January 23rd 2023
What does 2023 hold for health?
Jack Bell, Account Director at Lodestone, gives his take on the outlook for health this year. Having guided our clients through the turbulence of 2022, Lodestone’s team is well-placed to judge the key opportunities and...
January 20th 2023
Highway to Hell
Buckle up, ladies and gents, for a bumpier than expected ride in Rishi Sunak’s stretch limo tour of the Red Wall. This week was supposed to be the Prime Minister’s big chance to hand out...
January 5th 2023
What I Go To School For
Yesterday, a grateful nation heard from peppy youth pastor Rishi Sunak. Today it was the turn of exasperated headmaster Keir Starmer to lay out his stall for 2023. Shirt-sleeves rolled up, stern face on, GCSE...
January 4th 2023
Take Me To Church
The curate stepped up to the pulpit and surveyed his congregation. He had dreamed of this moment, of course. Trained for it. Practiced in front of the mirror. But it had come a little quicker...
December 19th 2022
Lodestone's Festive Favourites 2022
We’ve had a busy and exciting year at Lodestone, working for more clients than ever before and seeing real impact. But there’s nothing like winding down for Christmas, perhaps with a glass of Never Say...
November 17th 2022
Bad Medicine
It was George Osborne’s genius that he was able to make a virtue of his chosen vice. For a man who ideologically desires austerity - but who is smart enough to understand that the public...
October 24th 2022
Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dancer
It has been a nerve wracking few days for the authors of these notes. At the end of Boris Johnson’s premiership we wrote that ‘we just don’t need to worry about Boris Johnson anymore’. For...
October 20th 2022
Killing In The Name
Turns out she was a quitter, after-all. Liz Truss has resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and will cease to be Prime Minister inside a week. She has done this because she was not...
October 3rd 2022
Treading water
There is a school of thought which says that our collective reaction to ‘u-turns’ disincentivises doing the right thing and encourages a defensive, combative style of politics. If only, so this argument runs, we were...
September 26th 2022
All falls down
Our new Prime Minister is busy briefing that she intends to ‘move fast and break things’. The markets demonstrate that she is achieving this, to a frankly terrifying extent, so she and her chancellor must...
September 13th 2022
Lodestone Insights Live – The first 100 days of the new leader
Overview Lodestone hosted an hour-long Lodestone Insights Live webinar on what the UK can expect from the first 100 days of Liz Truss’s premiership. Speakers included: Martha Dalton - Lodestone’s Managing DirectorChris Blackhurst -...
