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Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson column

According to two recent studies, office politics are poisoning the atmosphere in business and adding to the burden on management.Read

Peter Jackson column

Some Italian lawmakers want almost to double the number of national holidays.Read

Peter Jackson column

It's nothing new for business to bemoan the decline in standards among graduates in traditional academic subjects. Employers have long complained that employees fresh from university cannot write a letter that is grammatical or spelt correctly and that their numeracy skills also leave a lot to be desired. We know that British non-language graduates are far less likely to be fluent in another tongue than their European or Asian counterparts.Read

Peter Jackson Column

So farewell then Tony Blair. Actually, not quite, in fact the old ham will be around for another seven weeks, treating us to his - onion in hand - rendition of "I did it my way".Read

Peter Jackson column

If, contrary to my predictions, Nicolas Sarkozy succeeds in reforming France, he will provide a further example of a historical observation of mine.Read

Peter Jackson column

Our rich are not just getting richer, they are getting much, much richer. In fact, they are getting filthy richer.Read

Peter Jackson column

Those who prefer some ideological red meat in their politics will be looking enviously across the Channel.Read

Peter Jackson column

As an infant I was unable to spell the word "went" and persistently wrote "whent".Read

Peter Jackson column

A white mouse running loose in a Boeing 777 delayed a Vietnam Airlines flight to Tokyo for more than four hours.Read

Peter Jackson column

I have told Gordon Brown many times that he should have got out while the going was good, but then, nobody ever listens to me.Read

Peter Jackson column

It may be getting a little late in the year, but I'll make a prediction. By the autumn Europe will have moved back up the political and business agenda.Read

Peter Jackson column

Some quarter of a million jobs have been created in Scotland since 1997, boasts Tony Blair in an article published last week.Read

Peter Jackson column

Scottish economist Adam Smith features on the new £20 notes, the first time, apparently, a Scotsman has appeared on an English note.Read

Peter Jackson column

Governments can take away our ancient liberties, they can take us into costly foreign wars and they can tax us until the pips squeak, but we, the great British public remain docile.Read

Peter Jackson column

Farmers have long been famous for their grumbling, for being able to see the cloud encasing any silver lining.Read

Peter Jackson column

In public relations, as with so much else in life, timing is everything.Read

Peter Jackson column

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. And now we are told that a preliminary first step, paving the way for madness, is to make people affluent.Read

Peter Jackson column

Tony Blair is said to be much concerned about his legacy as Prime Minster, about what he will leave behind him and how he will be remembered.Read

Peter Jackson column

Biggest is best seems to be the current watchword in gambling.Read

Peter Jackson column

We seem to exist in a state of permanent, near-hysterical indignation these days.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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