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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Why do we need SociaLIGHT? Why, you may ask, have we spent the last six months refining the analytics and markers so that our social media index is a qualitative piece of work reflecting an exact point in time on the social media journeys of top companies in the North of England? Well, because you [...]

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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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We are a nation of statistics lovers. We love statistics, that is, not lovers. Although research published recently by Cadbury reveals that ten per cent of women secretly find their boyfriends’ fathers attractive which appears to make a stab at covering both options as far as I can see. Meanwhile, in the same week, a survey by Travelodge [...]

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In her Admiral blogging debut, social media PR specialist Anne-Marie Bailey, shares her thoughts about       Britain’s first Youth Crime Commissioner, social media pitfalls and the lessons we can all learn… You can’t have missed it. It’s been all over the news.  Paris Brown, the UK’s first [and potentially last] Youth Crime Commissioner has made a bit of [...]

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There is an old adage that tells us there are two sides to every story. How true: nothing is ever black and white. Last week there was much written about Mother Teresa of Calcutta, dividing opinion across the globe. To some she was a selfless Christian who gave her life to working with the poorest of [...]

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