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Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson column

Over the last 10 years the decline of the UK's manufacturing sector has been a constant refrain.Read

Peter Jackson column

Baggage handlers on a wildcat strike and the inflation rate up - it's like the 1970s all over again.Read

Peter Jackson column

Apart from the leadership, there's another debate in the Tory Party about what its philosophy and policies should be.Read

Peter Jackson column

Nostalgia is definitely not what it used to be. By which I do not mean that nostalgia is going to the dogs, but that the memory plays tricks and we often don't remember things as they truly were.Read

Peter Jackson column

Well, she's gone and done it again.Read

Peter Jackson column

Before we were so rudely interrupted, the world's attention was focused on the G8 summit, an event dominated by Africa and the need to do something to tackle its grinding poverty.Read

Peter Jackson column

Great expectations have been raised by the G8 Summit, if not for tackling climate change, then certainly for making an impact on African poverty.Read

I have known the odd philistine to favour ketchup rather than HP

There is a motif running through the news at the moment, which could take on the significance of `Bad Wolf' in the recent Dr Who series.Read

Peter Jackson column

It is gratifying for those of us who remember the 1970s to watch the economic tribulations of the French, Germans and Japanese.Read

Peter Jackson column

There are lies, damn lies and CVs. Or at least according to the latest figures released by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, CIPD, there are.Read

Peter Jackson column

Do you remember fat cat pay deals? Those enormous remuneration packages certain chief executives of certain public companies rewarded themselves with in the 1990s.Read

Peter Jackson column

Thousands of manufacturing jobs will be lost over the next few months following a sharp fall in orders.Read

Peter Jackson column

I'm sure it happens to you as often as it happens to me. Someone visiting from outside the region puts you on the spot and asks how the regional economy is going.Read

Peter Jackson column

I had been wondering, off-and-on, over the past year, what happened to the Segway.Read

Peter Jackson column

There seem to be certain recurrent themes to life, certain things that come round with the regularity of Halley's Comet, though with much greater frequency.Read

Peter Jackson column

I suppose we should be pretty grateful that the worst domestic economic news seems to be continued gloom on the high street.Read

Peter Jackson column

It's good to see Japanese electronics giant Sony has turned to a Briton in its hour of need. The 150,000-employee company, which has just appointed Welshman Sir Howard Stringer as chairman, is in some need.Read

Peter Jackson column

A new tourism strategy has been unveiled for the North-East, which, it is hoped, will bring two million visitors a year to the region.Read

Peter Jackson column

It may be hard to imagine at the moment, but spring and summer are on their way, seasons of sun, flowers - and economic summits.Read

Peter Jackson column

At a national "gum summit" in London there are calls to tax chewing gum to deal with the problem of the stuff being irresponsibly spat onto the street.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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