It was twenty years ago today. No, I’m not referring to the famous line from the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but to the time when I wrote my first business column for the Western Mail back in January 2003 when it was still a broadsheet.
Fast forward to 2023, and over 800,000 words later (which is more than the word count for both War and Peace and the Bible) I still consider myself extremely lucky to be given the opportunity to write every week on subjects that are so close to my heart including the economy, enterprise and, of course, championing Welsh businesses.
I am also privileged to be given the opportunity, through the column, to speak truth to power. Whilst that has not always endeared me to some politicians here in Wales, it is increasingly important that policies are questioned in public arenas such as newspapers especially when very few people are prepared to put their head above the parapet.
