The news that Ryanair is in yet more trouble with the Advertising Standards Authority poses more than just a problem for the Office of Fair Trading. The OFT has been asked by the ASA to consider taking action against the low-cost airline under the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 (as amended). The ASA ran [...]
I was lucky enough to work with Tom Crone, legal manager of the News of the World, long enough to know just how pleased he’ll be with today’s High Court verdict in favour of the newspaper. M’learned friend will be sporting his characteristically modest, rather wry smile after the court refused to grant an injunction [...]
The High Court was yesterday rather more colourful than usual as George Lucas, the man who brought Star Wars to the world, launched a claim for copyright infringement against Andrew Ainsworth. As The Independent reports here, Ainsworth, who made the helmets and suits for the first, eponymous Star Wars film in 1977, has been selling [...]
According to this story in today’s Financial Times, law firms are under growing pressure from clients to promote more women and people from ethnic minorities. No less a figure than Simon Davies, managing partner of Linklaters, lent his voice to calls for law firms to stop lagging behind other sectors when it comes to diversity. [...]
Two bloggers recently died of heart attacks, as reported first in the New York Times and subsequently by various UK media. The NYT wrote of apocalyptic times in the blogosphere: “A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and [...]
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).