ANYONE who tells me they enjoy reading my blogs and then invites me to an event is almost certain of my attendance. And so it was when a complimentary email arrived from Douglas Adamson, inviting me to the launch of his second novel. Having never read the first one, I thought I ought to play […]
JUST to confirm, the photograph above isn’t of Theresa May’s new Cabinet, or even a recreation of the meeting of the five families from The Godfather. It was taken this week in the boardroom of Yorkshire Bank’s headquarters on Merrion Way in Leeds at a retirement lunch for David Maybury, the head of the bank’s
IF you’ve been feeling a bit unsettled given the political and financial uncertainty of the last few weeks, then a trip to the Great Yorkshire Show is one way of reaffirming your confidence in the world. Tens of thousands of people descend on the Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate for the countryside’s annual three-day shindig. You
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IF there is one thing that has emerged since the vote to leave the European Union, it is that businesses are looking to focus on the positives amid the uncertainty. Whether you voted to remain in the EU or leave it, the reality is that financial markets and the pound have been hit hard by
IT’S been a funny old week. Last week’s blog was sent out just as we all were digesting the shock EU referendum result. And the vote was quickly followed by England’s defenestration from Euro 2016 by Iceland. For the UK to reject Europe via the ballot box and then for the England football team to
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