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Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

Hogwart's hat would make more sense

James Murdoch, son of Rupert, is to undergo psychometric testing to establish whether he is suitable to be the next chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting.Read

Why not try the races for entertaining?

My life is not just one long round of pleasure, but last weekend did see me indulging heavily in corporate entertainment.Read

Where health and safety has gone beyond reasonable

The TUC's new leader Brendan Barber set the tone of the Brighton conference in a speech accusing the Government of being too sympathetic to employers.Read

Keep fingers crossed for influx of civil servants

Think Tank Catalyst has called for more bureaucrats to be moved out of London and the South-East as the only way to tackle the North/ South divide.Read

About time we stopped playing with our food

Those of us who have been religiously eating our five portions of fruit and veg a day to protect against heart disease may have been overdoing it, it seems.Read

Down the line, it will all be forgotten

Surely nobody can remain unaware that BT's 192 directory enquiries service is being replaced by a series of six-figure numbers beginning with 118.Read

Peter Jackson column

Last week I wrote about roadworks and their prevalence. They are something of an obsession of mine, but don't worry, I don't intend to bang on about them again.Read

Councils could make millions from road works

Alastair Campbell's appearance before a House of Commons committee last week inevitably attracted a great deal of coverage.Read

Guidelines are not the best way to tackle workplace stress

It is a fact of life I have observed that, just as everybody believes themselves to have a good sense of humour, so everybody believes themselves to have stressful jobs.Read

Why our ministers should try to do less work

Alan Milburn is to be congratulated for quitting the Cabinet to spend more time with his family.Read

Peter Jackson column

Some time ago I wrote to express my surprise at the informal pro-euro alliance of some Tories and industrialists and trades unionists.Read

This trick is as old as the benny hills

I'm delighted to declare to the world this week that I'm rich. In fact, I'm filthy rich - or at least I soon will be.Read

An ethical approach to excessive boardroom pay

I wonder if anyone other than Mr Garnier is upset that shareholders vetoed the GlaxoSmithKline chief executive's pay package - anyone that is, apart from any Mrs Garnier and any little Garniers.Read

I think that might be the light

I'm tempted to really stick my neck out this week and predict that the global economy has turned a corner.Read

We need to have a German recovery

The bank holiday weekend saw the family and me in Germany taking advantage of a wonderfully cheap flight to Cologne.Read

Long live our latest revolution

I wrote last week about the amazing variety of consumer goods modern capitalism has provided in the past 50 years.Read

The Iraq aftermath is surely a golden opportunity for Vickers

It seems unseemly, to say the least, to start discussing the juicy contracts which will be available once the rebuilding of Iraq gets under way.Read

Small advances threatened by red tape

Small is beautiful. I'm referring, of course to businesses. Where once the emphasis was on encouraging and sustaining the bigger enterprises, particularly if they were inward investors, now the belief is that it is the SMEs that should be encouraged.Read

Blair plums the depths with unsuitable suit

I sympathise with Tony Blair, I really do. I'm not thinking of the Iraq thing, no, it's that deeply unfortunate plum-coloured suit, a suit universally condemned as one of history's great fashion mistakes.Read

Stumble in services sector

Britain's services sector grew at its weakest pace in nearly a year last month after business was hurt by worries about the economic situation and potential war, a new survey has revealed.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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