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Come back GNER, all is forgiven

A short while ago Simon Collister asked me on Twitter what I thought of booking tickets with National Express East Coast, compared to its predecessor GNER. The title of the post, should give you a clue. I can’t recall the…

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Small Business and Government: The Richard Report

This morning I caught the tail end of an interview with Doug Richard (the serial entrepreneur of Dragon’s Den fame). He was talking about how government support for small business was woefully inadequate, if not downright damaging. I found myself…

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Time for Labour loyalists to speak out

This is both a professional blog where I talk about business and public relations, but also a political blog (more so since I stopped writing on my old councillor blog). For sometime I’ve been quietly fuming, with the occasional Twitter…

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Microsoft’s dumb switch to Multimap

A long, long time ago there was a British internet mapping firm that was really innovative and I used all the time. That firm was Multimap. And then along came Google Maps and then Microsoft Live Maps and I forgot…

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What I Wish My New Employee Knew

Todd Defren has a great post on “What I wish my new employee knew”. I’d agree with almost every word of it. The only that doesn’t really resonate with me is “I wish my new employee knew that we were…

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Some really interesting business blog links

I’m not a fan of link posts, but for once I’m going to indulge in it myself: OpenSkies is a new airline from British Airways and it has launched not with a traditional website, but with flyopenskies a business blog…

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My week in media meme

The folks at Seventy Seven have started a My Week in Media meme and I’ve been tagged, so here goes… What I’ve read My newspaper habits are fairly regular and The Guardian, Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post are essential…

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A very stupid company

You would think from this sign that I could go in and change my daughter’s nappy. You’d be wrong, because the company that runs the Junction 32 outlet is obviously run by a bunch of Neandarthal throw backs. The only…

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Le Web 3: Jemima Kiss 30, Loic Le Meur nil poins

I haven’t blogged much about Le Web 3, mainly because lots of other people already have and I also twittered it extensively. However, I felt compelled to respond to The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss and her post on “Beautiful women at…

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Le Web 3

After a really easy Metro ride from my hotel I’m finally at Les Blogs 3 at Les Docks on the outskirts of Paris. First up is an introduction by Loic Le Meur, then it’s straight into a panel on Web…

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