Category Archives: Opinions

‘The Worlds Favourite Airline’… they used to say

I’m a big supporter of British companies, and was a big advocate of British Airways, until that man Walsh took control.

Tagged British Airways, business, Customer Service, Employee relations, Excess, First Class Service, Luxury, productivity, Value for money, Willie Walsh | 27 Comments

Lest We Forget

The demo that took place yesterday in Hyde Park involving the burning of poppies and shouts of ‘British soldiers burn in hell’ appalled and  disgusted me. On the day that the world is silent to remember the fallen these fanatics make a mockery of their memories by burning the very symbol of remembrance. Armistice day is [...]

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How will Private Business Benefit Under the Coalition

In the wake of last week’s Comprehensive Spending Review and the knowledge that 500,000 public sector jobs are going to go, I was keen to learn just how the government intended the  private sector absorb these redundancies. On Monday the PM gave a speech at the CBI Annual Conference, I had high hopes for what [...]

Tagged business, CBI, CSR, David Cameron, entrepreneurs, Government, Investment, Prime Minister | Leave a comment

Censoring Social

We recently launched a marketing campaign   involving social media engagement with the public. This campaign included a live twitter feed to our website, when some negative tweets appeared using our Hashtag, it was suggested that we moderate (censor) the live Twitter feed to our website, thereby only allowing the positive Tweets to be published. This [...]

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Safe as houses?

This week marked the first conviction of a Facebook related burglary. And with the sudden trends in GPS related social networking; Facebook Places, Gowalla, Foursquare to name just a few I continue to wonder how long it will be before our activity on social networking sites will affect insurance claims? Social Media is developing at [...]

Tagged Crime, Facebook, Foursquare, GPS, Social Media, Social Networking | Leave a comment

BigSkyBully

I just got back from an amazing week away with my kids, and having been in a news vacuum for the last 7 days I decided to catch up with the latest news. We get the papers delivered to the office daily, because I think it’s important that my staff and I keep on top [...]

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