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I PAID a visit to my alma mater the other day. No, not Borstal or Rampton. In the spirit of political correctness, younger readers should refrain from Googling those names. Anyway, I visited the University of Huddersfield thanks to an invitation from Professor Bob Cryan, the vice chancellor, who took part in a round table […]

HE did it. I’ve featured the story of football fan Ed Wood here before. Last August he set out on a quest to break the world record he first set 25 years ago for going to a match at every league ground in England and Wales in the shortest possible time during a season. And

IT’S beer festival season and the latest craze in business circles is a corporate afternoon at a festival. This basically consists of accountants, lawyers and property professionals cramming into the venue for a few hours drinking and socialising before they let the riff raff in. This is done not because these two different groups wouldn’t

WHEN we devised (it sounds so much more strategic than ‘came up with’) the Big Ticket event it was in response to plaintive wails from corporate financiers. Unlike some sectors of the business and finance world, dealmakers are a sociable and lively crowd who tend towards camaraderie rather than backbiting. They moaned that the awards

THEY don’t make them like Sir Ken Morrison any more. Well not that I can see. He may have been 85, but the death of the Knight of the Supermarket Aisles this week came as a shock. He just seemed like he could go on forever, a never-ending font of common sense and bluff Yorkshire

PRIME Minister Theresa May’s early attitude to the Northern Powerhouse idea didn’t appear very enthusiastic. She certainly didn’t back it wholeheartedly and her appointment of the MP Andrew Percy as the Northern Powerhouse Minister came almost as an after thought to the majority of her ministerial moves. The fact he has a portfolio of other

OTHER than this weekly blog (which has variously been described as “ramblings” “scribblings” and “drivel” – and that’s by the people who enjoy reading it) I haven’t really written anything seriously since leaving TheBusinessDesk a couple of years ago. And when I bumped into former journalism colleague Jo Francisco, now press officer at tourism agency

IN a week’s time President Elect Donald Trump gets given the keys to the White House. And those hoping that since his election win in November he has had the chance to reflect and perhaps become more statesmanlike only had to tune into his press conference this week to realise there is not a cat

WADE through the umpteen gongs for Britain’s Rio Olympians and Paralympians and the honours given out to civil servants for simply doing their jobs and there were some interesting and worthy recipients of New Year Honours. I’m not saying our sporting stars didn’t deserve recognition, but the volume dished out did tend to obscure the

BRADFORD doesn’t seem to get much positive publicity these days. Through a combination of unjust views from those outside the city and a local authority which hasn’t always made the best decisions, Bradford has not really been seen with its name in lights very often. So it was great to see that David Hockney’s home