Returning from maternity leave is, for most professionals, framed primarily as a process of catching up: re-engaging with clients, re-establishing presence, closing the gap that absence creates. That framing is understandable, and the practical reality of re-entry is real. But it captures only part of the picture. This piece reflects on a different dimension of the return: the capabilities that the experience of parenthood can sharpen, and what those capabilities mean in a

The CAA is about to acquire powers it has never had. Businesses in regulated sectors need to understand what changes when a regulator stops asking courts for help and starts acting itself. For most of its existence, the Civil Aviation Authority has been a regulator that could advise, cajole, refer and complain - but not directly punish. When airlines fell short of their obligations to passengers, the CAA's route to enforcement ran through the courts. It was slow, uncertain, a

Insights The EU Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) is a Commission proposal published in March 2026, establishing a framework to accelerate industrial capacity and decarbonisation in strategic sectors. Its headline ambition is to restore manufacturing's share of EU GDP to 20% by 2035. The Act integrates industrial policy, climate ambition and economic-security tools into a single regulatory package - the most comprehensive intervention in EU industrial policy since the Single