Bill Midgley - nebusiness.co.uk

Comment: An extra day off for the leap year?

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THERE is one small crumb of comfort that may help the UK economy in the first quarter of this year in that February has an extra day.

Comment: Short-term thinking has let us down

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

IT would appear that hairstyles are in the news at the moment with the banks, in particular, preparing for a haircut on their loans to Greece and possibly other eurozone members.

Comment: The future of business depends on change

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:00:00 GMT

A LARGE part of the scientific fraternity is getting itself into quite a state over the possibility that Einstein’s theory may be under challenge.

Comment: We should grasp high-speed rail opportunity

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT

THE response of Newcastle Airport to the news that the possibility of a fast rail link to the region may turn into something more positive was a disappointment.

Comment: Riverside industries promise a new industrial revolution, says Bill Midgley

nebusiness.co.uk — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:00:00 GMT

LAST week I was fortunate enough to be driven along the north bank of the Tyne from Byker into North Tyneside.

Comment: Time for UK to follow the French lead

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:00:00 GMT

AS with many people in this country, I have somewhat mixed feelings about the French. Our nearest neighbours were our enemies for the best part of the last millennium, although, throughout the last century, we were allies against a common foe.

Comment: Young have creativity to sustain our economy

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

OUR young students are often criticised for a lack of initiative and an inability to demonstrate the levels of entrepreneurial flair that will be required to create and sustain the economy of the future.

Comment: A new public enemy

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:00:00 GMT

THE bankers must be feeling a little easier at the moment as their position as public enemy number one has been usurped, perhaps only temporarily, by the venture capital industry.

Comment: Spread a little happiness and it will pay

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 GMT

BY any comparison the banks have an unenviable reputation, unloved at best and evoking somewhat stronger emotions from many.

Comment: We must be honest and tell it as it is

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:00:00 GMT

IN the news last week were details of the first grants from the Government’s Regional Growth Fund, the replacement, at a somewhat lower level than previously, of state aid to stimulate our economy.

Comment: Inflation issue must be tackled

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

AT long last the authorities seem to have awakened to the fact we are suffering a bout of inflation, the disease that has bedevilled our economy for far too many of the past fifty years.

Comment: Businesses are funded by families

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

IA M still having some difficulty in forming a view as to how effective our Coalition Government is going to be in its support of business – particularly in the way it will prompt business growth among smaller and medium-sized companies and business start-ups.

Comment: Vital charities need support at this time

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THE decision by Northern Rock to reduce the percentage of its profits that it donates to its charitable foundation needs to be looked at in the light of what other organisations are doing to support the community in these times of austerity.

Comment: Great pity of wasted opportunity

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

DURING my youth as a grammar school boy in the 1950s modern inventions such as ball point pens were strictly banned.

Comment: Toothless watchdogs need bite

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

THE recently announced increases in gas prices will do little for our personal finances but the effect on business should not be underestimated.

Comment: Let’s not tinker with our time

nebusiness.co.uk — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

THE additional hour gained when the clocks changed back to Greenwich Mean Time on Sunday last was more than taken up by the work involved in changing the various clocks and appliances.

Comment: No thought of vocational training now

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:00:00 GMT

WHILE the debate regarding university fees and the fallout from the new charging system will undoubtedly go on for some time, there is one sector of education that appears to have gone unnoticed.

Comment: Spend call will benefit competitors

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:00:00 GMT

THE hierarchy of the Bank of England do not receive the best press in our region. It is just over a decade ago that the then governor expressed the view that job losses in the North East were a price worth paying if the economy was to recover.

Comment: No substitute for speaking plain English

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:00:00 GMT

LISTENING to national radio at some unearthly hour in the morning does little for my blood pressure, particularly when I have to listen to some of the comments by so-called business experts on particular areas of the economy.

Comment: Dangers of not having all the facts

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:00:00 GMT

AMONG the more serious reading that I have been trying to master this summer has been a book by Peter Browning written in 1986 called The Treasury & Economic Policy 1964 -1985.