Regular readers of this blog will be aware that for some considerable time I have been predicting a comfortable victory for the Conservative Party at the next General Election. Not a landslide, as some polling evidence has suggested in recent times, but a win with a decent majority of between 30-40 ... [More]

Last year Downtown hosted two events that looked at the business of football. Two of our speakers, Insolvency Practitioner Dave Acland of Begbies Traynor and football finance expert Professor Tom Cannon from Liverpool University told us that sooner rather than later a Premier League club would go bu... [More]

The future of the North West Regional Development Agency has been the subject of much debate as we approach the General Election, with likely winners the Conservative Party proposing the abolition of the strategic economic development organisation. I have expressed the view previously that such a m... [More]