It appears to be that time of year again. The non-existent summer has come to an end, and now we are all looking forward to the long, wet, dark, and bitterly cold months ahead. Call me a cynic, but I think that the British secretly look forward to September because it means that the game [...]
One of the more entertaining news stories of the Summer has been the cost-cutting actions taken by FC Barcelona. The Spanish and European champions, and one of the biggest clubs in world football announced over the summer that they were going to have to tighten their purse strings. The club are £400 million in the [...]
Now it is the turn of the Ministry of Defence to come under fire for its approach towards cost cutting in the recession. It was reported in The Times on August 18th that: “Private consultants are being paid £4,000 a day by the Ministry of Defence to help it to cut the costs of its [...]
As Britain begins its recovery from the recent riots, I have to wonder whether a lot more couldn’t have been done to prevent them. Sparked by a controversial encounter with the police, which escalated, a percentage of Britain’s youth revolted, leading to widespread looting across the nation’s capitals. While much of the talk in the [...]
Auditel National Conference last Friday. An excellent day, one that our network looks forward to through the year. Some inspiring external speakers, perhaps, most significantly Colonel Stuart Tootall, DSO OBE, former C.O. 3 Para in Afghanistan who spoke eloquently on leadership in the military and in business and drew some engaging parallels between the two [...]