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By Stephen Foster on September 25, 2012
I believe it was Virgin Records who used to make a fortune out of those useless compilation records ‘the best pile of old tat in the UK – ever’ or some such. And Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg (also deputy prime minister of the coalition government) has a lot in common on first sight with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged david laws, Jeremy Thorpe, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, pensioners, richard branson, Vince Cable, virgin
By Stephen Foster on September 20, 2012
Before the last UK general election the Liberal Democrats signed a ‘pledge’ not to increase student tuition fees. And then promptly agreed to them being tripled followed a Labour-instigated review by the ludicrous Lord Browne, former head of BP who was nixed after lying about his homosexual lover. Now Clegg has chosen a rare party [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged coalition government, David Cameron, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, pr disaster, the poke, tuition fees, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on September 10, 2012
The extraordinary London Olympics and Paralympics have finally drawn to a close and, if anything, the Paralympics have outdone their big brother. Never more so than in last night’s closing ceremony that featured, among others, Rihanna (giving her insurers heart failure as she zoomed about the arena in a swing) and Coldplay. Coldplay, who can [...]
Posted in Creative, Media, Politics, PR | Tagged coldplay, creative industries, diabled athletes, google, London, olympics, paralympics, Rihanna, silicon roundabout, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012
OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adam & eve, amv/bbdo, blatherskite, bskyb, David Cameron, ddb london, facebook, google analytics, google news, ipo, Jeremy Hunt, John Lewis, leveson inquiry, media ethics, moreaboutadvertising, multiples, news corporation, omnicom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, stock price, Vince Cable, wall street, west country farmed rabbit, £60m deal
By Stephen Foster on May 18, 2012
For a couple of years at least the UK media markets have been defying gravity, showing reasonable growth (in the circumstances) despite a wider economy that’s stagnant at best. Over the weekend UK PM David Cameron (pictured) will be hobnobbing with the G8 group of industrial nations at Barack Obama’s Camp David weekend place. He [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, bully pulpits, camp david, coalition government, daily mail, David Cameron, deficit reduction, france, Francois Hollande, ft, g8, George Osborne, Greece, leveson inquiry, liberal democrats, Martin Wolf, news corporation, Nick Clegg, Sir Martin Sorrell, slash and burn, Sly Bailey, spain, stagnation, Sun, trinity mirror, uk economy, Vince Cable, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2012
Former News International boss James Murdoch was up before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today and, while James escaped pretty well unscathed (in part due to his professed reluctance to read evening emails revealing phone hacking on a grand scale at the News of the World) he’s left the coalition government reeling. Culture, media [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, coalition government, David Cameron, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, media ethics, news corporation, News International, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, thwarted bid, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on January 30, 2012
Well maybe not Labour leader Ed Miliband although it’s surprising that no-one has reminded him yet that RBS boss Stephen Hester’s generous deal at the nearly-nationalised bank was struck by former Labour PM Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling. And that it was Labour that decided that some public sector ‘workers’, like GPs and hospital [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alistair Darling, bankers, bonus, coalition government, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, hunting pinks, Labour, pr disaster, RBS, Stephen Hester, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on December 12, 2011
One minute UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is supporting (reluctantly-ish) his boss PM David Cameron in the latter’s decision to wield his veto to keep Britain out of something or other at the EU (nobody seems sure exactly what), tbe next minute he’s telling his mates in the media like the Observer’s Will Hutton [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andrew Marr, Angela Merkel, Chris Huhne, David Cameron, eu treaties, eurozone, great communicator, Nick Clegg, nicolas sarkozy, uk coalition government, uk financial sector, Vince Cable, Will Hutton
By Staff on December 7, 2011
Well this is all a bit peculiar and no mistake. The Daily Telegraph alleges that Lord Bell’s PR and lobbying company Bell Pottinger advised its client Rebekah Brooks (pictured), former editor of the News of the World, Sun and then CEO of News International, about which particular police station she should turn up to be [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged arrests, Bell Pottinger, business secretary, chime communications, Daily Telegraph, David Wilson, independent sting, Lord Bell, News International, news of the world, political lobbying, Rebekah Brooks, Tim Bell, Tim Collins, Vince Cable
By Stuart Smith on October 29, 2011
An open letter to Everything Everywhere CEO Olaf Swantee (pictured): ‘Dear Mr Swantee How do these female Telegraph journalists do it? Trap you into saying things you didn’t really mean to say, that is? Not many months ago, coalition government business secretary Vince Cable was silly enough to tell two such hackettes that Mr Murdoch’s [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged bskyb, deutsche telekom, everything everywhere, france telecom, Katherine Rushton, Olaf Swantee, orange, Rupert Murdoch, Stuart Smith, t-mobile, Telegraph, Tom Alexander, Vince Cable
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