At the first evening meeting of the year Capital Economics’ Samuel Tombs went head to head with Fathom’s Danny Gabay to debate the outlook for the UK economy over the coming year, chaired by Kevin Daly from Goldman Sachs.

George Magnus spoke on the topic of "Making sense of China" to a full house at November's evening meeting following the AGM. His overarching view was that China had reached "the end of extrapolation" - that the period of benign globalisation had been brought to an end via the catalyst of the global financial crisis.

With divergences in the UK's regional property markets having widened sharply during the post-recession recovery, the timing could not be more perfect for Professor Henry G Overman's talk to The Society on the issue of "The Future of British Cities and the Role of Urban Policy".