By Daniel Saunders on
May 11, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
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Elections dominated this week’s headlines with major votes taking place in France and the UK. Across the channel, the last days of campaigning in the French presidential election concluded with François Hollande emerging the victor with 51.63 per cent of the vote.
Closer to home, local elections across the the UK saw a swing of political momentum. The Labour party managed to scoop 823 new seats but missed out in the key race of the London mayorship. After a close first round vote, Boris Johnson secured another four-year term at City Hall, defeating his rival Ken Livingstone by a narrow margin of 62,538 votes. Read more …
By Daniel Saunders on
April 25, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Anders Breivik, French election, media round up, Simon Cowell, Theresa May |
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A row over calendars erupted as the legal team behind Abu Qatada launched a last-minute appeal to the European court of human rights over the decision to deport their client to Jordan.
The debate arose after home secretary, Theresa May, announced that the deadline to contest the decision had passed on Monday whilst Qatada’s lawyers argued that it had in fact expired on Tuesday.
As the week progressed, global attention switched to Bahrain and the controversial Formula One grand prix scheduled to take place in the island state. A number of commentators including Labour leader, Ed Miliband, voiced the view that the race should be cancelled in light of ongoing anti-government protests responsible for the cancellation of the 2011 race. Read more …
By Daniel Saunders on
April 20, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Burma, David Cameron, media round up, One Direction, Sudan, Syria, William Hague |
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David Cameron became the first western leader to visit Burma since Aung San Suu Kyi’s success in parliamentary by-elections in the country. The prime minister described the Burmese pro-democracy campaigner’s efforts as inspirational and used the opportunity to urge the international community to suspend sanctions against the country. Read more …
By Daniel Saunders on
April 11, 2012 |
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The race to become London’s next mayor stepped up a gear as tensions between the two leading candidates, Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone, grew. After a number of intense debates the conflict reached new heights after a heated confrontation in a lift where the incumbent was accused of launching a four-letter rant at his opponent.
Full-time controversy magnet and occasional footballer Mario Balotelli was behind the headlines for three completely different reasons. His week began with a tabloid confessional about his relationship with an escort, his second in as many weeks, which he followed up by crashing his £140,000 Bentley before rounding off by being sent off in his team’s match against Arsenal on Sunday. Read more …
By Daniel Saunders on
April 10, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, social media |
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$1,000,000,000
At first $1 billion sounds like a lot of money. But this week we learnt it is just enough to get you a company with only thirteen employees and whose sole product is available for free.
A quick calculation can tell you that this price means that each employee is worth $77 million each, a valuation above and beyond any other buyout in business history. This tells you that this must be no ordinary product and to pay such a price you can rightly assume that this is no ordinary buyer. Read more …
By Daniel Saunders on
April 4, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Acas, Bradford West, By election, Ed Miliband, Francis Maude, George Galloway, industrial action, Lady Gaga, media round up, panic buying, Peter Cruddas, petrol shortage |
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An invitation to hold talks to prevent industrial action by tanker drivers was enough to spark a frantic chain reaction.
Following the initial announcement by conciliation service Acas, government minster Francis Maude fuelled further concern about shortages advising the public to top up their cars and consider storing petrol in jerry cans at home.
Worries about a shortage became a self-fulfilling prophecy as thousands of motorists queued to bolster their personal supplies.
In Bradford both the media and the mainstream political parties were taken by surprise by George Galloway’s shock win a by-election in the west of the city. Read more …
By Daniel Saunders on
March 9, 2012 |
Category: Campaigns |
Tags: campaign, Dr Foster |
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By Daniel Saunders on
February 29, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Adele, Emma Harrison, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, Homs, hosepipe ban, media round up, Michael Gove, Sacha Baron Cohen, Syria, The Dictator, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday |
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The debate over unpaid jobs continued this week with a large number of businesses withdrawing from the Government’s ‘workfare’ scheme amid growing discontent from the general public.
Chair of A4e Emma Harrison stood down after her company, administrators of a number of Government employment and training programmes, became subject of a police investigation into suspected financial irregularities.
Elsewhere the conflict in Syria rumbled on and Rupert Murdoch’s the Sun launched its first Sunday edition which managed to sell over three million copies in its first run.
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By Daniel Saunders on
February 25, 2012 |
Category: Clients |
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We are working with Dr Foster to help develop awareness of their work, publicise their research and help them achieve their overall goal of turning data into insight.
By Daniel Saunders on
February 15, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Adele, Andrew Lansley, Fabio Capello, Football Association, Grammys, Harry Redknapp, media round up, Milan Mandarić, Syria |
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President Bashar al-Assad was under pressure as the death toll continued to rise in the city of Homs, subject of bombardment by Syrian national forces. Many commentators and activists have complained of widespread inaction following Russia and China’s veto of a UN resolution aimed at halting the conflict.
Thursday played host to a sporting double header beginning with the conclusion of the dramatic tax evasion trial of Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandarić at Southwark Crown Court. After a 13 day trial the two men were cleared by the 12 person jury of all the charges. Read more …
