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As a PRO for Lambeth Green Party in my spare time, I was intrigued to read your analysis 'Where on earth is the Green Party?' (PRWeek, 14 April).
With the upsurge in the use of freelancers ('How freelancers stole a March,' 7 April) and companies turning to them for both short and longer-term contracts, firms need to protect themselves from potential trouble with the taxman.
Your article 'Agency 2020' (Analysis, 21 April) was an interesting look into the future of the PR industry. It showed that we must learn lessons from the advertising world to ensure we are paid fairly for every service we provide to our clients, including our bright ideas.
Does she think that the public are completely stupid? I refer of course to the insult to the intelligence delivered by Patricia Hewitt when she claimed the NHS has just enjoyed its best-ever year.
Like most sane people I change channels the moment a party political broadcast comes on. But I would have to be a trappist monk not to have known about Labour’s ‘Chameleon Cameron’ broadcast last week.
Few would argue against public consent being an essential component of effective legislation.
The biggest risk faced by most financial firms dealing with the general public comes when their reputation gets tarnished.
Sometimes you need another crisis to lay the ghost of the last one. That’s not to say Defra will have welcomed the arrival of bird flu to these shores, but via a campaign of calm reassurance and confident commentary, the department appears finally to have seen off the legacy of foot and mouth.
When a judge let rip into Deloitte last week for its misfeasance action against the Bank of England – over the collapse 15 years ago of banking group BCCI – I thought The Maitland Consultancy was unlucky to catch some of the flak.
‘Do you really haggle with party donors about the price of knighthoods and peerages?’ I asked a prominent Labour fundraiser during the recent excitement. ‘If anyone did that with me Michael, I’d give them a two-word answer: “Piss” and “Off”,’ was his indignant and well-practised reply.
