The Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP’s) in Liverpool, Lancashire and Manchester are not delivering according to polls conducted by Downtown in Business this week. The results from each area can be viewed HERE for Liverpool, HERE for Lancashire and HERE for Manchester. So what has gon... [More]

Three years ago those wonderful souls who sit in the House of Commons were having an extremely uncomfortable time of it. Their expenses claims were being scrutinised more than they have ever been before following an investigation by the Daily Telegraph, and it emerged that some of them had been rath... [More]

Up until a week ago, the chances of a North West city adopting a governance model that was being promoted by the coalition government appeared remote. After all, Manchester and Liverpool have council’s with large Labour majorities, and both had indicated that they were likely to campaign aga... [More]

A few months ago I wrote a piece about my increasing disillusionment with modern day football – or perhaps more accurately modern day footballers (Falling out of Love). I blamed the sky money, the wider media hype, and the astronomical salaries that even the average among them earn. But th... [More]

It is no secret that retail has been one of the hardest hit sectors during the economic downturn. Huge traditional brand names including Woolworths and more recently Peacocks have bit the dust, and unquestionably the advent of the internet and on-line shopping has had as big an impact on this indust... [More]