Tag: Communication
DC taking a leaf out of DC?
The morning after the Newsnight before, everyone is asking why did he do it? And how will it work? Find the answer the second question and I think you have the answer to the first. Read more »
Posted: March 24th, 2015 under Topics: Communication, Politics
Victim statements: are they having the wrong impact?
In an episode of The West Wing from 2002, the (fictional) US President. Jed Bartlet, prepares for a presidential debate by considering how he should answer a question designed to challenge his opposition to capital punishment: “If your youngest daughter, Zoe, was raped and murdered, would you not want to see the man responsible put to death?” Read more »
Posted: August 5th, 2014 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Law, Politics
Testing times for the Director of Public Prosecutions
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Alison Saunders, says that juries apply a “much higher test” than prosecutors do when deciding whether to pursue a case. If that is true, it seems bizarre. More likely, it betrays a lack of logic on the part of the DPP. Read more »
Posted: April 14th, 2014 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Law
Journalists in a tiz at Supreme Court’s win-win decision
I’m not sure quite how to say this. So I’ll say it twice: Read more »
Posted: October 31st, 2013 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Justice, Law, Politics, Regulation
When did you stop ****ing your wife?
I don’t know how to put this politely, so I’ll follow The Times and use a lot of asterisks.
My attention has been caught by a recent news item (£) in which a vicar was taken to task for describing the Archbishop of Canterbury as a w****r. Read more »
Posted: June 10th, 2013 under Topics: Communication
Harry’s Bottom and the Right to Privacy
Today’s big argument is said to be about privacy and the public interest. I think there must be more to it that that. Most commentators seem to be going round in circles. Read more »
Posted: August 24th, 2012 under Topics: Communication, Human Rights, Law, Press, Regulation
Redknapp admits his guilt?
We all know that Harry Redknapp is innocent of tax evasion. A jury has decided that unanimously.
But readers of The Times newspaper may have been a little surprised by the verdict. Redknapp had, after all, admitted criminality. Or so the paper reported Read more »
Posted: February 15th, 2012 under Topics: Communication, Football, Law, QPR, Sport
A rule that Mae be broken
I have certain rules. One of them is that, when a friend asks you to watch their daughter do a stand-up comedy routine at an upstairs theatre in an Islington pub, you say “No, thank you”. So when an email came in from a friend I hadn’t seen for over 20 years – and not likely to bump into any time soon, because he lives more than 3,000 miles away – it should have been a no-brainer. Except … Read more »
Posted: February 5th, 2012 under Topics: Communication, Happened to me
Hasty Copper and the Paper with Secrets
I keep reading expressions of anger that the Metropolitan Police sought a court order under the Official Secrets Act to uncover the Guardian’s source behind the phone hacking story (here, here, here, here, and here, to name but a few). I’m not convinced. Read more »
Posted: September 22nd, 2011 under Topics: Communication, Justice, Law, Press
It’s very disconcerting …
… to be giving a presentation whilst the audience is tweeting their comments onto a screen behind your head. Read more »
Posted: November 25th, 2010 under Topics: Communication, Economics, Fair Value, Finance, Happened to me, Pensions, Regulation