Tara Hamilton-Miller: British lack zest for a good demo
04 Nov 2010 | by Tara Hamilton-Miller
While flicking through a magazine this morning, I came across a photograph.
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Liam Fox could always be relied on to go the extra mile for the team.
While flicking through a magazine this morning, I came across a photograph.
The Comprehensive Spending Review will impact on every single comms professional in the public sector, and way beyond.
Was it a victory for Defence Secretary Liam Fox or a score draw?
For some months now, union leaders have been plotting the mother of all PR campaigns against the Government's spending cuts.
The pain has not yet hit, but already the public is questioning the coalition on cuts.
No-one these days has a good word to say about public sector pensions.
Someone told me a factoid just before the holidays. If every dollar in the $1.1 trillion G20 stimulus package was a second, it would add up to 35,000 years. I did try to check the figure and ran out of zeros on my calculator.
Top salaries in the public service will remain in focus next week as the Budget sets out the state of the national finances. The need to demonstrate value for money is high on the agenda of all parties and PR may be an easy target.
First it was private equity that aroused the wrath of politicians and then it was hedge funds that found themselves friendless, blamed and the target of regulation. Now it looks as though the mainstream asset management industry is about to pay the price for taking success for granted and not spending...