by Lee Fielding, Editor | Nov 18, 2025 | Global Trade
If you strip out the spin, 2025 was the year the UK’s export story finally came into focus: goods had a rough ride, services quietly did the heavy lifting, and the US (for well documented reasons) stopped being the easy win. Here’s what actually happened. The...
by Lee Fielding, Editor | Nov 18, 2025 | E-Commerce Trends, Global Trade, Retail & E-commerce
For those unaware, Singles’ Day was China’s retailing equivalent of Black Friday. And much like Black Friday, Singles’ Day was the retail story of the year in China: a 24-hour frenzy of flash deals, crashing apps and ever-bigger sales numbers for Alibaba...
by Lee Fielding, Editor | Nov 12, 2025 | E-Commerce Trends, Retail & E-commerce
If 2024–25 was about “plug in AI and hope,” 2026 is about making it pay. I’m a marketing manager at an e-commerce consultancy, which means I spend my days inside dashboards, stand-ups, and far too many experiments. Below is the short list I’m telling clients to...
by Lee Fielding, Editor | Nov 12, 2025 | Business to Business
With the Autumn Budget on 26 November 2025, the shape of policy is being set as much by the fiscal framework as by politics. The new rules (current budget surplus target and a debt rule on PSNFL, not PSND) compress headroom into the OBR’s year-3 view—so “paid for and...
by Lee Fielding, Editor | Nov 12, 2025 | Business to Business
Family law is mid-pivot. Two shifts are quietly rewriting everyday practice: first, the hardening of NCDR from “encouraged” to effectively compulsory—with real costs exposure for unreasonable refusal. That changes how we front-load cases, document risk, and brief...
