Solitude is both positive and beneficial and, for the ambitious, necessary. You won’t spend your time contemplating possible X Factor winners; you’ll devote yourself to self-reflection – nurturing an unbreakable and myopic vision for the future that sets you in the crowning chair...
Read MoreWe’re never going to be content. Technology has seen to that. There’s always going to be something new to make a mockery of the old. Since we started pumping our air with the innovative spirit, business as usual hasn’t been business as usual. We’ve been shaking up the dusty establishment, discarding the detritus and devising new ways to work and play...
Read MoreFor anybody striving towards a goal, it’s important to pause and take stock of your work-life balance. Burn out affects the best of us in different ways, and it starts when ‘reason’ becomes disconnected from ‘result’. Going full throttle in circles means you’re not really moving at all – you’re just suspended repeating the same motion without a real horizon – without an actual goal. Eventually, everybody comes to a halt and wonders where they’re headed...
Read MoreBusiness life is rarely smooth sailing for new start-ups. Amidst market saturation and a thousand and one competitors, only certain characteristics, attributes and mindsets are left to determine those that will and won’t survive...
Read MoreIn our turbulent, unstable, querulously rebellious society, it’s no longer cool to be seen shaking hands with big business. By channelling the voice of business interests, Cameron did himself few favours – even if his words and warnings were on the mark. The irony that eludes many spectators is within what Trump currently represents versus his personal history. Whilst being an infamous businessman himself, the blusterous equivalent of our Alan Sugar, his movement symbolises a distinct detachment from a world controlled by the business elite...
Read MoreFor many, Brexit was such an exception. Ignoring, for a moment, the argument that many voters dismissed economic warnings as political blathering, Britain’s choice to leave the EU (or vote to do so) represented a rare moment in which visions of the future were filled with something more than dollar signs. The result shocked not only the nation, but the world – it was a rare moment of defiance, and a break in the order of things...
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Cue Edinburgh, the hilly champion of Scotland’s future. Edinburgh is already the UK’s largest financial centre outside of London and bears the unofficial title of UK’s second capital – a claim that somewhat risks belittling the city’s potential. Because far more important than Edinburgh’s past or present, is its future – as the budding pioneer of a reinvigorated Scotland...
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Some hundreds of years ago a Nordic settlement was founded in Scotland, influencing a large part of the North’s culture. Whilst this doesn’t mean that everyone’s walking about with spiked helmets and Tolkien-inspired dwarf beards (unless you’re of the hipster variety), it does leave enough of a trace for some Scottish hopefuls to follow. In the age of discontent, the ties to the UK aren’t as attractive or as inspiring as the potential ties to their prosperous Scandinavian partners...
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Scotland possesses both wealth and the idea of wealth, but the former still belongs only to a select few. The latter is shared by all, but only as a distant star pleases indiscriminately, and ideas are dangerous when they fail to ever find solid ground...
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It is fair to say that these days the UK’s wealth distribution graphs bear an unfortunate resemblance to an expiring hour glass. Such has been the inexorable draining of wealth from North to South, that Scotland almost invariably looks like a colourless patch of poverty. And you’ll never be confused by London’s location; it’s always the colourful part, the capital’s affluence packaged in striking bright red lipstick like a dolled up lady of the night. But Scotland is certainly not poor...
Read MoreIn this blog series, Reinvention Against Replication, we take a look at the evolution of the UK’s identity on both a national and international scale. From the start of the 20th century to the recession years, the series pinpoints the changing narrative of the country’s internal and external branding, and how individual cities have sought to re-establish their identities in a post-industrial economic climate. Pt.4 Rebranding Britain...
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In this blog series, Reinvention Against Replication, we take a look at the evolution of the UK’s identity on both a national and international scale. From the start of the 20th century to the recession years, the series pinpoints the changing narrative of the country’s internal and external branding, and how individual cities have sought to re-establish their identities in a post-industrial economic climate. Pt.3 Transfusion of London's Tech Start-up Scene...
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