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Every January, millions of people resolve to get healthier. They join gyms, hire trainers, and put themselves in environments engineered for progress. The formula is obvious: the right expertise, the right structure, and the right people make improvements inevitable.

Treat Your Business Like Your Body This New Year 

15 December 2025 Columns, Opinion Andreas Adamides 0 Comments

Every January, millions of people resolve to get healthier. They join gyms, hire trainers, and put themselves in environments engineered for progress. The formula is obvious: the right expertise, the right structure, and the right people make improvements inevitable.

Each December, the festive season seems to arrive sooner than expected. As employees strive to meet year-end deadlines, the responsibility of organising the annual Christmas social arises without warning.

From planning to applause – How to run a Christmas team event they’ll talk about in January

30 November 202530 December 2025 Columns, Opinion Annaliza Sturge 0 Comments

Each December, the festive season seems to arrive sooner than expected. As employees strive to meet year-end deadlines, the responsibility of organising the annual Christmas social arises without warning.

First came the scrapping of VAT-free shopping, sending high-spending tourists — and their wallets — to Paris and Milan. Now London faces a second hit: a proposed nightly hotel levy. As businesses warn of declining sales and shrinking visitor numbers, is the capital intent on taxing its way out of competitiveness?

Is the government intent on killing London’s hospitality sector with a double-whammy tourist tax?

25 November 2025 Columns, Opinion Richard Alvin 0 Comments

First came the scrapping of VAT-free shopping, sending high-spending tourists — and their wallets — to Paris and Milan. Now London faces a second hit: a proposed nightly hotel levy. As businesses warn of declining sales and shrinking visitor numbers, is the capital intent on taxing its way out of competitiveness?

When Britain’s adopted steel king Lakshmi Mittal, gala-favourite philanthropist and one of the country’s most visible billionaire residents, quietly announced he was shifting his tax residency to Switzerland, it barely caused a ripple in Westminster.

The rich are fleeing and our charities may be left holding the bill

24 November 2025 Columns, Opinion Richard Alvin 0 Comments

Rachel Reeves’ non-dom overhaul is driving Britain’s top donors overseas. Could UK charities become the biggest losers as major philanthropists depart?

Dragon Capital is entering Ukraine’s critical infrastructure through two channels — via the Amber Dragon infrastructure fund and a separate private Power One joint venture with former Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi.

Reeves urged to set out how £2bn AI investment will be spent in Autumn Budget

19 November 2025 AI, In Business, Opinion Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Blick Rothenberg says Rachel Reeves must clarify how the £2bn AI Opportunities Action Plan funding will be spent, warning that new taxes or cuts to incentives could harm the UK tech sector.

When I first started taking clients out for dinner, you could sit under the copper dome of Le Gavroche, order a bottle of claret you’d never dare drink at home, and—after a couple of courses, a soufflé, and a few discreet nods from the maître d’—leave only mildly lighter in wallet and spirit.

Fine dining’s death by a thousand cuts, and at least a £250 bill

17 November 202517 November 2025 Columns, Opinion Richard Alvin 0 Comments

Opinion: Richard Alvin argues rising energy costs and Rachel Reeves’ policies risk killing Britain’s fine dining scene, as £250 dinners become the norm.

As a sustainable business owner, I’ve always believed that every choice we make, from the suppliers we trust to the packaging that carries our products, reflects our values.

The EUDR: A Challenge and an Opportunity for Small Sustainable Businesses

15 November 202512 December 2025 Columns, Opinion Rachel Watkyn 0 Comments

As a sustainable business owner, I’ve always believed that every choice we make, from the suppliers we trust to the packaging that carries our products, reflects our values.

Aviva chief executive Dame Amanda Blanc has urged the chancellor to rethink plans for a major clampdown on salary sacrifice schemes, warning that the move would penalise both employers and workers while damaging long-term pension saving across the UK.

Aviva chief warns Reeves that salary sacrifice tax cap would be ‘bad news’ for Britain

14 November 2025 Opinion Paul Jones 0 Comments

Aviva CEO Dame Amanda Blanc warns that Rachel Reeves’ plan to cap salary sacrifice tax benefits to £2,000 a year would penalise employers, raise NI costs and discourage pension saving. Aviva posts strong Q3 results despite concerns.

There is something exquisitely British about watching a government try to sweet-talk the very people it is about to fleece. Like putting out the good biscuits before the bailiffs arrive.

A canapé and a tax raid: Labour’s new love letter to business

14 November 2025 Opinion Richard Alvin 0 Comments

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s latest charm offensive with top CEOs comes just weeks before Rachel Reeves’ tax-heavy budget. Richard Alvin argues why Britain’s business leaders aren’t buying the sweet talk

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, integrity is “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” In theory, it’s a simple word. But in the workplace, it can be one of the hardest qualities to sustain – especially in leadership.

How Leaders Build Trust by Leading with Integrity

11 November 2025 Columns, Opinion Lesley Leach 0 Comments

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, integrity is “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” In theory, it’s a simple word. But in the workplace, it can be one of the hardest qualities to sustain – especially in leadership.

The head of one of Britain’s best-known law firms has warned that Rachel Reeves’s reported plan to raise taxes on limited liability partnerships (LLPs) could drive professionals and entrepreneurs out of the UK, undermining London’s status as a global business hub.

Mishcon boss warns Reeves that LLP tax hike risks exodus of professionals

9 November 2025 Opinion Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Mishcon de Reya managing partner James Libson warns that Rachel Reeves’s reported plan to raise taxes on limited liability partnerships could drive lawyers, accountants and entrepreneurs overseas, damaging Britain’s competitiveness.

The UK economy flatlined in July, with GDP growth stuck at 0 per cent as a sharp contraction in manufacturing weighed on activity at the start of the third quarter.

Reeves’ ‘exit tax’ plan branded “reckless and self-defeating” by leading wealth adviser

9 November 2025 Opinion Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ reported plan for a 20% “exit tax” on wealthy individuals leaving the UK has been branded “reckless and self-defeating” by deVere Group CEO Nigel Green, who warns it could trigger a flight of talent and capital.

Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not usually in the business of tutting at shoes. I’m not the keeper of the brogue, nor the patron saint of patent leather.

Sorry Gordon, whilst you own the restaurant, but trainers with a tux? really?

8 November 2025 Columns, Opinion Richard Alvin 0 Comments

Richard Alvin questions Gordon Ramsay’s white-trainer look at David Beckham’s knighthood dinner — modern flair or a step too far for fine dining?

Richard Alvin on why Rachel Reeves’ looming 26 November Budget feels like London’s business community waiting for its final sentence.

Waiting on Reeves: London entrepreneurs face the gallows

2 November 20252 November 2025 Columns, Opinion Richard Alvin 0 Comments

Richard Alvin on why Rachel Reeves’ looming 26 November Budget feels like London’s business community waiting for its final sentence.

When I founded Invicta Vita, I knew that building an exceptional team would be the cornerstone of our success. What I didn't anticipate was how fundamentally my thinking about hiring would evolve.

Why we must give graduates a chance: Building teams that blend youth with experience

30 October 20257 November 2025 Columns, Opinion Georgina Badine 0 Comments

When I founded Invicta Vita, I knew that building an exceptional team would be the cornerstone of our success. What I didn’t anticipate was how fundamentally my thinking about hiring would evolve.

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