7 march 2012, any which wei

With excuses for a rare lapse into the day job, but we were everywhere yesterday. Amongst other things I was having afternoon tea in the house of lords with lord nat wei, but meanwhile our economic advisory panel were putting the finishing touches to a greater manchester "growth plan", that the chair, jim o'neill (14 january 2010), was talking about on bbc radio 4's "pm" programme (21:30). It's being launched next week with a good quorum of ministers in attendance led by danny alexander. Meanwhile, over in the south of france, our high-powered delegation were wooing global developers and investors at the legendary "mipim" propertyfest, well covered in the press, especially the "appliance of science" material based on graphene, already well covered, including in the times. Our monthly economic dashboard was also widely covered locally. We published an excellent study, and best of all that helped manchester get blanket coverage in the financial times, no mean feat. Got home late but feeling very upbeat about these things.