Christmas is all but here, but its eve brings a problem. We speak not of the endless doom and gloom in all newspapers (for this is the season to be jolly, and we’re jolly well going to be jolly, thank you), but of the dread realisation that one has not sent all the cards that [...]
There’s an interesting piece in the Independent today hypothesizing that this Thursday might just be “the last Christmas Day on which everyone in Britain watches the same programmes at the same time.” The reason is not, sadly, because next year the country is set to awaken from its decades-long mass hyponosis to realize just how [...]
Across the pond the music industry is poised to abandon its policy of suing everyone without limitation (several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl, to name but a few) for the alleged illegal downloading of music. We learn this thanks to a report in the Wall Street Journal – and we hope [...]
With the news that BBC reporter and economist Robert Peston has been listed as an Observer “face of the year”, is he officially ubiquitous?
Sometimes, it seems so. Blade was returning from London on the weekend and turned on the radio to listen to Five Live’s Fighting Talk. Within seconds he heard mention of Peston (though [...]
We continue our occasional series on how to beat the credit crunch with a heart-warming story from a supposedly heartless environment. Yes, journalism. Four journalists at Newsquest titles in Wales have offered to take a pay cut to prevent a colleague’s redundancy.
Perhaps our friends in the City could have suggested likewise before using to fire [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
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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.