Here is French model Laetitia Casta born aloft by two members of the French Foreign Legion, a force renowned for its austerity, toughness and general delight in making its soldiers’ lives as miserable as possible.
Or is it?
Who’d have thought it? Sometimes, when you pick up the phone only to encounter an eerie silence, it’s not a human pest acting with malicious intent but a machine operated by Barclaycard. We learn this thanks to this story in the Guardian, explaining that Ofcom has fined Barclaycard £50,000 for repeatedly subjecting customers to so-called [...]
A law graduate of Edinburgh University who went on to become a freelance financial writer is the latest recruit to Strathclyde University’s new masters’ course in journalism. Francis Shennan is joining as a lecturer in media law and will host a series of coures called ‘Real Law for Journalists.’
The art of pre-publication advice is a [...]
Here at Swordplay we have the utmost admiration for Professor Roy Greenslade, former Fleet Street editor and sage commentator on all things media for the Guardian. But we are rather surprised to see the fuss being made of this story by the Professor in the Guardian. As he writes:
A News of the World “exclusive” last [...]
ID cards: a force for good, or an incursion into civil liberties? Sadly, from this story in today’s Times it looks as if we’ll soon be finding out at the sharp end rather than debating the theoretical aspects of an initiative which, it is alleged, will eventually cost each of us £100.
Perhaps the government could [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
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In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.