Christian May

Christian May is Head of Communications and Campaigns at the Institute of Directors.

Articles

Enterprise

In defence of profit

What does a business do with the profit it makes? Toss it in the air and dance beneath it? Stash it away in offshore accounts? Transfer it all to the boss’s pay packet? There are plenty of people who think this is exactly what happens. They’re the people who spit the word profit, who consider […]

Enterprise

Business leaders must come out of hiding and defend markets

Another day, another survey showing just how low trust in business has fallen. This has been a consistent theme for commentators and policy wonks since the crash of 2008. For some people, it was an important area even before the Great Recession. The problem, however, is that businesses (and pro-business advocates) have accepted this as […]

Enterprise

Uber needs to mind its manners

“This won’t turn out to be as peachy as it looks,” said my cabbie as he dropped me off. He was finishing a conversation that I had begun shortly after he picked me up on Pall Mall in central London. We were now pulling up at my favourite pub in Hammersmith, so it was a […]