Nicola Pike
@nicolapike.bsky.social
Strategic #marketing leader with a 25-year track record in proposition development, communications, brand building, and engagement within financial and professional services and higher education.
Strictly + Steps + Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom = a winner as far as I’m concerned
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Strictly + Steps + Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom = a winner as far as I’m concerned
Basically describing life in my house for the past 6-7 weeks | The six-seven trend that’s tyrannising maths teachers, explained
www.thetimes.com/article/3175...
www.thetimes.com/article/3175...
The six-seven trend that’s tyrannising maths teachers, explained
Adults are baffled by kids chanting the digits at them. It’s annoying, but it could be beneficial
www.thetimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Basically describing life in my house for the past 6-7 weeks | The six-seven trend that’s tyrannising maths teachers, explained
www.thetimes.com/article/3175...
www.thetimes.com/article/3175...
Need to visit this. Used to spend a couple of days a week working at “the Pyramid” in my Co-Op Bank days
For my @ftweekend.com restaurant review I’m inside the landmark that is the Stockport Pyramid, which has become the Royal Nawaab, an astonishing Indian buffet which is laughing in the face of the challenges facing Hospitalty.
on.ft.com/4mPJ4Ld
on.ft.com/4mPJ4Ld
June 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Need to visit this. Used to spend a couple of days a week working at “the Pyramid” in my Co-Op Bank days
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Exciting things happening in TPI today- we've launched a Policy Unit headed up by Policy Director @andywestwood.bsky.social
Today we have Policy briefings and commentary from Andy, @gilesyb.bsky.social , @timleunig.bsky.social , Professors Stephen Roper & Jun Du www.productivity.ac.uk/policy-unit/
Today we have Policy briefings and commentary from Andy, @gilesyb.bsky.social , @timleunig.bsky.social , Professors Stephen Roper & Jun Du www.productivity.ac.uk/policy-unit/
Policy Unit - The Productivity Institute
How we work with policy makers on critical productivity issues at both a local and national level.
www.productivity.ac.uk
October 3, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Exciting things happening in TPI today- we've launched a Policy Unit headed up by Policy Director @andywestwood.bsky.social
Today we have Policy briefings and commentary from Andy, @gilesyb.bsky.social , @timleunig.bsky.social , Professors Stephen Roper & Jun Du www.productivity.ac.uk/policy-unit/
Today we have Policy briefings and commentary from Andy, @gilesyb.bsky.social , @timleunig.bsky.social , Professors Stephen Roper & Jun Du www.productivity.ac.uk/policy-unit/
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A rich man on R4 just said he would stay in the UK to educate his kids, but then leave so as not to "bankrupt them with our own assets" via inheritance tax.
Must be exhausting to be so focused on playing the system that you can't just use your money to live where you want to
Must be exhausting to be so focused on playing the system that you can't just use your money to live where you want to
September 28, 2024 at 7:01 AM
A rich man on R4 just said he would stay in the UK to educate his kids, but then leave so as not to "bankrupt them with our own assets" via inheritance tax.
Must be exhausting to be so focused on playing the system that you can't just use your money to live where you want to
Must be exhausting to be so focused on playing the system that you can't just use your money to live where you want to
Agree. This is a really good column
Good column - and yes this is the pitch (making it actually happen however…)
www.thetimes.com/article/f885...
www.thetimes.com/article/f885...
PM bets all on British jobs for British workers
By reviving a phrase that used to be toxic, Starmer is challenging both Reform and his party — and he must succeed
www.thetimes.com
September 28, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Agree. This is a really good column
My 2 favourite Dames, Cole Porter and Agatha Christie. What’s not to love? RIP Dame Maggie
September 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
My 2 favourite Dames, Cole Porter and Agatha Christie. What’s not to love? RIP Dame Maggie
Great column from my @productivity.bsky.social colleague @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social in The Sunday Times this morning | Will AI solve the UK’s growth problem? Don’t be so sure
www.thetimes.com/article/752c...
www.thetimes.com/article/752c...
Will AI solve the UK’s growth problem? Don’t be so sure
AI might one day follow earlier technological innovations in boosting productivity, including in public services, but it could be agonisingly slow
www.thetimes.com
September 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Great column from my @productivity.bsky.social colleague @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social in The Sunday Times this morning | Will AI solve the UK’s growth problem? Don’t be so sure
www.thetimes.com/article/752c...
www.thetimes.com/article/752c...
