Author name: David Parkin

I WENT to the seaside in my suit last week. The Welcome to Yorkshire team invited me to join them at a new event called The Business Day at Bridlington Spa. Launched by East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Hull City Council, the fear was that any event organised by the public sector might not […]

HOW do you sum up the election campaign? As far as Theresa May’s Conservative Party goes, I’d quote my late grandfather. Somebody who had lived, indeed served in the armed forces, during the First World War, whenever there was a crisis, or even a minor mishap, he’d exclaim: “It’s the biggest cock-up since Mons.” He

THE challenge of any event featuring more than one speaker is you are always going to have comparisons made by the audience. The Lord’s Taverners Balloon Debate takes that a step further in that it has four speakers and the audience has to vote them out over a series of three rounds. So forget kind

THE Radio 4 Today programme was broadcast from Leeds yesterday morning with presenter Nick Robinson based at the Winder Power factory in Pudsey. Given the city is a key election battle ground, narrowly voted against Brexit and has an economy with a strong manufacturing and financial centre, it provided a unique case study for the

DID you experience this year’s Tour de Yorkshire? Whether you were on the route or just took it all in from the TV, this year’s three-day cycle race was a tour de force. After last year’s downpours and the technical problems that led to the grounding of the aircraft due to carry out the aerial

OF all the jobs I fancy doing, “brand ambassador” is top of the list. You’ve seen them, whether it is David Beckham and Breitling or George Clooney with Omega, down to a flurry of reality TV stars who promote particular products, being an ambassador for a brand looks a great job to me. But who

I WAS strangely enthused and a bit excited by the announcement of a snap general election by Prime Minister Theresa May this week. I say strangely, because I thought after last year’s referendum on Europe, a general election in 2015 and the vote on Scottish independence in 2014, I, like most people, would be a

FAKE News. Or Fake Nooze as dear old President Trump says it. It is certainly the topic du jour. The plethora of news providers combined with the online ease to access news as well as readers’ ability to connect and share it via social media means that it doesn’t take much for content to go

EVERY sport has had its memorable clashes. In boxing Ali versus Frazier stretched to three fights culminating in the Thrilla in Manila. In cricket the Ashes gets the juices flowing every two years when England and Australia clash. And in football every weekend appears to throw up a big match between rival teams at the

ON the day that the government triggered article 50 which will lead to the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, to be hosting an event aimed at helping businesses create and grow overseas trade opportunities, seemed entirely appropriate. We were working with the Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to deliver Let’s Talk…Selling Overseas