Father Ted fans, rejoice: the Advertising Standards Authority has decided that the word “feck” is not offensive. The matter came before the ASA’s scrutiny when it had to consider a complaint about a Magners cider advert. The advert showed an orchard keeper saying “Feck off bees” as they buzzed his bald spot. As the Daily [...]
As the announcement that Telegraph News and Media (TMG) has become a web-first operation filters slowly through media London, it’s worth pausing to consider the value of all those unique visitors and oodles of page views. What, in financial terms, are they worth, in an industry which is seeing staff laid off every week, the [...]
Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch email arrives with the news that our transatlantic legal brethren saw fit to increase their hourly rates in 2008. Some might say this is rather silly, perhaps even inappropriate, given the worldwide recession, but others could just as easily argue that never have lawyers been more valuable. (Who would say that? [...]
How curious. As Stephen Harris at Wealth Briefing confirms, there will be no bonuses this year for the top men at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Moreover, Goldman Sachs’s top seven executives are also going to forgo their bonuses. But compared with the financial sector, the property market is buoyant. Well, it must be, mustn’t [...]
Blade is intrigued by the storm surrounding Field Fisher Waterhouse partner Mark Abell following his ordeal in Mumbai. Abell had to barricade himself in his room in Mumbai’s Trident Oberoi Hotel after being caught up in the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago. As carnage raged around him he endured nigh on 40 hours with [...]
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