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Former minister Greg
Clark: #industrialstrategy needs an intellectual “hook” and that should be: improve #productivity. @productivity.bsky.social
Clark: #industrialstrategy needs an intellectual “hook” and that should be: improve #productivity. @productivity.bsky.social
Watching this live now. Great panel and insights/ views so far. Nice to see my @productivity.bsky.social colleagues @andywestwood.bsky.social & Kate Barker on the panel with @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social & Greg Clark
💻 How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity?
Join us online as we explore the relationship between growth and industrial strategy
With @gilesyb.bsky.social, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @productivity.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
Join us online as we explore the relationship between growth and industrial strategy
With @gilesyb.bsky.social, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @productivity.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
September 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Former minister Greg
Clark: #industrialstrategy needs an intellectual “hook” and that should be: improve #productivity. @productivity.bsky.social
Clark: #industrialstrategy needs an intellectual “hook” and that should be: improve #productivity. @productivity.bsky.social
Watching this live now. Great panel and insights/ views so far. Nice to see my @productivity.bsky.social colleagues @andywestwood.bsky.social & Kate Barker on the panel with @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social & Greg Clark
💻 How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity?
Join us online as we explore the relationship between growth and industrial strategy
With @gilesyb.bsky.social, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @productivity.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
Join us online as we explore the relationship between growth and industrial strategy
With @gilesyb.bsky.social, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @productivity.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
September 18, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Watching this live now. Great panel and insights/ views so far. Nice to see my @productivity.bsky.social colleagues @andywestwood.bsky.social & Kate Barker on the panel with @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social & Greg Clark
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RIP anyone who had a survey/experiment out tonight to measure debate effects but cannot now parse debate effects from Swift effects
September 11, 2024 at 3:08 AM
RIP anyone who had a survey/experiment out tonight to measure debate effects but cannot now parse debate effects from Swift effects
Interesting OpEd in The Times this morning. Business leader view on industrial strategy and how the regions have their part to play #UKproductivity | How to make ‘levelling up’ work for business
www.thetimes.com/article/46f6...
www.thetimes.com/article/46f6...
How to make ‘levelling up’ work for business
Governments have struggled to implement a successful regional economic strategy for decades, but it is crucial to Labour’s central growth mission
www.thetimes.com
September 9, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Interesting OpEd in The Times this morning. Business leader view on industrial strategy and how the regions have their part to play #UKproductivity | How to make ‘levelling up’ work for business
www.thetimes.com/article/46f6...
www.thetimes.com/article/46f6...
Another productivity focused piece from David Smith in The Sunday Times. Mentions a recent Nesta report that my Productivity Institute colleagues (Dame Kate Barker, Philip McCann) contributed to | Business needs sweeteners, or growth will stay stagnant
www.thetimes.com/article/afb7...
www.thetimes.com/article/afb7...
Business needs sweeteners, or growth will stay stagnant
Labour wants to make the UK the strongest-growing economy in the G7, but an appalling productivity record since the financial crisis shows the scale of the task
www.thetimes.com
September 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Another productivity focused piece from David Smith in The Sunday Times. Mentions a recent Nesta report that my Productivity Institute colleagues (Dame Kate Barker, Philip McCann) contributed to | Business needs sweeteners, or growth will stay stagnant
www.thetimes.com/article/afb7...
www.thetimes.com/article/afb7...
Took my daughter to see this play last night and can’t recommend enough. First time it has been performed outside the USA & the playwright who adapted it from Christie’s book (Tony award winning no less) also opened the show with a few words. Brilliant production www.murderontheorientexpressplay.com
Murder on the Orient Express on stage. UK Tour 2024-25
Brand-new stage production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Embarking on a UK Tour in 2024 and 2025.
www.murderontheorientexpressplay.com
September 7, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Took my daughter to see this play last night and can’t recommend enough. First time it has been performed outside the USA & the playwright who adapted it from Christie’s book (Tony award winning no less) also opened the show with a few words. Brilliant production www.murderontheorientexpressplay.com
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We have pulled together a BlueSky starter pack for UK Productivity. Please let us know who else you think should be included go.bsky.app/Hwvjf3i
September 6, 2024 at 1:17 PM
We have pulled together a BlueSky starter pack for UK Productivity. Please let us know who else you think should be included go.bsky.app/Hwvjf3i
Interesting piece on #industrialstrategy from David Wighton in The Times
@productivity.bsky.social & @instituteforgov.bsky.social are hosting an event on this topic on 18th Sept | Bosses’ biggest wish for Labour’s industrial strategy? To see it
www.thetimes.com/article/9acf...
