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Peter Jackson

David Harrison

David Harrison, managing director of True Potential

DAVID Harrison, founder of one firm of independent financial advisers, has now built another in a rapidly-changing market place. Read

Scott Davidson, general manager, Jesmond Dene Hotel

Scott Davidson, general manager, Jesmond Dene House Hotel

TWO weeks ago we featured the outgoing general manager of Jesmond Dene House Hotel, today we profile his successor Scott Davidson who speaks to Peter Jackson.Read

A woman's touch at the banks?

WHAT have the bankers ever done for us, to paraphrase the line from Life of Brian. Well, for one thing they furnish us with seemingly limitless copy as we pick over what damage they have done to the global economy, how they did it and the fall out.Read

Listening in to bankers' illuminating conversation

WHEN I was in banking, I once had a colleague who had worked in the Stratford branch of a clearing bank.Read

No party will be able to take the pain

ARE the markets right to give a vote of no confidence in sterling? As I write, it is down against the US$ for the sixth day at US$1.49 – its lowest for 10 months.Read

Is there no way to solve the UK debt conundrum?

IF YOU are an average household and save £1 out of every £10, you'll spend nine years bringing your wealth back up to the average of the past 20 years.Read

History can teach us all so much

BILLIONAIRE financier George Soros recently said that gold, currently at a historical high of around US$ 1,100 an ounce is the ultimate asset bubble.Read

If rates go up, you read it here first

NINE months ago I remarked that gold was over US$900 an ounce and that some mavericks were even predicting the price reaching US$1,500.Read

Working harder, for more days

WELCOME back after the break – if you are back after the break that is. The reason for that caveat is that January is the worst month for sick leave, according to HR consultants Mercer.Read

Don’t let the silly beggars get you down

SIR Liam Donaldson has resigned as the chief medical officer, so Christmas has come early to those of us who do not subscribe to his grim Calvinist view of life.Read

Full refit is needed, not a patch-up

PICTURE Barak Obama’s predecessor, having just taken up the presidential reins, sitting down to type at a computer, only to clutch his head and emit a Homer Simpson-style ‘d’oh’!Read

No reason for keeping bank bail-out under wraps

IT has been quite a week for the release of hitherto secret information. For one thing, the Iraq War Inquiry has opened and will run and run, until we are as heartily bored by that conflict as by Bloody Sunday.Read

What were lessons of falling wall?

WHAT were you doing when the Berlin Wall came down? It does not seem that long ago, so it’s a bit of shock to realise we have just hit the 20th anniversary.Read

Will we soon see an age of austerity?

I AM sorry, but I have to remind you – if the shops haven’t already – that Christmas is coming. Have you been trying to hunt out presents early and beat the crowds? No, me neither. Read

Does the EU deserve Mr Blair?

TWEETERS are being invited to submit questions for the spirits of departed celebrities including Michael Jackson and William Shakespeare as part of the world’s first Twitter seance.Read

Balancing act - with population

WORK until you drop - or at least until you are 66 - is the new proposal from the Conservative Party.Read

Rail plan is blow to North East

OUR hopes of getting a high-speed rail line on the East Coast between London and Edinburgh would appear to have been deal a fatal blow - or two fatal blows.Read

Downside of paying off your debts

IF you are an average household and save £1 out of every £10, you’ll spend nine years bringing your wealth back up to the average of the past 20 years.Read

Mutuals have lesson for banks

THEY learn nothing and forget nothing, it was said of the Bourbons. The same is true of banks. Well, actually, banks just learn nothing.Read

Record gold prices are not always good news

I ALWAYS like to keep an eye on the gold price as it can drop so many hints as to what is going on in the rest of the economy.Read

Author Profile

Peter Jackson is a former business editor on The Journal who is now a director of PR agency Press Ahead. He is a native of Lancashire who worked in the City of London, after graduating from Oxford with a degree in Modern History. He entered journalism, working on papers in the North West, before joining The Journal as a business reporter in 1995. After a spell on features desk, he was business editor between 1999 and 2003. Under his editorship, the paper was names business paper of the year and in his time he won four regional and two national journalism awards, including BT Regional Business Journalist of the Year. He left The Journal to become managing director of Benchmark Media Newcastle and later joined Press Ahead as a director. He is also a non-executive director of Durham FM.

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