Mary Portas: Queen of Shopping Centres
I don’t like fashion much. Or shopping for that matter. So I just ignored the story today about Mary Portas becoming the government’s high street tsar. Until Paul Lucas pointed out that there might be...
View ArticleMary Portas’ links to firms causing the high street crisis
Mary Portas today unveiled her report into the state of the UK high street. She claims it is at crisis point. As one Rotherham retailer on Sky News pointed out, since the big chain stores left their...
View ArticleA Rambling Review of 2011
‘Tis the season to be lazy. Given all media outlets for miles around are happily soaking up the mulled wine and mince pies while skeleton crews press ‘play’ on a long ago pre-recorded round up of the...
View ArticleTop ten blog posts of 2013
People (well colleagues at Claremont) have accused me of only blogging when I’m angry. But, it appears, I’m just giving the public what they want. Behold my top ten most read blog posts of 2013: 1)...
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