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Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

Housing market like pantomime season

Nights are drawing in, Christmas is coming and the pantomime season will soon be upon us.Read

Peter Jackson column

According to the latest figures there is an increasing gap between Government revenue and expenditure.Read

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

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

Growing grant resentment

Business leaders have condemned the huge cash grants given to high profile companies coming into the North-EastRead

Terror attack hurts Burberry

Retail giant GUS has revealed that luxury goods brand Burberry had suffered a fall in sales but insisted its demerger was still on track.Read

Sabena and bmi add to air crisis

Europe's air industry crisis deepened last night with a fresh wave of job losses, bankruptcies and heavily reduced passenger numbers.Read

Discount retailer in red after bid battle

Discount retailer TJ Hughes has reported a slide into the red after being hit by costs of fighting off a hostile takeover, and the discovery earlier this year that stock had been overvalued.Read

Good result for Mayborn

Baby products-to-fabric dyes group Mayborn says it has turned the corner after three years of 'disappointing under-performance'.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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