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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘The Telegraph’

Welcome Joe!

By Denis Campbell • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Reflections
Many will deride your selection as ‘old politics as usual’ but from this chair you bring more straight talk than McCain now seems capable of doing as well as balance, compassion, every day common sense and gravitas to the ticket. You also can be a pit bull when needed capable of gnawing a leg or [...]



Follow All Rules Please, We’re British

By Denis Campbell • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics Too
Driving merrily along the M8 in Scotland. I swerve around a large piece of wooden debris at 70 mph straddling the right and middle lanes. Checking the rearview mirror I see others doing the same. Thinking quickly, I toss the mobile phone to my wife and tell her to dials 999 (the UK’s 911)
Her end [...]



The Brown Mutiny, Chapter One

By Denis Campbell • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Features
It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]



New B&B Given the Royal Treatment

By Denis Campbell • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Business
Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the monarchy and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall spent the night recently in a sumptuous Western Wales Bed and Breakfast Inn situated on an old estate in the village of Myddfai, near Llandovery (you’re on your own for pronunciation, this language desperately needs vowels). That would normally be [...]



You Right Very Well . . .

By Denis Campbell • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Business
. . . began the comment from a graduate of Oxford University. I gave him the chance to correct his post. Today’s feed from The Telegraph though held little surprise… “more than half of 200 respondents to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters expressed concern about the lack of graduate’s writing skills, while [...]



Still Waiting to Hear from Ben

By Denis Campbell • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Business
About two months ago I wrote an article for the Welsh national newspaper asking CEO Ben Verwaayen about the horrifically bad service BT provides. Now it seems they and the industry are in a spot of trouble for the 0870 number scheme where you pay between .10 and .50 pence per minute for YOU to call [...]



Sir Martin’s Midas Touch Dulling or Media Laziness?

By Denis Campbell • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Business
Which is the real headline?
TNS rejected WPP’s £1 billion pound buyout offer. What’s astounding is if one Googles TNS and WPP, there are 11-story links from: Reuters, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, MSN, E-Financial news, Yahoo! and Tiscali on the first search page.
All of them say the exact same thing regurgitating from the exact [...]