Sorted by Month: May 2010

It seems that the players have been encouraged to pose and answer their own questions during interviews rather than answer those posed to them. Jamie Carragher, for example, is characteristically tough and demanding as he asks himself “was I pleased …Read Post »

Today I gave a presentation on social media to the fantastic people at the UK’s preeminent healthcare think tank, the King’s Fund. I gave a wide ranging presentation that discussed current trends in social media, case studies of our work …Read Post »

The coalition Government announced 24 Bills in its first Queen’s Speech – which had ‘freedom, fairness and responsibility’ as its central message. It was a high number, but this Parliament is due to run for 18 months and will also …Read Post »

So, with its launch of the new look website today, The Times has taken the first bold step towards what will become the first UK newspaper to move toward a paywall model of delivering its product (The FT has always …Read Post »

The Speaker has written to the party leaders to communicate the proportion of Chairs of Select Committees to be elected to the party leaders. Reflecting the fact that the Conservative Party does not have a majority (with only 306 seats), …Read Post »

Yesterday morning I attended a city networking event where the star speakers were David Blunkett, Michael Portillo and Paddy Ashdown. While the three sparred with each other and BBC news man Huw Edwards my mind wandered to thinking about how …Read Post »

Today the Government published “The Coalition: our programme for government”, a comprehensive document covering all aspects of government which follows on the shorter document agreed last week. The section of health contains a number of commitments which have been previously …Read Post »

Picture this: The countdown begun to what promised to be a memorable press trip for an amazing line up of journalists including The Mirror, The Metro, The Independent and MSN, accompanied by me. We were jetting off to Trinidad & …Read Post »

Cabinet Members (5 due to be Liberal Democrat, according to reports) Prime Minister – David Cameron MP Deputy Prime Minister – Nick Clegg MP Foreign Secretary – William Hague MP Chancellor of the Exchequer – George Osborne MP

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In the last few minutes, Gordon Brown MP announced that he was going to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen to accept his resignation as Prime Minister. To applause from the Downing Street and Labour staff, he joined his wife …Read Post »