Sorted by Month: June 2010

The surprise announcement of a new Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, should be seen as significant for the business as well as the political world. The Australian Labor Party, seeing approval ratings plummet for previous PM Kevin Rudd, took swift …Read Post »

Isn’t it about time sports organisations and teams got a better grip on their communications? Over the past 48 hours we have seen the England football team implode publically as former captain John Terry addressed the world’s media at the …Read Post »

Talking to almost any journalist over the last few weeks over a drink or lunch and they are pretty unanimous in their hope The Times will be successful with their recently installed pay wall. Journalists realise that with so much …Read Post »

The general election campaign kicked off with a poster where David Cameron promised to ‘cut the deficit, not the NHS’. This directly followed his earlier pledge to protect NHS budgets against cuts, which would be inevitable in other Government departments. …Read Post »

The Government has announced plans to open up Government data to the public, publishing information on topics including crime, hospital infections and Government spending. It is clear that this new transparency will lead to greater scrutiny and we have already …Read Post »