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Richard Alvin

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London, New York
As seen in: Business Matters Magazine, Electric Home, Travelling for Business, 24/7 Wall Street, EV Powered, Finvestly, dontworrybuy.com
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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As founder and Group Managing Director of Capital Business Media, now with offices in London, New York and Florida, where Alvin is based. He built Business Matters into the UK's largest business magazine, which now operates alongside titles including Travelling For Business, EV Powered, Not Ltd and Property Portfolio Investor. He is also chairman of Trends Research, the SME-focused research firm founded in partnership with the Telegraph Media Group.
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Not a policy, just a ringtone: the UK wildfire alert and net zero policy clash noisier than the Royal Albert Hall’s organ

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By Richard Alvin Verified
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Business Matters At seven o’clock on Friday evening, every mobile phone in England and Wales went off at once. Not a ring. Not a polite buzz. The screech. That ten second government klaxon previously reserved for floods, incoming missiles and, we now discover, the disposable barbecue. An entire nation shot two feet into the air. At the Royal Albert Hall, one imagines the Proms audience concluding that Russia had hacked every handset in the stalls to give the 1812 Overture an unusually literal opening.
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Please remain seated: Westminster’s war on vertical drinking

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By Richard Alvin Verified
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Business Matters Last Thursday evening I stood in a pub off Brewer Street with a pint in one hand and an elbow on the bar, talking with an old friend that I regularly find myself taking over the media world with. By the second pint we had solved the skills crisis, where Spurs will finish next season and I’d advised him on his new electric car purchase.
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Eat up and get out: why dawdling diners are killing UK restaurants

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By Richard Alvin Verified
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Business Matters A restaurateur friend of mine, who I shall not name because he has to keep serving these people, rang me recently with a tale of woe. A couple had arrived at his place at one o’clock on Saturday, ordered a burrata to share, one sea bass, a single glass of picpoul and a jug of tap water, and were still there at ten past five.
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