@productivity.bsky.social & @instituteforgov.bsky.social are hosting an event on this topic on 18th Sept | Bosses’ biggest wish for Labour’s industrial strategy? To see it
www.thetimes.com/article/9acf...
Bosses’ biggest wish for Labour’s industrial strategy? To see it
Business has been reassured by promises of a partnership with the private sector, but there is frustration at the perceived lack of urgency
www.thetimes.com
September 5, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Interesting piece on #industrialstrategy from David Wighton in The Times
@productivity.bsky.social & @instituteforgov.bsky.social are hosting an event on this topic on 18th Sept | Bosses’ biggest wish for Labour’s industrial strategy? To see it
www.thetimes.com/article/9acf...
@productivity.bsky.social & @instituteforgov.bsky.social are hosting an event on this topic on 18th Sept | Bosses’ biggest wish for Labour’s industrial strategy? To see it
www.thetimes.com/article/9acf...
Same post. Different season. Let’s be having you #slowhorses season 4!
I’m now dedicating my weekend to bingeing on season 3 of Slow Horses
September 4, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Same post. Different season. Let’s be having you #slowhorses season 4!
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NEW EVENT: How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity?
🗓️ Wednesday 18 September, 17:30
@instituteforgov.bsky.social @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
🗓️ Wednesday 18 September, 17:30
@instituteforgov.bsky.social @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
September 3, 2024 at 4:33 PM
NEW EVENT: How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity?
🗓️ Wednesday 18 September, 17:30
@instituteforgov.bsky.social @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
🗓️ Wednesday 18 September, 17:30
@instituteforgov.bsky.social @gilesyb.bsky.social @gemmatetlow.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-go...
Watching the Preston to Hebden Bridge episode of #GreatBritishRailwayJourneys (my guilty pleasure). Superb North West edition & delighted to see one of my political heroines - Barbara Castle - featured. Awesome woman!
August 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Watching the Preston to Hebden Bridge episode of #GreatBritishRailwayJourneys (my guilty pleasure). Superb North West edition & delighted to see one of my political heroines - Barbara Castle - featured. Awesome woman!
Watching Mary Poppins with my 10 year old. “When was it made and when was it set?” she asks. 1910 and 1964 I say. Her- “Oh, so it’s like a film today being made about 1970 then”. Me - 😳😳
August 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Watching Mary Poppins with my 10 year old. “When was it made and when was it set?” she asks. 1910 and 1964 I say. Her- “Oh, so it’s like a film today being made about 1970 then”. Me - 😳😳
Productivity is the central theme of Larry Elliot’s column in The Observer today |
GDP growth is strong but it masks UK plc’s deep-seated structural problems | Larry Elliott
GDP growth is strong but it masks UK plc’s deep-seated structural problems | Larry Elliott
August 18, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Productivity is the central theme of Larry Elliot’s column in The Observer today |
GDP growth is strong but it masks UK plc’s deep-seated structural problems | Larry Elliott
GDP growth is strong but it masks UK plc’s deep-seated structural problems | Larry Elliott
Good piece from David Smith in the Sunday Times (@thetimes.com) this morning (which again mentions the importance of productivity in the growth narrative). | Growth’s back, but a ghoulish budget could be on the way
www.thetimes.com/article/475f...
www.thetimes.com/article/475f...
Growth’s back, but a ghoulish budget could be on the way
GDP is going in the right direction, inflation is under control, rates are falling. Puncturing the optimism are falling investment and weak productivity
www.thetimes.com
August 18, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Good piece from David Smith in the Sunday Times (@thetimes.com) this morning (which again mentions the importance of productivity in the growth narrative). | Growth’s back, but a ghoulish budget could be on the way
www.thetimes.com/article/475f...
www.thetimes.com/article/475f...
I can’t be the only one whose mind immediately wanders to this classic Mean Girls line every time ‘brat’ is mentioned…?
August 14, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I can’t be the only one whose mind immediately wanders to this classic Mean Girls line every time ‘brat’ is mentioned…?
Been a while since I was on here but in light of the issues with that other platform thought I should come back. Starting off by sharing a lovely photo of the Turkish Med that I took this time last week
August 6, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Been a while since I was on here but in light of the issues with that other platform thought I should come back. Starting off by sharing a lovely photo of the Turkish Med that I took this time last week