From haute cuisine to high fat, French food is changing fast
Forget the long lunch break. Abandon all thoughts of stopping off at a little boulangerie and your local traiteur to...
3 October 2018
2018
The hidden cost of the electric car boom – child labour
Last year, more than one million electric vehicles were sold. By 2020, it’s likely that will rise to 4.5 million, or...
24 September 2018
From climate change to parcel peak – we need more zen in our lives
Natural disasters triggered by climate change. We hear about them on the news, but sitting here in the UK, or...
23 August 2018
Four meals from chaos: Are we just in time for anarchy in the UK?
Way back in the 1990s I worked for one of the UK’s most well-known and loved high street retailers. It...
30 July 2018
Is it time for a radical rethink of the high street?
If you type ‘the future of the high street’ into Google (and this probably works on Bing and all the...
31 May 2018
2017
Playing the yes/no game with Amazon
Have you ever listened to one of those radio phone-in show competitions where listeners call in and could win a...
4 May 2017
The Great British High Street: a tale of death and disruption
Sometimes the writing is on the wall. Sometimes it’s on the pavement. Once the scene of busy, bustling, commercial activity,...
4 March 2017
A good start to the new year? You must be choking
So, how’s 2017 working out for you so far? As I sit writing this we’re not even out of the...
24 January 2017
2016
Returns: the retail crisis everyone could predict
Research from Barclaycard in 2016 highlighted something we’ve all known for a while – handling returns can be bad for...
15 December 2016
How to turn your unknown expert into a media success story
News-jacking. Issues-tracking. Call it what you like, but a rapid response to breaking news has long been a route to...
22 October 2016