Recent Blogs.- GOAL!!! June 21, 2021I feel out of touch. We’re in the middle of the Euros and I don’t feel engaged. Worse…whenever I hear the word I think of “Uros” or Urology, the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the male and female urinary-tract.What’s wrong with me? What’s not to like about this tribal, […]
- A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD? NO THANKS June 14, 2021When 10 year old tweets by debutant English cricketer Ollie Robinson were revealed it was disappointing. But when Tom Harrison head of the ECB said “it had zero tolerance of racism and sexism” it was awkward. Zero tolerance like the frequently used “I agree with that 100%” boxes the speaker into a corner of intolerance […]
- ZIG WHEN THE OTHERS ZAG June 7, 2021Zig when the others zag was an expression often used in advertising by admen trying to persuade clients to separate themselves from squabbling competitors, all with similar products fighting for consumers’ attention.As we edge out of lockdown and think about marketing again this approach seems relevant especially for banks.Banks deservedly get a bad press. They […]
- THAT WAS A WEEK THAT WAS May 31, 2021It’s been an odd week. At last it’s a bit like summer. The temperature about normal for this time of the year feels like a heatwave. 18C. Get out the shorts. No perhaps not. Not the shorts.Sunshine…. in many ways its made me think of the 1960s and, of course, the Beatles: “Here comes the sun […]
- THE PRICE OF THE PANDEMIC May 24, 2021Plenty of economists are concerned about the possibilities of inflation. Generation Y and Z won’t remember what it was like when we had 27% inflation back in 1978. I also remember 1992’s Black Wednesday when interest rates went from 10% to 15% on a single day as we crashed out of the ERM. That meant […]
- GOAL!!! June 21, 2021