In this week’s WB: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's homecoming, the Online Safety Bill arrives, Dua Lipa’s ‘record scratch’ moment with two copyright infringement lawsuits, and much more.

Senior advisor to Audley and former British Army officer, Jamie Lowther Pinkerton provides analyses Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, and whether it is, in fact, achieving President Putin’s aims.

This week’s WB covers the Foreign Secretary’s visit to Moscow , Reddit’s Wall Street gamble, the data-driven fears of activists in Myanmar, Taylor Wimpey’s new Executive and this year’s Göteborg Film Festival.

Following the Pacific Future Forum, Lucy Thompson explores the complex picture of the West’s relationship with China.

With Germany going to the polls in perhaps the most consequential election for a generation, the result is on a knife-edge.

Audley Intelligence's Chris Wilkins speaks to Sir John Tusa, author, presenter and former managing director of the BBC…

We are on the precipice of a talent revolution and business leaders are ill-equipped to face it

The working generation have never lived through chaos like that wreaked by COVID-19. In 18 months, the pandemic has upended organisations which seemed infallible and forced business leaders to pivot in previously unimaginable ways.

In Audley’s meeting with Forum, CEO Chris Wilkins, was joined (virtually) by former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rt Hon David Gauke, to discuss Rishi Sunak’s recently announced Budget.

In this blog, Fiona Johnston writes about Emilia, a play about England’s first published female poet.

To mark World Book Day, the Audley team to tells us about a book they’ve read that changed the way they think.

Amid the rise of Nextdoor, Lucy Thompson, a Senior Associate at Audley looks at the power and potential of social media

Audley’s Chairman, Sir Michael Lockett explores the impact the absence of leadership skills could have on gender equality

Venues will close post-COVID, but that doesn’t mean the arts shouldn’t still exist. We need to shift our emphasis from objects and institutions onto community experience. Everything we’ve created has been around the importance of buildings themselves, rather than the people within them and the communities around them.

The global conversation about the environment, at all levels, has sky rocketed. 2020 was, broadly speaking, an unhappy stew of events. The ongoing swirl of the climate crisis mixed with persistent societal inequality and a dollop of pandemic thrown in for good measure, has caused more of us than ever to sit up and engage with the world we live in.

As of January 2021, vaccines are being deployed across the world. Soon the lockdowns will end but can we expect to go back to the business world we knew before the pandemic?

Four years ago, while searching for a theme to headline the prime minister’s ‘Lancaster House’ speech on Brexit, I coined the phrase ‘Global Britain’ to capture the government’s vision for the role a post-Brexit UK would play in the world.

Last year, the US experienced one of the most tumultuous years in our history – and certainly in my lifetime. Globally, the Trump era saw America loosen bonds with our allies and contend inconsistently with our rivals and adversaries.

While many commentators claim we have entered a new era of geopolitics and left an old era of globalized commerce, it is wrong to oppose these two scenarios. Globalization and geopolitics are not antithetical forces, as if rivalry reverses interdependence. Without the imperial ambitions of the Romans, Mongols, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British, and Americans, we would have no globalization.

During the recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, drone technology appears to have proved decisive in defeating conventional armoured forces – tanks, to you and me. This suggests that we are entering one of those periods when the equilibrium between offensive and defensive technologies on the battlefield becomes mismatched; the latest chapter in the old story of longbow versus knight, machine gun against mass infantry attack, carrier-borne aircraft and battleship.

In the face of the second wave of the pandemic, the government reimposed restrictions on economic activities, which are still in place today. These differ significantly from those seen in March in several respects. Manufacturing and construction are not subject to new restrictions, and many ‘non-essential’ retail stores have improved their capabilities for online ordering and home delivery, while consumers are more accustomed to using such services. This will mitigate the short-term impact on output.