One of the oddest bits of riot damage is this week's reversal of roles between the supposedly dripping wet Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, and the Work and Pensions Secretary, back-to-basics Right-winger Iain Duncan Smith... more
Does TV boss Dawn Airey, who works for Luxembourg-German outfit RTL, need to vary her routine a bit? "I have lunch at The Ivy between three and five times a week. I always order salad followed by fish - the waiters don't even have to ask"... more
Champers all round for the City scribes who did something to restore their battered reputation by hitting the bull's-eye on first-quarter growth yesterday, as the official number-crunchers' 0.5% came bang in line with consensus forecasts... more
The revolving door that is the senior management of EMI gets a further spin as executive chairman Charles Allen and Lord Birt, the chairman of its parent company, step down... more
BGC Partners analyst Howard Wheeldon came up with a new philosophy when speaking of the economists who are divided over when the Government should start cutting the deficit...... more
With a new series of Dragons’ Den returning to our screens in the summer, executive producer Sam Lewens has an "interesting" time with the BBC show's big hitters... more
Ah the joy and pain of email. Dominic Morris, former bag-carrier to ex-broadcasting minister Lord Carter, has sent exciting emails out to announce he has become the new director of public policy at Lloyds Banking Group... more
Banking giant Citigroup has rejected attempts by Terra Firma, Guy Hands’s private equity firm, to restructure EMI, the music business it bought for £2.5 billion in 2007 ... more
Despite attacks from media rivals and politicians of both parties, Lord Reith's ever-burgeoning institution seems to survive - and even strengthen... more
A BBC reporter, asked for his assessment of the quality of the management of the corporation, answers the question with an anecdote. He recalls how he was walking through Television Centre a few days ago and observed Jana Bennett... more
No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival.... more
It's nice to know you're getting value for money when splashing out on a big purchase, so it's interesting to see what Lloyds TSB Insurance buys when it goes shopping... more
A series of peers claimed hundreds of pounds each day in expenses without asking ministers any questions and rarely participating in the chamber of the House of Lords... more
The 52nd London Film Festival opened with the world premiere of a movie that started just round the corner from its showing in Leicester Square... more
RON HOWARD'S film is surprisingly gripping. It turns on the incremental power shifts in the set-up and execution of the 1977 TV interview in which David Frost got the disgraced President Richard Nixon to admit he had let the American people down with his criminal conduct in the Watergate affair.... more
A PR expert drafted into Downing Street to help boost Gordon Brown's image is set to be sidelined after complaints that he is not "political" enough... more
The enforced strategic retreat from digital audio broadcasting by GCap Media may not herald the end of DAB, but it certainly begs many questions about its future... more
Outspoken painter David Hockney doesn't regret his outburst against the anti-smoking lobby. The attempt to control all areas of our lives has gone too far he says... more
Peter Morgan is Britain's hottest television, film and stage writer. His brilliance is in imagining the private conversations of the power players. Just don't call it docudrama, he says.... more
Peter Morgan's enthralling play Frost/Nixon follows President Nixon's extraordinary trial by television and offers fascinating insights on the relationship between politics and the media.... more
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