Editor's view: A firm-size divide and MPS pricing

The editor's Friday Night Takeaway from 20 June

Jen Frost
clock • 3 min read

It’s all hotting up.

That could mean many things this week, which has certainly heated up. I hopped off a plane from Spain on Wednesday afternoon and had to question whether I was in Stansted or had sat through two and a half hours of a crammed-in flight simulator. Usually at times like this, our inboxes at PA end up flooded with temperature and weather puns. However, the heatwave seems to have put a dampener (sorry!) even on public relations professionals. The only one I've spotted so far is BlackRock Investment Institute UK chief investment strategist Vivek Paul's note that "much like the weather, infla...

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