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Where are we as we go into the (pre-Christmas) weekend? PG/IPG, Sorrell, Wieden and Murdoch

Where are we as we go into the (pre-Christmas) weekend? PG/IPG, Sorrell, Wieden and Murdoch

By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012

It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]

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Who's the winner - attack dog Tory MP Philip Davies or defiant BBC boss Lord Patten?

Who’s the winner – attack dog Tory MP Philip Davies or defiant BBC boss Lord Patten?

By Stephen Foster on November 28, 2012

This is worth a look for those with a penchant for blood sports. It’s BBC chairman Lord Patten, of ‘incurious’ George Entwistle fame, being grilled by Tory MP Philip Davies over his less than outstanding first few months at the BBC. The famously urbane Patten looks like he’d like to thump the ‘impertinent’ Davies. Opinion [...]

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Are two Lords better than one? Lord (Tony) Hall quits the opera to join Lord Patten at the Beeb

Are two Lords better than one? Lord (Tony) Hall quits the opera to join Lord Patten at the Beeb

By Stephen Foster on November 22, 2012

Admittedly Lord Hall – one-time BBC head of news Tony Hall – isn’t quite as grand as former Tory minister and last governor of Hong Kong Lord (Chris) Patten but it’s a sign that egalitarianism in the UK never quite made it across the line that both the chairman and the new director general of [...]

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