Category: Opinion

President Biden’s ambitious plans to hit the ground running by tackling climate change and being net zero by 2050 is good news for UK tech industry which should see increased investment in the UK.

A garden centre boss is urging the industry to stick to the latest set of government guidelines and unless they are offering essential items, to close until retail restrictions are lifted.

It’s a question that you’ve probably had to ask yourself many times since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Over the past year, recurrent lockdowns and tiered restrictions have forced many business owners to adopt a 13-week cashflow cycle and focus on short-term decision making.

The Government should immediately introduce Statutory Quarantine Pay (SQP) so that low paid workers have an automatic right to money they need to support them in sickness or when they have to self-isolate.

Organisations face a crisis of trust this year if they continue to make workplace decisions in the dark.

Hope is finally on the horizon.  Our biotechnology heroes have produced a medical miracle never seen before.

A report recently published by the London School of Economics disclosed that over a million Britons who were previously self-employed may now quit self-employment, ending a trend in British entrepreneurship that has lasted two decades.

Over the past decade, interest in and consumption of plant-based foods has boomed. We live in an increasingly sustainable and health conscious era, where consumers are rethinking what they buy, wear and eat, and where it comes from.

Many workers greeted working from home with glee at the start of the spring lockdown: no more grim commutes on crowded carriages or feeling your life ebb away on the M6, the chance to spend more time with family, and the opportunity to avoid the distractions of a noisy open-plan office.

We are what we eat; so the saying goes. And for those at the forefront of ‘food tech’ that means a diet of innovation designed to chew over some of the world’s most pressing problems.

There is less than one month to go before the end of the Brexit transition period. From midnight on 31 December, the UK will be ‘on its own’ as far as Europe is concerned.

The looming threat of a no-deal Brexit, coupled with a second national lockdown, promises a difficult winter for SMEs on top of what has already been a challenging year.