

Investors have divided into two camps. Those who believe inflation will subside and the rise in prices will prove temporary, and others who fear we are entering a period of high sustained inflation reminiscent of the 1970s. Source: Office of National Statistics, data...
Not all inflationistas wear flares

On COP: COP on
On Wednesday, I travelled hopefully to COP26 – looking forward to the delights of the LNER high speed, low carbon, full fat English breakfast. My best laid plans went awry as LNER cancelled and the much-delayed trip left most of us standing for four hours sustained...
On COP: COP on

We can’t afford to just build greener
We must build less. As the built environment takes centre stage at COP26, the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and of the industry’s responsibility to address it comes into focus. A recent report from the UN’s Global Alliance for...
We can’t afford to just build greener

Should you pay the ransom?
Originally published September 2021. Without cyber insurance your business is vulnerable. An IT department received an email from their marketing team stating that they couldn’t access their files mounted on the file-share server. All file extensions on that...
Should you pay the ransom?

A truth about language
Words embody more than just letters. I have, until recently, been committing a thoroughly modern crime: putting full stops at the end of texts. My children alerted me to the transgression. A full stop is, apparently, ‘aggressive’, because it is ‘conclusive and...
A truth about language