Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 5th December 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 22nd December 2017). With Christmas approaching, many family businesses will be under pressure to produce the products or services they provide to the nation. The private sector employs over 26 million…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 1st November 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 21st November 2017). Britain is arguably the world’s oldest continuous democracy. It is a country admired by people everywhere. A place where free speech is a fundamental part of law, even if…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 4th October 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 10th October 2017). The spirit of friendship is an important emotion, without it our world would seem hollow and pointless. This was made obvious to me during my recent visit to…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 2nd August 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 2nd August 2017): BRISTOL has many icons. I’m not talking here about famous people, as much as famous “manufactured” items. Cabot’s original timber ship, The Matthew, which was possibly built in Bristol…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 4th July 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 4th July 2017): Democracy is a great thing and I am by inclination a democrat but every time I put the TV on it seems there are rival politicians screaming at…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 7th June 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 7th June 2017): WITH the general election upon us tomorrow and Brexit talks due to begin ten days later, my thoughts have gone to how Britain will survive and prosper regardless…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 4th May 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 3rd May 2017): Stephen Fear has been thinking about the forthcoming elections WE ALL suffer from election overload at some point during general elections but the importance of voting is paramount and…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 5th April 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 8th April 2017): IT seems to me that the British Government is getting all the blame for not coming out early and guaranteeing residency for immigrants already living in the UK. But surely…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 1st March 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 1st March 2017): Stephen Fear looks back at the city’s proud heritage BRISTOL has long been a media centre, with the BBC located on Whiteladies Road in Clifton, and being a…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 1st February 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 1st February 2017): THE rhetoric is over and, against all the odds, Donald Trump is now US President and has taken up residency in the White House. What does this mean…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 4th January 2017 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 6th January 2017): Stephen Fear, of the Fear Group, takes a closer look at the city’s need for new homes HOUSING, and the provision of private and publicly owned affordable homes,…
Original article written by Stephen Fear for the Bristol Post on 7th December 2016 (also featured on SouthWestBusiness.co.uk on 8th December 2016): Stephen Fear, of the Fear Group, believes Bristol has a bright business future With its two brilliant universities, two aspirational football teams and one potentially great rugby team (not…
Stephen Fear of Fear Group gives his thoughts on Brexit BRITAIN was once a famous manufacturing nation, with the likes of Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, and Rover, being coveted around the world. Driving along Whiteladies Road in Bristol the other day I counted 100 cars of which 46 were German, 26…
I was at The University of the West of England last week, looking at the new building for the faculty of business and law taking shape. Watching the final touches being put to this building made me think how far UWE, and indeed Bristol, has come over the last 30 years.…