Hot on the heels of her appearance on stage at the Labour Party conference, Sarah Brown is being lauded as the potential saviour of her husband, a certain Gordon Brown, a man whose prospects of remaining in government following the next general election have long since been written off. But can Mrs Brown save the [...]
Blade was struck by this story from the FT, reporting on the uncertain political fate of Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion who retired from chess in 2005 to become the face of opposition to Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin.
As a chess player of some ineptitude, Blade has the utmost admiration for Mr Kasparov. Confronted with [...]
It is with regret that we pay tribute to Bill Bateson, the former sports editor of the News of the World, who died last week at his home in Truro, Cornwall. He was 73.
Bateson was a legend on Fleet Street and in sports journalism. He worked at the NoW for 34 years, seeing it move [...]
Renowned pedant, Richard Dixon of The Times, is in the Royal Parks Half-Marathon on October 11. He is thus soliciting sponsorship for the oft-unheralded but rather wonderful Article 25 charity, which sends architects and related specialists abroad where there is a need for decent buildings.
Mr Dixon avows that he is planning to walk the [...]
Here’s an event we’d like to attend. The Advertising, Brands and Communications Cup is taking place today and tomorrow on the Solent, with crews getting that wild and blustery feeling as they compete on 40ft Beneteau yachts. The ABC Cup is in aid of Helen & Douglas House, the UK’s first children’s hospice, and its [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
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.
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.