Opinion, Coronavirus

Saluting our business heroes

If the pandemic has highlighted anything it is how important business, small, medium and large, is to the co...

Opinion

Enough is enough! Let's have a devo

I had a letter this week asking me to support a devolution proposal from a North West county.

Opinion

Here's to the next 10 years

If someone would have told you at the start of the last decade that Donald Trump would be the President of t...

Opinion

2020 vision is vital

As we prepare for the New Year, and the beginning of a new decade, it is an opportune moment to reflect on w...

Opinion

HS2: A price worth paying

The financial figure attached to the HS2 project is a big one.

Opinion

Time to join the conversation

In June Downtown in Business hosted events across the North West, in association with Deloitte, to gauge the...

Opinion

Get on with creating a Lancashire-wide Combined Authority

Just when it seemed Lancashire was getting its act together, we have a return to the parochial politics that...