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Lloyds Banking Group must reflect on poor decisions
On pretty much every level, share price, turnover, profitability, shareholder return, customer satisfaction, public perception and actually bothering to turn up to work, let’s face it, the Group Chief Executive of Lloyds Banking Group, hasn’t had a great 2011. It’s the right decision that he has chosen not to take his bonus this year. But [...]
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The Max Mixtape January 2012…
And we kick off the New Year with my favourite upcoming release for 2012.Natalia Kills “Kill My Boyfriend”. Great track. Great video too. Pixie Lott. She’s back with “Kiss the Stars”. Funnily enough this looks like it will be a big ‘un for the start of the year. Time to catch up with a few [...]
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Residential Property Prospects 2012
No one predicted many of the extraordinary events of 2011.There’s an argument to say that any conjecture on 2012 could be futile. However one thing I did suggest during the course of 2011 was that property looked like a good investment. Many economic analysts predicted another market meltdown. Yet they were wrong. That’s not to [...]
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If 2011 was a year to forget will 2012 be one to remember?
Unlike many of you, I have been working over the Christmas and New Year period. That means as you get to go back to work and feel depressed about everything, I can reflect as I take a couple of days off to think about what 2012 may bring. 2011 was a turbulent year both here [...]
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December Max MixTape Part 2
If you don’t scroll to the end of my MixTapes you are MISSING out dear reader. I have a real treat for you later on. Anyway. Time for the second of this month’s Max MixTapes. If you liked Made in Chelsea, which I rather did, one of the tracks heavily featured was Avicii “Levels”. It’s [...]
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Fixing the nation’s High Streets
With a great fanfare, Mary Portas the TV face of shopping was appointed by the government to review the future of our high streets. She has made 28 recommendations in her report that was published on the 12th December. If you want to take a look for yourself, here they are. Much of what Mary [...]
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Europe. The UK is a Celebrity. Get Us Out Of Here!
If you don’t like what’s on the menu, you tend not to visit the restaurant. Well, that’s what I would have thought; yet for years we have been dining at the European table thinking we have to be there in order to make a difference. Britain and its people want a very different EU from [...]
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December already?! Oh my.
Here’s my latest Max MixTape for you. Always like Flo Rida. “Good Feeling” is just that. Cheer up everyone! I’m not getting rid of my iPhone no matter how cool this Deadmau5 gig was for the launch of the Nokia Lumia 800… using the side of Millbank Tower in London. This is proper cool though. [...]
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Clarkson for PM!
Shock horror. Jeremy Clarkson makes an outrageous comment. Oh my. How terrible. I am so shocked I might even need a lie down. As a result, Unison has called for Jeremy Clarkson to be fired whilst taking legal advice. The Prime Minister has been drawn into the discussions and commented that “was obviously a silly [...]
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The elephant in the room
We didn’t learn very much from George Osborne from his Autumn Budget Statement. We knew the news was going to be grim. And it was. Similarly we didn’t learn much from Ed Balls the Shadow Chancellor. We knew he was going to say that the current economic malaise was the chancellor’s fault. And he did. [...]
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