![]() Rita Ora shows off her incredible figure in a racy gold bikini as she enjoys Christmas Day in Australia 'Today I'm thinking about my old pal and his family': Bill Bailey pays tribute to late comedian Sean Lock in heartfelt Christmas tweet Sofia Richie and British beau Elliot Grainge rock matching plaid face masks for Christmas Eve lunch in Beverly Hills The Queen's Covid Christmas: Her Majesty misses out on Windsor Castle service attended by Charles and Camilla, Edward and Sophie The Queen delivered her most personal message 'Christmas can speak to the child within us all': Read the Queen's 2021 Christmas Day speech in full The Little Mixer, 28, showcased the inking Jade Thirlwall unveils her unique new leg tattoo to commemorate the day Little Mix were formed a decade ago The Pussycat Doll, 40, looked sensationalĬarol Vorderman, 61, showcases her hourglass figure in a tight gold dress with thigh high split as she celebrates Christmas Day Love Island's Katie Salmon is ENGAGED! Star who made history in show's first same-sex couple with late Sophie Gradon shares happy news on Christmas DayĪshley Roberts sends temperatures soaring in a black bikini as she celebrates Christmas on holiday 'This isn't the Christmas I envisioned': Selling Sunset's Maya Vander, 39, spends the holidays with her family after suffering stillbirth at 38 weeks His critics may continue to mock, but to the CBI yesterday Boris Johnson was delivering a timely reminder that our future prosperity depends on entrepreneurship, vision, imagination and innovation. There is no question that Britain's creative industries are rooted firmly in the private sector. That is why the Government's £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund was a lifeline during the pandemic.īut as we emerge from the worst of the crisis, recovery for the creative sector, like the rest of the economy, must be firmly rooted in private enterprise.Ĭhancellor Rishi Sunak must continue to resist calls from Labour for taxes on entrepreneurship and capital. Higher taxes on enterprise will only drive potential investors in creative Britain elsewhere. Much of the output will be edited and turned into TV series and films in the post-production studios dotted around London's Soho and in Media City in Manchester.Īs for video gaming, at a time when much of the UK economy struggled during Covid, our gaming industry had a record year, accumulating a remarkable £7billion in sales. ![]() It is ploughing £3billion into turning the studios into Europe's mini-Hollywood, deploying cutting-edge tech and creating 2,000 jobs. Sky Studios at Elstree has become the great centre for technology innovation and production for American cable giant Comcast. ![]() We have a vast British creative sector that makes up almost 10 per cent of the economy when all components are taken into account – almost the same size as the City of London's world-beating financial services industry.Ĭreative Britain's expertise ranges from the James Bond film franchise to the vocal and songwriting genius of Adele and Ed Sheeran, to computer gaming and JK Rowling. Indeed, the Harry Potter author is an export industry all of her own.Īs for UK broadcasting skills, these have converted Premier League football, F1 motor racing and international rugby into lucrative commercial assets fought over by traditional broadcasters such as America's NBC, and newcomer Amazon Prime.Īnd animation – let's not forget the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit – represents a vital slice of UK broadcast and film. Peppa Pig World in Hampshire suffered the same fate when the UK theme park behemoth, Merlin Entertainments, owner of Madame Tussauds in London, was sold to a private equity consortium (which included a Canadian pensions investment company and the family behind the Danish brand Lego) for £5.6billion. If there is a downside to the Peppa Pig story, it is that the ownership and control of the brand have been allowed to fall into the hands of overseas buyers.Įntrainment One, the company that owned Peppa Pig, was sold off to US toy giant Hasbro for £3.3billion in 2019. Similarly, British architecture leads the world, from Norman Foster's Bundestag dome in Berlin to David Adjaye's Museum of African History in Washington DC. ![]() These parallel the excellence of our life sciences – not least the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine – and of course the explosion here of fintech (financial technology).Ĭompanies such as Worldpay, a spin-out from the Royal Bank of Scotland, have transformed the global payments system. 'Mr Johnson sees Peppa Pig as a symbol of the energy and originality of the private sector'
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