Acorns Business Club
17/08/2021
Acorns Business Club is an inclusive community, open to all professionals from any industry and with any job title. We are united by our common
UK aiming for innovation superpower status
12/08/2021
Ben Vaas, Commercial Lead at Ayming UK, the innovation landscape across the UK and how the Government can best support it.
Back to office crisis mounts
12/08/2021
We need to get back to the office and meet face to face. That’s Jim’s view in his latest blog as the debate over home working hots up. Jim also pays tribute to the late Lord Smith of Wigan. He had a low profile but was one of the great figures in North West local government over the last 40 years.
A week in America | 13 August 2021
12/08/2021
This week Martin Liptrot discusses the U.S. $1trillion Infrastructure Bill and how the politicians might have a chance to make inner cities rival the suburbs as the place to be.
The Fact about Fighting Fraud – Update from Western Union Business Solutions
05/08/2021
Alex Beavan, head of fraud investigation at Western Union Business Solutions discusses their ever increasing vigilance to keep customers’ payments as protected as possible.
Green agenda needs determination not dither
05/08/2021
Doubts are swirling around HS2 coming to the North and promises on Northern Powerhouse Rail. Jim wonders if the Prime Minister is the right man to deliver on these projects or the wider green agenda where tough choices are needed.
A week in America | 30 July 2021
30/07/2021
This week, Martin discusses the fallout for Simone Biles’ decision to quit the U.S. Gymnatics team.
Time to shuffle the deck
29/07/2021
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
29/07/2021
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
28/07/2021
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!
22/07/2021
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
22/07/2021
‘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.