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What Actually Happened in the UK Export Market in 2025?

by Lee Fielding, Editor | November 18, 2025 | Global Trade | 0 Comments

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...

China’s Singles’ Day is Still Huge. The Buzz? Not so Much.

by Lee Fielding, Editor | November 18, 2025 | E-Commerce Trends, Global Trade, Retail & E-commerce | 0 Comments

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 and its...

E-commerce Trends to Actually Watch in 2026

by Lee Fielding, Editor | November 12, 2025 | E-Commerce Trends, Retail & E-commerce | 0 Comments

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...

What Can and Can’t be Assumed About the Upcoming UK Autumn Budget – Accountancy Insights

by Lee Fielding, Editor | November 12, 2025 | Business to Business | 0 Comments

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...

2 of the Key Changes in UK Family Law in 2025-26

by Lee Fielding, Editor | November 12, 2025 | Business to Business | 0 Comments

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...

China’s Singles’ Day is Still Huge. The Buzz? Not so Much.

Nov 18, 2025

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 and its...