Category: Opinion

Dragons’ Den is a popular TV show that welcomes entrepreneurs to pitch their business to five wealthy investors.

What is turning in to the most exciting season in years took another twist at the British Grand Prix. With defending champion Lewis Hamilton now trailing his bitter rival (and teammate!) Nico Rosberg by just one point, fans are being kept at the edge of their seats.

In the next in this series of articles prompted by the referendum result and our reactions to it, I urge us to acknowledge our fear based feelings in decision making and then to go ahead and make a decision anyway

It’s been just over a decade since Facebook entered into the mainstream. Since then, social media has undoubtedly had a profound effect on all aspects of our lives. But what has the impact been on the generation of young people that grew up surrounded by, and immersed in, social media and other digital technologies?

In what will no doubt be remembered as an otherwise turbulent few weeks in modern political history in this country, I am intensely confident about two things. First, that Theresa May is assured of a comfortable victory in September and, second, that she is indeed a safe pair of hands, whatever her detractors on the left or right say.

My earlier article (The Referendum Result – What’s your drug….. fear…. anger….. smugness?) drew plenty of comment. Some supportive of the point of view I made and others quite clearly still stuck in the conflict and a few obviously trying to perpetuate the conflict. Perhaps if they continue to argue they will change the result or reinforce it.

 Let us rewind to 1996, a time of intense emotional distress, with Take That parting ways and the joys of that Paul Gascoigne goal. If you had been asked about how the cloud would impact your business during this rollercoaster year, your response would have had more to do with the chances of rain rather than anything to do with cloud-based analytics.

As I write this we, Great Britain, is currently in the following situation.

What the EU Referendum result means for the UK only time will really tell. What is clear to me is that we have been given choice, of which, 73% of the voting population went out and cast their vote. In doing so 52% have chosen for us to leave the European Union.