Here at Swordplay we were struck by Susie Boyt’s affirmation of the new non-cynical zeitgeist in the weekend Financial Times. “Six times recently at parties, I’ve seen grown men breaking into song, unprompted by me, and in an absolutely unprecedented way,” purred Ms Boyt, as a log fire crackled and everyone ate devils on horseback. [...]
Not known for his sense of romance, Blade missed the launch of Law and More on 14 February this year. In fact, Blade has missed Law and More ever since, too.
But experience tells him that whether in journalism or romance, it is better late than never. So without further ado, Blade urges you to check [...]
The Law Society Gazette reports today on plans for expansion of Which?’s legal services arm, saying that it will “aggressively target customers through pricing and brand awareness as it drives to increase its membership by a quarter over the next year.”
Steve Coyle, Which’s? head of legal services, said that the group has no plans to [...]
The news that the wife of the Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone is leaving her husband after 24 years of marriage has understandably dominated the media since Slavica Ecclestone filed for divorce yesterday.
Much of the commentary focuses on the oft-published view that the family wealth is believed to be held by Mrs Ecclestone in a [...]
Spada’s White Paper on trends in Environmental Reporting shows that FTSE 100 companies have largely jettisoned the term “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) in favour of simply “corporate responsibility” (CR). It is hypothesized that the change has occurred because “the term ’social’ has connotations of the ’soft’, ‘touchy-feely’, old-style practices of random philanthropy”, so too that [...]
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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.
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
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