Energy costs concern everybody. Among current price swings and roundabouts, long-term trends seem to be unremittingly upwards. Predicting several decades ahead is often easier than making monthly or annual forecasts. However, newly released energy statistics offer an instructive snapshot of what is actually happening in UK energy. Jon Herbert examines the numbers. The fortunes of   Read More …

As health and safety threats, terror and online data attacks are often seen as distant risks confined to the news headlines. In practice, they are becoming daily realities that in large and small ways ordinary SMEs need not only to be aware of but also to plan against. Jon Herbert looks at the potential impacts.   Read More …