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Richard Alvin

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Media co. MD, Fmr gov advisor, business mentor & NED. Hon teaching fellow & Entrepreneur in Residence at Lancaster University. Classic car custodian

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Hot tip, guv? Trump, Truth Social and insider trading on subscription

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By Richard Alvin Verified
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Business Matters In the early nineties I used to go to the dogs at Walthamstow with a man called Terry, who sold tips in brown envelopes for a fiver a time. He had a sheepskin coat, a biro behind each ear, and the unshakeable confidence of a man who had once, in 1987, correctly predicted six winners in a row. Terry’s genius was not knowing which dog would win. Terry’s genius was understanding that a queue will always form behind anyone who claims to know first.
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Would you renew this supplier? Burnham and the Hillsborough Law

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By Richard Alvin Verified
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Business Matters Every quarter, in a meeting room with bad biscuits, my team and I sit down and score our suppliers. It is not glamorous work. Delivery against promise, invoice against quote, excuses per annum. At the bottom of the spreadsheet sits a column, polite but lethal, headed renew. Last month we struck off a firm we had used for nine years. Lovely people, always a pleasure on the phone.
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World Cup 2026: Air-conditioned stadiums v 39C heat, is this really a level playing field?

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By Richard Alvin Verified
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Business Matters There is a phrase beloved of every business school lecturer, every venture capitalist and every man who has ever worn a gilet to a breakfast meeting: the level playing field. It is the founding myth of competition itself, the idea that we all start from the same line, breathe the same air and sweat, roughly speaking, the same sweat. And this summer, FIFA has taken that noble concept, marched it into the Philadelphia sunshine and left it there to blister.
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