A Time of Trial: Ombudsman News
It looks – and sounds – like a publication that exists purely to hit notoriety in the ‘Missing Words’ round of Have I Got News For You. For all that, and its bookish layout, Ombudsman News is a surprisingly interesting read.
The recent decline in living standards, the high-publicised banking malpractices, and the ongoing technological changes that make financial management a more intricate affair, are all contributors to a rise in the number of complaints passed on to the world’s biggest arbitrator, which already employs close to 2,000 people.
And the Ombudsman News bulletin features plenty of complaint case studies, along with investigative details, the final resolution and the adjudicators’ reasoning.
Read more »Why Choose Which4U As Your Comparison Site?
It’s April, and snowing. I’m heading up North tonight, where, even more incredulously, it’s not.
But a storm of sorts is brewing – in the advertising world – and with my roots still firmly set in the North-East, it’s invariably made its way to my attention.
Take a bow, Newcastle Brown. It’s difficult not to smirk or laugh out loud. It’s a brilliant and clever piece of marketing.
It’s reactionary. It’s good banter – conversational, cheeky, controversial, but not quite crossing the line. It synchronises beautifully with local identity and sensibility – especially given the Gallic flavour of many of Stella’s recent television ads.
Read more »King & Country: Who Wants the Blame for the Economic Crisis?
Even in the world of literary theory, semantics is a thorny field. Transpose that to an uncomfortable argument about where to attribute blame for the onset of the financial crisis, and we’re all on tenterhooks.
Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King made an unlikely admission this week that the Bank, under his stewardship, should have done more “to prevent the disaster”.
“Our banking and financial system overextended itself”, he observed, in a speech on the BBC’s Today Programme Lecture.
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