A member of the Prison Officers Association has revealed that inmates enjoy their jail time so much that if an escaping opportunity came up; they would rather ignore it.
Glyn Travis is a member of the association and explained how a drug dealer regularly used a ladder to enter cell windows at a Yorkshire prison, but none of the inmates used the ladder as a means of escape.
Shockingly, Travis also revealed the reasons why inmates are happy to stay in jail is because they have access to drugs, mobile phones and even sex.
Tobacco companies face criticism as the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has accused them of unlawful practices.
Retailers such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons along with tobacco groups Imperial Tobacco and Gallaher are accused of arranging to swap future pricing information.
The OFT said in 2000 and 2003 similar understandings between tobacco companies limited the retailers’ ability “to determine its selling price independently”.
Some said it was too good to last and some were right. It seems that Obama’s love affair with the US media is over just proving that if you’ve got the media on your side, it won’t necessarily stay that way as The Bulletin points out.
It had been 10 days, an eternity on the election calendar, since Barack Obama held a press availability session with reporters traveling alongside him on the campaign trail. In the 10 days that passed, the Colombia Free Trade bill died, the price of oil continued to skyrocket, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with Hamas.
With a number of key questions piling up, one NBC off-air reporter decided to approach the Illinois senator as he was having breakfast with Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. at a Scranton eatery and ask a question. As Mr. Obama sat in Glider Diner, the reporter sought a comment from him over Mr. Carter’s meeting with Hamas.
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” Mr. Obama retorted. The response ignited a firestorm of criticism and once again placed the presidential candidate under the microscope of the growing love/hate relationship he has with the press. Read the rest of this entry »
During our training sessions Media Mentor emphasises the importance of body language and keeping your emotions under wraps – after all body language accounts for 55% of the message received by an audience (with voice tonality accounting for 38% and words a mere 7%).
So, we were thrilled to find this article in The Times illustrating the changing faces of Gordon Brown who is a man who, to say the least, has trouble with his body language and facial expressions. Enjoy (and learn from his mistakes). Read the rest of this entry »
The Washington Times reports today that a coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that Sen. John McCain stop using the adjective “Islamic” to describe terrorists and extremist enemies of the United States.
Muneer Fareed, who heads the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), told The Washington Times that his group is beginning a campaign to persuade Mr. McCain to rephrase his descriptions of the enemy. Read the rest of this entry »
Does John Prescott’s admission that he suffered from bulimia while deputy prime minister deserve sympathy, suspicion or ridicule? Whether it’s his syntax, his affairs or his fondness for Jaguars, the papers have found plenty of reasons to tease Prescott. But his revelation that he suffered from bulimia has prompted some rare sympathy for the former deputy prime minister. Read the rest of this entry »
The Times reports today that anybody who has seen Gordon Brown lose his temper does not easily forget it. The image of an angry bear springs to mind, except angry bears cannot usually get their hands on items of office equipment to fling around. The prime minister is said to be very angry at the media this weekend for creating a political storm in what he regards as a tax teacup. He is angry with the independent experts who have calculated that 5.3m families will lose out as a result of the abolition of the 10p income tax band…. Read the rest of this entry »
The Evening Standard newspaper has made accusations directed towards Scotland Yard that the police are ‘massaging’ their crime figures.
Scotland Yard has denied such accusations and insist that crime rates in London have indeed fallen.
Together with this accusation, the newspaper has also published details that local police stations are deliberately making it more difficult for people to report crimes.
An example is that people hoping to report mobile phone theft are told that unless they have the phone’s IMEI number there is nothing the police can do, which therefore discourages people from reporting such crimes.
Harriet Harman of the Labour party has hired a new press advisor.
Lyn Bryan will be working for the party’s deputy leader and is moving from press office at the Department for Food and Rural Affairs.
Barack Obama has so far given Hillary Clinton a run for her money in terms of the American presidential elections. That was until he said to fundraisers in San Francisco: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them it’s not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
An article published in the Sun newspaper has revealed that obese people hoping for surgery are being turned away and urged to put on more weight.
In the tabloid’s ever-tasteful language ‘Soaring demand in one of Britain’s lardiest cities means only super-fatties can be treated’.
While crises can’t be predicted, planning and preparation can make the difference between coming out on top or going under.
A company’s reputation is king, especially in the government market, where buying decisions hinge on past performance and trust. However, scrutiny reaches an extreme level when a crisis strikes, thrusting companies into the court of public opinion.
Cancelled contracts, disgruntled employees, backdated options, security breaches, C-level employees facing lawsuits, classified information leaks, natural disasters, employee deaths — all companies can any one of these crises at any given time. Are you prepared? Read the rest of this entry »
It appears that Dr. Rowan William hasn’t learned his lesson. Following his much criticised comments last year, the Archbishop has claimed that Christians are suffering in the Middle East as a result of US foreign policy. But what’s interesting is that the Archbishop felt the need to also lay the suffering at the hands of what he called the “unfriendly form of Islam.” Read the rest of this entry »
When the Beijing Olympics were announced, a strategic programme of media training sessions was immediately put in place. No surprise, you might think. But the surprise is that the media training was commissioned by Students For A Free Tibet, not the Chinese Olympic organisers or the Government. The result? You can see it on your TV screens and read it in your papers every day. Read the rest of this entry »
In the wake of the disastrous opening of the new Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport, British Airways has acted by announcing that operations director, Gareth Kirkwood (right) and customer services director, David Noyes, would be leaving the company.
The two senior executives have paid the price for the fiasco surrounding the opening of the new facility, which saw hundreds of flights cancelled and some 28,000 bags going astray. Read the rest of this entry »
Dark clouds of gloom at Labour party headquarters this week as polls suggest that Gordon Brown has quickly become the lowest-ranked Prime Minister since Neville Chamberlain.
Following a brief honeymoon period, when Brownite hotheads almost persuaded their boss to call a general election which they believed would crush the Conservatives for good, Brown’s support has plummeted. The financial downturn hasn’t helped the man who made certain that his name and mug were attached to any news of British economic success during the Blair era.
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How you speak is influenced greatly by who it is that you are speaking to, and what it is that you want to say.
In politics nothing is accidental. Candidate’s words and style of presentation are constantly being shaped by what it is that will contact with voters and give them what they want to hear – so that you will get the most votes.
So for example, Barack Obama is a candidate founded on ‘hope’; his entire campaign is based on ‘aspiration’ and ‘change’. As a result, his style of presentation isn’t aggressive, isn’t bloated by numbers or statistics and isn’t based on how bad things are.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown appeared on US talent show ‘American Idol’ to discuss Britain’s successes towards the fight against Malaria on Wednesday evening.
He said he was proud that Britain was leading the way by supplying the funds for 20 million bed nets.
Generally speaking, a politician on a music show never mixes well, particularly our Prime Minister – who let’s be honest is hardly Mr Charisma.
Delia Smith has been accused of suggesting meals with too much salt content.
In her latest recipe book How to Cheat at Cooking she suggests adding ingredients to ready-made meals rather than starting from scratch.
Unfortunately, ready-made meals commonly contain high fat and salt levels and therefore it appears Delia Smith is suggesting foods with over the daily recommended salt intake in one meal.
