Dec 21 2008
... e a London newspaper, for example, and you back a ’save the small shops’ ... But please, spare the public belt-tightening and self-promoting stinginess if you are in a position to help the economy, support businesses and keep things running, e ven on the smallest scale. Your country needs you....
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Dec 19 2008
Johann Hari, in a commentary in The Indepedent (a London newspaper), called newspapers the most underrated phenomenon of 2008: ... Perhaps publications will have to rely more heavily on donations (a daunting prospect given the economy),...
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Newspapers
Dec 05 2008
Their Party Political Broadcast, which aired a day after Labour’s broadcast, concentrated on the economy and used the example of a building company boss, Shane P rescott and his family. ... But the Evening Standard, a Conservative supporting London newspaper, pointed out the next day:...
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Cameron's Conservatives can't even get their own PR right now
Dec 04 2008
... n alienated fourteen-year-old to write papers on the 1861-1865 opinions on the American situation of the Illustrated London News. ... n an economy that was still dependent on the whims of Northern commodity brokers and the capacity of California to out-compete the fickle yield of Florida harvests;...
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Holiday giving, or more than you ever wanted to know about Florida and just a bit re globalization
Oct 26 2008
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone today launched eight key policy points to help London meet the effects of the recession. The full text of Ken Livingstone’s statement is as follows: London has entered its first recession for fifteen years. Londoners know the value of their house is falling, their spending is squeezed, and an increasing number are worried about their job security. In this situation the Mayor of London should put forward clear policies which, in areas where he has power, can
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Eight point policy to help London meet the recession
Oct 22 2008
TOKYO—In 1953 as a fledgling journalist in Tokyo I went to the dean of foreign correspondents in Japan [the Far Eastern Bureau Chief for a major London n ... Just ten years later Japan was already on the verge of becoming the second largest economy in the world…a...
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The Importance of Dealing with Japan's Dynamic Diligence Factor!
Oct 16 2008
London needs ‘smarter solutions’ to tackle gang violence according to Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Speaking at the Gangs Guns and Weapons Practitioners Forum annual seminar the Mayor raised concerns about vulnerable young people being lured into criminal gangs. Mr Johnson also promised that his Youth Violence Strategy would include ‘hard hitting’ new plans to tackle crime. Speaking today Johnson said he was “filled with despair every time I read about another fatal stabbing or shooting It
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Oct 13 2008
One of the most lauded films from this years Festival de Canne finally reaches London and given my love of crime movies I was happy to see this Italian language film being screened at my local multiplex. Based on the best selling journalistic reportage of Roberto Saviano, ’Gomorrah‘ is a powerful presentation of the modern day Mafia who run rife through the poverty stricken tenements of Naples. The film is comprised of a half dozen or so threads detailing all strata’s of the Comorra clan, buildi
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Gomorrah
Oct 09 2008
Some new news just in from my newly-read Mayor of London news feed: "The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today joined Metropolitan Police Commander Rod Jarman and Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy to announce the 30 locations across London that will benefit from new transport policing teams." Excellent. So that's thirty extra teams of police in the capital. I guess I must have been a bit hasty with this question yesterday. But hang on wasn't Boris asked about this at the last Mayor's Questi
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Oct 08 2008
Boris Johnson yesterday announced that 30 police transport teams are to be deployed at major transport hubs across the capital after three pilot teams successfully reduced crimes by more than a third. The announcement was made during a visit to Bexleyheath by Mayor Johnson, Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy and Metropolitan Police Commander Rod Jarman. The Mayor also confirmed that 11 inner London borough-based policing teams, introduced by former Mayor Ken Livingstone, will be made perman
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Johnson announces major transport policing boost
