237. The extraordinary story of Britain’s first tech titan
Who was Mike Lynch and how did his tech companies make him a billionaire? How did he avoid prison in an American fraud trial when he’d only given himself a 0.4% chance of winning the case? Why did his...
25 Dec 202556min
236. What M&S can teach Starmer (Part 2)
How Chairman Archie Norman and CEO Stuart Machin are turning round one of the UK’s oldest and most iconic businesses, and how the government should watch and learn from it. If M&S can be great again,...
22 Dec 202535min
235. How M&S saw off the cyber criminals and its plan for the next 100 Years (Part 1)
Is there any worse trauma for a business than a cyber attack? What should you do if it happens? Plus how do M&S decide when to close a store and, if it does, is that the final nail in the coffin for t...
18 Dec 202546min
234. Is GB Energy Starmer’s missing growth plan?
How is GB Energy building a third of Britain's daily energy requirements? Can it hit the government’s clean energy target? And how is it creating high skilled jobs and new cutting edge businesses? ...
15 Dec 202550min
233. The Trump Doctrine: Why Europe Is Failing & Who Wins the Warner Bros Bid?
What are the economic and business consequences for Europe of Trump’s National Security Strategy? How is the US president shaping Hollywood’s future as Netflix and Paramount fight for ownership of ...
11 Dec 202544min
232. How British AI is inventing new materials
How is AI being used to transform how we create new materials? Why did the young British AI company doing it raise most money outside the UK? How might this solve some of our biggest problems like cli...
8 Dec 202544min
231. Can The NHS Afford The UK-US Pharma Deal?
Why is the NHS paying more for new medicines? Will the government at last buy from British tech companies? How can the UK life sciences be more entrepreneurial? Lord Patrick Vallance, the governmen...
4 Dec 202552min
230. Dan Neidle on how Reeves’ tax reforms will work
Why wasn’t the chancellor more radical? How will the new mileage tax for electric vehicles be collected? Is the new mansion tax fair? Robert and Steph deconstruct the budget with tax expert Dan Ne...
1 Dec 202542min
