Until further notice...

... I'll be blogging at http://business-writer.blogspot.com until I can figure how to improve the layout of this EDP blog so that is easier to read. Hoping the EDP team can help sort this soon so that we can get back to blogging here before the autumn

Black Swan event at Whitlingham

If you read the financial press you will have heard about Black Swans - a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his fascinating book on the effect of unexpected, and often catastrophic, events on financial markets (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/0713999950). 

A real local business hero

Just read this excellent article on the EDP Business website - http://business.edp24.co.uk/members/editorial/coverStory/story.aspx?brand=BIZOnline&category=Features&tBrand=BIZOnline&tCategory=Features&itemid=NOED13%20Mar%202009%2010%3A42%3A54%3A957 -

Hate to say I told you so but...

I am no economist, but back on 19 December 2006 I wrote an EDP24 blog on the precarious state of the housing market - for which I received an equal mix of abuse and ridicule from various supposedly better informed people (not least from a couple

Plight of the Bumble Bee

Native British bees are dying out — and with them will go flora, fauna and one-third of our diet. We may have less than a decade to save them and avert catastrophe. So why, asks Richard Girling (in this brilliant yet scary article from today's Sunday

You have probably heard these already...

...but just in case you haven't, here are a few funnies to drive away the doom and gloom - enjoy. Who is an optimist? A banker who irons five shirts on a Sunday. What's the difference between an investment banker and a large pizza? The pizza can still

The wrong policies will only make this crisis worse

 And that is not just my view. Thank you to the person who posted the following quote on the Daily Telegraph site yesterday. Apparently it comes from an open letter (which appeared in the New York Times) that was addressed to President Obama and

Keep on dualling to keep the economy trucking

Right now the government is proposing spending a lot of money on various wheezes to try to help our messed up economy keep rolling, at least long enough to get them through the next election. Most of their ideas are wrongheaded and will simply distort

Why hasn’t British business launched a new mutual business bank?

On 26 November 2008 I was at a conference on Shaping Norfolk’s Future.  The panel of speakers included local, national and international business leaders and at the forefront of most people’s minds was the credit crisis and the damage it was doing

How can Norfolk businesses exploit the opportunities of 2012?

As a Parish Councillor (for Trowse with Newton), I am trying to encourage businesses in the Norwich area to start thinking about how to get the most from 2012.  Not least the fact that the award winning Outdoor Education Centre in Whitlingham Country

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Hope you all have a wonderful time with family and friends.  Keep well. Best wishes for a very prosperous 2009.   H

Why Mangreen? Harford Bridge would make more sense.

Further news in today's EDP (see http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=NOED12%20Dec%202008%2008%3A34%3A57%3A167) of the proposed development of a "new county

Some dull predictions revisited.

Back in May I made some rather dull predictions - it seems worth revisiting them to see how we are doing: In a year's time (May 2009) we will still be speculating on: Whether and when the USA will invade Iran (it probably won't) - so far

Bring diabetes to light

Did you know that diabetes is one of the most common chronic illnesses affecting children?  Did you know that it can strike at any age?  And did you know that is it is often overlooked or misdiagnosed as flu? No - neither did I - yet as

Saving old English words

Apparently, Collins Dictionary (in a blatant plug for the latest issue dressed up as a news story) is asking people to help save some old English words by using them more - so here goes! The banks will soon be exuviating their olid debt, which is has