The FT is running a great series of pieces this week on New Britain todays illuminating - if somewhat depressing - report by Chris Giles suggests that the rewards of globalisation are not evenly spread (which is, I guess, hardly a surprise). Contrasting economic growth rates in two valleys the Tees and the Thames he consludes that the lessons of the last nine years is that '21st century globalisation favours the well connected and the well- heeled over the distant and the deprived'

And get this; Slough boasts more European HQs than Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales combined! Check out the interactive map of Britain on the site