Michael Northcott

Michael is Editorial Director at Mulberry Publications and draws from experience at a wide range of well-known B2B magazines, including Management Today, Legal Business, and Retail Week. Feel free to drop him a line with any stories or feature ideas.

Apr- 2020 -

24 April

Business Bites

Retail landlords reined in, France gets touch on tax havens, and insurers face biggest ever payouts

The government has banned landlords from using winding-up orders against their retail tenants, after aggressive rent collection tactics which threaten…
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23 April

Business Bites

Scarves for face-masks will be part of the government’s post-pandemic advice

The government will advise the use of homemade facemasks once the pandemic measures are sufficiently relaxed for people to go…
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22 April

Business Bites

Will there be coronavirus help for small company directors who are paid by dividend?

The financial plight of limited company directors has been raised by the Tory chairman of the Treasury select committee. Mel…
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21 April

Business Bites

Oil prices plunge, Virgin Australia could crash land, Nasa robots controlled from the kitchen table

Oil producers in the United States will pay you to take their barrels as global demand has plummeted amid government…
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Mar- 2020 -

30 March

Business Bites

The minimum wage increase is about to hit – and it beggars belief

As if to bang the final nail into the coffin himself, we can only assume the Treasury’s top man, chancellor…
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26 March

Business Bites

Wetherspoons’ boss was right to withhold wages

The media and the Twitterati have had a field day vilifying the founder and owner of pub chain Wetherspoons over…
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24 March

Business Bites

The furloughs and loans are useless to small businesses

The small business community has been watching with great hope to see if the government will introduce measures that are…
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23 March

Coronavirus

PM bans ‘non-essential retail’, instructs public to stay at home

The UK public are only allowed to venture out of their homes for essential supplies and one exercise outing per…
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13 March

Business Bites

BT’s boss catches it, markets rebounding, pain medication prices spike

Today I am going to rattle through a wider selection of stories than normal because the spread of the virus…
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10 March

Business Bites

Banks to help us all out with coronavirus fallout

Once again the business pages on all major news outlets are pretty much dominated by the developing story of coronavirus…
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