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Is the UK quietly giving up on its small businesses?

There is a contradiction at the heart of the UK economy. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) employ six in ten people and generate £2.8 trillion in turnover, yet when consumers were asked if the UK is a good place for them, only 23% of consumers said yes. That figure should stop us in our tracks. When confidence in SMEs is low, it seeps into...

25 September 2025 Fintech

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The Second Death of the High Street

If you’ve walked down a British high street, particularly one in a smaller town, then you will have noticed a change. Certain shops are gone forever, many are boarded up or replaced with charity shops, vape liquid retailers and the like. If an independent coffee shop or craft goods shop opens anywhere but the wealthiest areas, they have their wor

19 August 2025

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Innovation Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Progress

In 2013, Google launched an ambitious and attention-grabbing experiment: Google Glass. Marketed as a glimpse into the future, it promised a seamless blend of digital and physical reality through an augmented-reality headset. Journalists were enthusiastically promoting it as early as 2012, and by the time its soft launch came around industry obser...

02 July 2025

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