Posts Tagged ‘Features’
WAG, LCOs and S4C
Last week, the United Nations declared that Welsh remained one of the world’s most endangered languages, despite the fact that there are over half a million fluent speakers according to the last Census in 2001.
This… Read the rest
Opportunities in China
During the last three years, I have pointed out in this blog and elsewhere that Cardiff was the only major city in the UK without a branch of the China British Business Council (CBBC) and that, as… Read the rest
Breaking down Barriers to Business Services Website Enquiries
Your company’s website is the window through which the world looks at your business. It is your company’s advertisement, brochure, receptionist and representative. Most buyers no longer bother… Read the rest
Wales and European Funds
As many of you are aware, Wales was given an unexpected boost at the end of 2006 by qualifying for a second round of European funding.
Whilst being one of the poorest regions in… Read the rest
Banks are bad for your (business) health
Nothing short of scandalous. HBOS, HSBC in particular are back to their old tricks often used in the early 90’s. Adam Price MP highlights the problem.
It is now increasingly clear that
The Economy – where do we go from here?
Last week was probably one of the worst in living memory for the UK economy.
While one government minister was seeing mirages of green shoots, the rest of the country was being battered by economic statistics… Read the rest
The decline of Welsh Manufacturing
Yesterday, I published some new figures on the decline of manufacturing in Wales during the last eleven years of a Labour Government, which showed that the sector contracted by over five per cent between 1997 and 2006, the… Read the rest
Neutering the Assembly
Last year, this blog discussed proposals by the Welsh Assembly Government to introduce legislation to suspend the ‘right to buy’ for council house tenants in Wales.
This was to be one of the first ‘Legislative… Read the rest
Do something – three ways to help Welsh firms now
There are still those who believe that the Welsh Assembly Government can do very little to help the Welsh economy which, given the way that the current lot in power seem to have given up on devolved… Read the rest
