to go … and lots of talk and promises about jobs and growth, but not a word, not one syllable, about how we are going to trade our way out of this mess, how we are going to earn our living as a Nation.
So they're under starter's orders!
Published Friday 16 April, 2010
Over the next few days parliamentary business will be brought to an end; manifestos will be printed;
Published Friday 16 April, 2010
So the Prospectuses are out; the written promises are made. Do they actually matter? Will they actually make a difference?
Published Thursday 18 March, 2010
British Airways is one of the most importantly visible promoters of the UK brand in the world. Exporting manufacturers, media organisations, universities, sportsmen and women, politicians...They all benefit from Brand Britain.
The World’s 5th largest economy and yet …
Published Tuesday 16 February, 2010
Averaging out currency vagaries, the UK is the 5th largest economy on Earth; and yet …
Published Thursday 28 January, 2010
Lord Digby Jones addressed over 200 foreign exchange traders and other financial services experts at a Forum at the Bloomberg Auditorium in London. Organised by BGC Partners and entitled "RECOVERY!", he joined with fellow participants Paul Tucker, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and Sir James Sassoon, a former Investment Banker with UBS/Warburg and secondee to the Treasury.
Goodbye and good riddance to 2009
Published Thursday 31 December, 2009
"Business has never been more needed in our societies than in the year ahead" said Lord Digby Jones as the world said goodbye and good riddance to 2009.
Creating wealth in our society
Published Wednesday 25 November, 2009
The CBI meet this week against a backdrop of its members emerging from the most difficult year for business since the second world war. As politicians from all the main parties stream into the conference hall craving the business vote they would be well advised to bear one key fact in mind above all else.
Published Tuesday 20 October, 2009
Tens of millions of people in this country, from the small business woman to the pensioner, from the Dad working away from home to keep his job to the unemployed single mum doing everything possible to get back into the world of work, are looking at the proposed actions of the Royal Mail workers with frustrated disgust.
