Tag Archives: David Cameron

The voters make fools of us all from time to time (including we hacks) and it looks as though 2015’s General Election has been one such instance. Most of the polls have been proved wrong (except a so-called ‘rogue’ one ...

I suppose we’d better write something about this: The governing Tories have kicked off their British General Election campaign (polling day is May 5) with a crappy poster showing the road ahead with them. Trouble is it’s supposed to be ...

What to make of the verdicts in the great phone hacking trial? Former News of the World editor, Downing Street head of communications and lover of Rebekah Brooks Andy Coulson (left) has been found guilty of conspiring to hack phones ...

***It’s been an interesting old week, for me in the dawning realisation that the bigger companies get (and the more they spend on CRM and all that stuff) the worse they become. We’ve had two members of the energy cartel ...

Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved cross-party consensus on regulating the press. Everyone, it seems, is a winner. Dave has gambled – with losing a vote ...

A rich mixture then. ***RKCR/Y&R (please call it Y&R, RKC and R have cleared off) has produced this nice film to celebrate the BBC’s 90th birthday, featuring some of its greatest hits. Oddly, there’s no Jimmy Savile. But I can’t ...

If it weren’t for the fact David Cameron (left) watches so little television, I would be forced to conclude he has been modelling his recent behaviour on Borg, the Viking Himbo now fronting Tesco’s advertising. How else to explain his ...

Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, is in Davos along with lots of other movers and shakers (he likes the place, he met the current Lady Sorrell there) and, he, like lots of other UK business leaders is aghast at ...

Sirs Martin Sorrell and Richard Branson and sundry other business luminaries have written to the Financial Times blasting tbe UK PM’s plans to hold a referendum on Britain’s EU membership. This is scheduled after the next General Election, which David ...