Urgent measures needed to rescue hospitality and high streets from irreversible lockdown decline
Scrap business rates, freeze parking charges and halve alcohol duty in radical to save Britain’s pubs, restaurants and high streets from irreversible decline, warns Brendan Chilton.
- 17 February 2021
TechBrunch: Steven George-Hilley founder of Centropy PR
In the first of a new series of interviews with business entrepreneurs and start-up founders, The Commentator caught up with Steven George-Hilley, founder of communications agency Centropy PR to discuss what challenges new businesses are facing as Britain prepares for Brexit
- 16 October 2017
Workers will do better under a dynamic, entrepreneurial economy
Our past tells us that a cluster of talent, skill and competition can work. The Potteries became the centre for ceramics, and the North East the centre for shipbuilding and steel . Now the Thames Valley has a useful cluster in hi tec industries, and London in financial and business services
- 27 October 2013
The Capitalist as hero: The virtue of Walmart
We should reflect on the beauty of a capitalist system which allows a man like Sam Walton to go from humble beginnings and create huge value for the world through employment, lower prices and more choices
- 29 March 2013
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