Opinion
Reform of business rates is moving at snail’s pace
There has been a flurry of calls in recent months urging for a rebalancing of business rates – with some warning that a failure to act…
Sunday 20 September 2026
Charlie Mullins is the archetypal entrepreneur having started Pimlico Plumbers from scratch and building it into a multi-million pound enterprise. Always opinionated and often controversial, Charlie’s common sense attitude has earned him a reputation as one of the UK's most outspoken entrepreneurs.
There has been a flurry of calls in recent months urging for a rebalancing of business rates – with some warning that a failure to act…
The clamour to push remote working as some sort of post Covid future is sending business leaders into a tizzy.
The case of the workshy driver who won an employment tribunal despite being spotted at a bar after phoning in sick is a fine example of…
It’s fantastic to see no less a person that the head of universities admissions service UCAS supporting my life-long appreciation of apprenticeships, and the fact they…
In the past I've criticised bosses for jumping on the 'work from home' bandwagon in the hope of saving a few quid on running offices and…
It’s not often that a multi-national investment bank such as Goldman Sachs shares a common bond with another fine city institution - Pimlico Plumbers!
Enshrining a right to work from home into law would be anti-business and set back any chance of a quick recovery from the pandemic.
When I started talking about vaccine passports some months ago, I didn't think it was a huge stretch to imagine a United Kingdom where society would…
It’s strange to think that someone who has worked as an investment banker and is now the Chancellor under a Tory Government would turn out to…
As I gazed into my crystal ball a few weeks ago it struck me that vaccine passports were the future.
After today’s Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers should be classed as workers and not self-employed the inevitable comparisons with our old case have already started.
It is no surprise that in the past 12 months we’ve become a one-issue nation. Even if it’s not the battle against COVID-19 itself, it’s the…
Who’d have thought putting the health and safety of your people and the public first would create such a fuss!
The Chancellor put himself in the driving seat to ‘Restart’ the economy but the ignition failed and someone appears to have stolen the satnav.
Businesses have rolled over and absorbed far too much of a basting from this Government over Covid and it’s time to stand up and tell it…