Poor Laura Fernee revealed a painful truth on national daytime television yesterday: she is just too beautiful to work. The thirty-three year old scientist says that her slim figure and pretty face have made the world of employment intolerable. Men cannot treat her as anything other than an object of desire and female colleagues hate [...]

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Poor old John Lewis: there is bad news for the company breaking in today’s online pages. The headlines do not focus on the company’s forty-three stores across Britain or its provision of goods and services to the population or employment for 38,100 people; nor even a hint of its multiple charitable foundations which give out thousands of donations a [...]

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When announcing the introduction of a new breeding silverback to the gorilla enclosure at London Zoo, we were provided with a great example of how a picture can transcend a story. The Guardian completely filled a double page spread with this stunning image of Kumbuka, the fifteen-year old twenty-nine stone western lowland gorilla who arrived [...]

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As the CIPR election for President for 2014 enters its final week before voting we caught up with Admiral PR chairman and candidate Stephen Waddington about his ambition, motivation and vision for the CIPR. Q. Why are you standing for CIPR President? A. The public relations industry stands at a moment in time. We have [...]

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Jemima Khan described Peter Mandelson yesterday as ‘one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met’. As insults go, it may not be in the top division. It probably will never rival the acerbic comments of the great wits of the century like Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde or Nancy Astor whose finely [...]

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By Agi Szabadi Manchester Metropolitan University Masters student Agi Szabadi has written a post for the Admiral blog talking about  tech start-up companies and how they encourage local economies to thrive. Today’s start-up companies are definitely the future of the UK economy. It might have been difficult to launch a new company in the past, [...]

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