This year, we depart from the usual. The Big Guns issue is always ‘pounced upon’ as it’s published. Which centres took the honours in terms of MAT, MAT/m2 and Specialty MAT/m2, is always of paramount interest to our readers. The feature invariably provides the lead story in the business/property sections...

What a difference! A Big Guns issue without any rankings. Just over one year ago, that was, quite simply, inconceivable. This year, SCN made a decision not to publish any MAT...