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Audley’s Cultural Highlights: Summer 2024
Need a book to get lost in on your summer holidays? Or music while relaxing on the beach? The Audley team share their cultural highlights of the summer.
The Best of the Summer Wines, Part 2: Picnics
“Summer Breeze makes me feel fine…” Especially with a glass of wine. In Part 2 of our wine recommendations for Summer ‘24, Audley Senior Advisor and wine connoisseur Annie Coleman offers her picks of must-try picnic wines.
Boxnote: Changes to Non-dom Tax Regime
What does the end of the ‘non-dom’ tax regime mean? Audley Policy Director Chris Maitland answers.
The Best of the Summer Wines, Part 1: BBQs
In Part 1 of our wine recommendations for Summer ’24, Audley Senior Advisor and wine connoisseur Annie Coleman offers her picks of must-try wines for our readers to enjoy at their summer BBQs.
Enhancing Board Resilience: Boards and Crisis Communications
Audley recently delivered an educational session for Women On Boards looking at the critical need to address crisis communications and the pivotal role boards play in navigating turbulent times. Read on for crisis management insights from the session…
Bankruptcy: Coming to a town hall near you?
What’s behind the epidemic of bankruptcies at Britain’s councils? How do we stop it? Audley Director Rolf Merchant investigates.
Tradespotting: WTO Ministerial Conference - stasis or progress?
Chris Maitland, Policy Director at Audley, former diplomat, and trade negotiator, gives a flavour of what to expect at this week’s WTO meeting in Abu Dhabi.
Weekend Box: UN Disunited, Tea Science a Mug’s Game & More
In this week’s Box: A challenger to Vladimir Putin takes a stand, the UN is disunited over China, US-UK relations hit a rough patch over tea & more
2024 look ahead: 5 sink or swim issues for Rishi Sunak
With an election earmarked for later this year, Lucy Thompson dives into the top 5 ‘sink or swim’ issues for the Prime Minister.
UK energy & climate policy: what you need to know
This week at COP28 representatives finally agreed on a deal to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels. Audley investigates where the UK stands on climate and energy policy.
OpenAI: when philosophy enters the boardroom
Lucy Thompson unpacks effective altruism - the controversial movement behind the dismissal and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Autumn Statement 2023: Briefing
Audley’s Rolf Merchant outlines the key points - with political analysis - from the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement.
The skills gap on boards that is holding culture change back
Culture is a company’s secret weapon. Annie Coleman, a Senior Advisor at Audley, argues that we need to look beyond traditional skill sets to get this right.
What does Rishi’s reshuffle mean for the Tory Party?
Chris Wilkins, Audley CEO and former Head of Strategy at No10 sets out what this reshuffle means for a divided Conservative Party.
Dispatches: notes from a Rio favela
Following a visit to gang-controlled Rocinha - the largest favela in Brazil - Imogen Beecroft offers her reflections:
Weekend Box: AI Safety Sum-Up, Taylor-Nomics & more
In this week’s Box: What happened at PM Rishi Sunak’s AI Safety Summit, Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher’s marketing overhaul, Taylor Swift becomes a pillar of the US economy & more
Labour Party Conference: All that glitters is gold?
Lucy Thompson was on the ground in Liverpool this week for the hotly-anticipated Labour Party Conference. Here’s what she made of it:
Tories in Manchester – united?
Audley’s Rolf Merchant picks out five themes that emerged from Conservative Party Conference 2023.
Sunak’s strategy may struggle to survive contact with reality
At the Conservative Party Conference this week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak presented himself as the change candidate. Audley’s Chris Wilkins argues that this strategy is more rhetoric than reality.
Weekend Box: UNGA Pressure, Coup’s Next? & more
In this week’s Box: reflections on the UN General Assembly, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Burberry’s Guerrilla marketing & more