While planning and coordinating the perfect festive activity for the whole company can be a daunting task, taking note of a few helpful tips and tricks can ensure you plan an end of year celebration that will be the talk of the office afterwards for all the right reasons. Confirm the date early on December is one month of the year where everyone’s diaries almost certainly get booked up fast; both weekends and weeknights. Luckily, corporate celebrations are always high...

Can your business keep up with the speed of customer demands in the 21st Century?  Today's customers expect everything from their internet connection to their product delivery to be faster than yesterday. And nowhere more so than in London. Customer expectations have always evolved over time, and part of maintaining a successful business has always been to understand and meet these expectations better than the competition. However, the sheer rate at which those expectations are changing in the new millennium...

Construction trends continue to rise, while Health and Safety incidents decline.  The London skyline evolves year by year. While construction will always be a high-risk profession, Health and Safety in the UK’s Capital is second to none. Statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive have confirmed what the construction industry has intuitively known for some time – that London is leading the world in the implementation of Health and Safety practices. On the eve of London Build 2016, the...

Manage and market your content to compete and thrive in the 21st Century.  Content marketing is hailed as the future of marketing strategy. Make the right marketing choices to avoid drowning in the rising ocean of content on the internet.  Traditional marketing is dead. Long live content marketing! So says the Content Marketing Institute, but can we really believe that or is it just – well, clever marketing? Online opinions are divided as to whether content marketing is the next...

Pension crisis leads many to consider other investment options for retirement. With markets struggling and the pound in crisis, take control of your pension fund and invest it in ways that will promise better returns for the future. Annuities have been struggling for some time, but over recent weeks they have taken another hit, with some government gilts now offering a negative return. This followed a failure by the Bank of England to meet its target of buying £1.17bn of...

The Ministry of Defence has admitted the British air force was involved in the military action which killed over 60 Syrian troops in a case of mistaken identity. The soldiers were in fact fighting against IS, but tragically this information was shared to prevent the unnecessary loss of life. The attack was thought to have been carried out by US, Danish and Australian forces, however a Tweet from the MOD (Ministry of Defence) has admitted the attack involved the British...

The fire service got a record number of call-outs to obese people last year, rising from just over 700 in 2012 to 944 in 2015-16. Firefighters are being called to move obese people from buildings because they are too large to move independently. According to a spokesman for the National Obesity Forum, the problem is worsening because obese people are getting larger. Tam Fry told the BBC: “This is not about more people being obese. “This is about those who are already obese...

Former underdog Jeremy Corbyn is on course to beat challenger Owen Smith and will most likely be re-elected leader of the Labour Party next week. But then what? From purges to merges, deselections to elections, here are ten things to keep an eye on: 1. Reselections It used to be the case that before every election, Labour MPs would have to sit down and persuade their local parties to let them keep their seats. This process was called mandatory reselection, and it was abandoned in 1990. Local...

The Burkini row in France is still rumbling on, now a Muslim woman from Australia has spoken out, after she claims she was forced to remove the beachwear while in France. The woman was wearing the Burkini to show solidity with fellow Muslim women who had been forced to remove their chosen swimwear, while on certain beaches in France. Images emerged of one women being forced to remove her burkini by four policemen carrying guns. The woman in question, a...