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Election 2024: A Swing State Perspective
It’s an election year, and it feels like everything is at stake. Living in a swing state, the intensity is palpable. It seems like we’re the only fish...
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Bean counting and underestimating the impact of farmers never ends well
How best to communicate with farmers without getting a manure surprise. Last week’s Budget raised eyebrows – with some supportive, and some far less...
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How does your AI assistant vote?
‘A bit left-wing’. That’s increasingly how some researchers are describing large-language models (LLMs), the technological model behind the rise of...
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When bad things happen
Professor Sir David Omand is a former senior UK civil servant with a distinguished record of public service. He has spent a lifetime preparing for the...
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Beyond the costumes
As retailers of all sizes gear up for the bustling sales events of Q4 – Halloween, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, and New Year – the season...
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Regional journalism, like horology, is a dying craft
The dictionary definition of a Horologist is a person who maintains, designs and repairs clocks and watches. What the dictionary doesn’t say is that...
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Labour's first Budget goes big on tax
After months of anxious speculation and a Labour Party Conference that was defined by what the Prime Minister and Chancellor didn’t say about their...
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Biers and Bratwurst in… Birmingham?
I hate to use the C word. But walking through the city centre to our Birmingham office, it’s hard not to feel a sense of anticipation at the incoming...
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