Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
From a £3.4 billion National Insurance hit to a refusal to cut hospitality VAT, the policies of Reeves and Starmer read like a hit job on…
Britain launches companies brilliantly. It just can’t keep them. Richard Alvin on why the next British unicorn will probably IPO in New York, and what to…
May Day belongs to founders, sole traders and family firms too, says Richard Alvin. A defence of entrepreneurship as labour, and of the silent grind behind…
Richard Alvin returns to the rural economy, and to the village pub at the heart of it. A defence of the countryside’s last surviving piece of…
Six months in, says Richard Alvin, the Workers’ Rights Bill is doing the opposite of what it set out to do — quietly freezing graduate slots…
Resilience is one of those words that gets used a lot in business. But when you strip it back, it’s not complicated. It simply means being…
The 2026 revaluation has clobbered hospitality and independents while warehouses skate. Richard Alvin makes the case for scrapping rates and starting again.
There is a stage in entrepreneurship that many founders and senior leaders struggle to make sense of.
For many small businesses in the UK, April has become a predictable pressure point.
Post-Easter trading data tells a familiar story. Richard Alvin on a high street propped up by bank-holiday spikes and a hospitality industry running on the smell…
A year of Trump tariffs has bitten UK exporters hard. Richard Alvin says Britain needs a coherent transatlantic strategy, not another envoy in a nice suit.
A year after the non-dom regime was scrapped, says Richard Alvin, the data is in. The capital, the giving and the City salaries that have left…
6 April brings higher employer NICs, the rates revaluation, and IHT bear-traps for family firms. Richard Alvin: in Britain, ‘growth’ is something done to you, not…
UK industrial energy is four times the US. Richard Alvin on the slow strangulation of British manufacturing — and the policy choices we are dressing up…
Big consultancies are slashing graduate intakes. Richard Alvin warns Britain’s talent pipeline is breaking, and that the next generation of partners and CFOs has to come…