Big is not necessarily beautiful. We know this thanks to the lavish expenses of sundry MPs and the ludicrous salaries of top BBC executives. But in the real world of serious money, it seems also to be true, as revealed in this story from Wealth Briefing: high net worth individuals are tired of what comes [...]
“The BBC will have to change its news timings to fit in with the new respect that we’re going to give Parliament.” “Why this obsession with the Today programme? Why should we be dancing to the tune of the BBC, of Radio 4’s news agenda?” Thus spoke Ben Bradshaw, the new culture secretary and a [...]
Think that the Telegraph may have been a little too zealous – or perhaps selective in the MPs it targetted – in its coverage of the cash-for-moats-and-mortgages scandal? Well, Will Lewis, the paper’s editor, defends its coverage here, while the full Radio 4 programme, presented by Nick Robinson and produced by Martin Rosenbaum, is also [...]
Blade values many Web 2.0 tools, but takes a cautious view of social media. He has signed up to Facebook, but perennially wonders whether to deactivate his account, and as for Twitter, he has yet to take the plunge. His hesitancy can only be confirmed by this tale from Legal Blog Watch of an American [...]
Everyone is paid too much. Everyone is having too much fun at work. People have forgotten that work is about austerity, boredom and greyness. It is time to return to the values that saw England ranked 27th by FIFA in February 1996. That is the conclusion we have reached here in the Swordplay labyrinth as [...]
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Excellent Nike ad
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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).