The fourth estate is bankrupt.

by roger mitchell | Nov 12, 2023

The creative industries have a big problem. They can’t monetise their elite talent and IP.   This is today’s Sunday Column, whose hook is this… People now seem to have no concept that great content or creativity really needs to be paid for, to continue to...

Reason and accountability is overrated in sport.

by roger mitchell | Nov 5, 2023

  As conversations around impending market crashes intensify, especially amongst an older community of finance professionals, many of us remember the start of our careers in that industry. The go-go years of mid 80s Big Bang, Masters of the Universe, and...

Prioritising Quotas over Excellence is Wrong.

by roger mitchell | Oct 29, 2023

  Full disclosure: I’ve never been convinced by positive discrimination, quotas, and the rest. I worked in South Africa long enough to see the nonsense of Black Economic Empowerment. Basically a racket for the insiders who came to power. We are all children of...

Bayonet the Wounded.

by roger mitchell | Oct 22, 2023

Anyone really involved in the realities of the sports business 2023, as opposed to podcast/conference chat and corporate spiel, knows it is currently a brutal battlefield.   Today is not Yesterday. I personally know of no player, big or small, in this sector, not...

Running towards the sound of gunfire.

by roger mitchell | Oct 15, 2023

My old Chairman at the Scottish Premier League, an ex Sir Humphrey type mandarin at Whitehall, called Lex Gold, told me so many things of value. I was young, and he’d seen it all, at the highest level:   Never run towards the sound of gunfire, young man. For some...