17th February 2021

Moving City Hall from Central London to The Royal Docks

On 3rd November 2020, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, confirmed plans to relocate London’s City Hall and the seat of the…

3rd February 2021

External factors challenging the aerospace and defence sectors

The commercial aerospace industry has always been volatile. Tight profit margins and competition mean that only those with the correct business model…

28th January 2021

The Ultra Low Emission Zone

In 2003, then Mayor of London Ken Livingston introduced the Congestion Charge Zone in Central London. In the mid-1990s studies concluded that…

28th January 2021

The impact of Brexit on the construction industry

The construction and infrastructure industry is one of the largest sectors in the UK, it employs around 3.1 million people, around 9% of the…

28th January 2021

UK national security post Brexit

During its time in the EU, the United Kingdom had the advantage of being able to access a number of real-time Europe-wide shared crime…

20th January 2021

Neom – Saudia Arabia’s futuristic city

The word Neom is a portmanteau of two words, the Greek word ‘Neos’ and the Arabic word ‘mustaqbal’. Neom translates to ‘future’ in…

13th January 2021

Consequences of the SolarWinds hack

A ‘highly sophisticated cyber espionage operation’ has successfully been operating under the radar of the US Cyber Command, Homeland Security and the…

17th June 2020

Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone – a sign of things to come?

On 8th June, Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) came into being. But what is it, how did it come to be…