A week in America | 30 July 2021
This week, Martin discusses the fallout for Simone Biles’ decision to quit the U.S. Gymnatics team.
Time to shuffle the deck
Downtown London chair, Simon Danczuk, dicusses why ti might be time for Boris to reshuffle his cabinet and explores who should dtay and who should go.
Labour market turmoil
Jim looks at the turbulent employment market. Some firms are looking at laying off staff at the end of furlough, whereas others are begging chefs and lorry drivers to come and work for them.
Home away from home
This week, Chris McKenna reflects on the past few months and his delight at visiting the core cities DiB operate and getting back to live events.
Chop this tall popinjay!
Has levelling up the North been abandoned? Is the government spooked by voters in Amersham? Jim looks at the prospects for real money and power being devolved to our cities, towns and countryside.
Our consistently inconsistent PM is a Disastrous Leader for a Crisis
‘U-Turn’ may not have been in Margaret Thatcher’s vocabulary – but its top of Boris Johnson’s political playbook. Frank McKenna reflects on the Prime Ministers tendency to change his mind at the tip of a Twitter storm in his latest Downtown blog.
The Third Way on Covid
Ryan Wain from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change discusses how the way beyond Covid isn’t a binary choice between lockdowns and ‘freedom day’, there is infact a third way.
A week in America | 23 July 2021
Martin Liptrot takes a look at the US embargo of Cuba and its impact it has had on the Caribbean island during COVID.
A week in America | 16 July 2021
Martin Liptrot looks at the G20 meeting discussing the corporate reform tax and its potential impact on multinational companies.
The death of the mail piece is greatly exaggerated
Julian Gilbert, Managing Director at Nationwide Franking Sense explains why direct mail still has a place in Marketing departments.
TORIES ON WRONG SIDE OF CULTURE WAR – SHOCK
The Prime Minister is usually a master at tapping into public opinion. But he and his team have scored an own goal in their attitude towards Gareth Southgate and his squad according to Downtown boss Frank Mckenna.
FOOTBALL WON’T BE COMIN’ HOME.
Jim was at our World Cup victory in 1966 and draws on his experience of that year to comment on the ugly scenes outside Wembley on Sunday and their potential consequences. He also has strong views about the idea that we should all allow our lawns to run wild!