Apr
30
Over on the Media Standards Trust blog, I asked why the Advertising Standards Authority gets 463% more complaints than the Press Complaints Commission. I wanted to start a debate so I didn’t want to answer my own question. But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve convinced myself of the following: 1. The [...]
Apr
29
The Institute of Directors‘ Annual Convention is being held today and it will receive a significant amount of media coverage – quite rightly. Unfortunately, the convention is used as an opportunity for the IoD to whinge at the government. I’m open to suggestions that this isn’t the fault of the IoD but that it is [...]
Apr
27
David Cameron is a hypocrite
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I’m angry at David Cameron’s hypocrisy. This weekend, at a Conservative party conference, he attacked high earners in the public sector. Cameron singled out, by name, an apparently random list of the 34th highest earner, Ed Richards, the chief executive of Ofcom (£400,000 per annum) and the senior executives at British Waterways, Robin Evans (67th), [...]