The property crash: from one day to the next, the diagnosis varies and the prognosis is revised. The patient – the dear old property market – must be feeling all at sea. Here, then, courtesy of The Independent, is the latest all-singing revisionist take (by the National Association of Estate Agents) on the now apparently [...]
There’s a nice piece by ‘serial entrepreneur’ Mike Southon in the FT on a subject dear to its author’s heart: the characteristics that create an entrepreneur. Southon avers that “Born entrepreneurs are easy to spot. They are restless, animated and always searching out the next opportunity. They infuriate their employers with their lack of focus [...]
Recently Blade posted on a Law Society survey on diversity, the results of which made for dismaying reading. Readers may recall that the survey revealed significant disparities between pay for white male solicitors and women and/or members of ethnic minorities. A regrettable irony is to be found in Clare Dyer’s story in today’s Guardian. It [...]
Our Transatlantic cousins tend to be quicker off the mark than us. Full marks for typically American creative zeal in the creation of so-called ‘love contracts.’ As this piece reports, the agreements are for use in relationships at work. If you, as an employer, discern that amorous relations are developing among your employees, you might [...]
Blade has fond memories of both The Independent and its sister paper, The Independent on Sunday, having toiled within their shiny and modern Marsh Wall walls in a former life. He is concerned, therefore, at two reports in The Guardian, one on Irish businessman Denis O’Brien’s plans to take over the Indy and Sindy 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).