As predicted in a blog by an Edinburgh office colleague yesterday, the Scottish Government has today published a paper claiming that Scotland’s economy has everything to gain from the country being independent. This is in stark contrast to the Treasury report published yesterday that claims Scotland a great deal to lose. At the core of [...]
MHP set to draw new lines in the sand with Riyadh Metro appointment There was a real buzz around the MHP offices today, as we were able to officially announce our appointment to provide global strategic communications support for Riyadh’s planned Metro system. As the largest public transport project currently in development anywhere in the [...]
Today the UK Government published the third paper in its Scotland analysis series, looking at the future of financial services and banking in an independent Scotland. Unsurprisingly, the Treasury found that Scotland faces financial doom if it were to separate from the Union. However, we will likely find out from the Scottish Government tomorrow as [...]
I woke up this morning to the news that Yahoo is looking at buying tumblr. By the time I was on the bus, GigaOm had raised the spectre of Facebook swooping in to scupper the deal. By now, everyone is wondering if this billion dollar acquisition will be as successful as Yahoo’s $3.6bn acquisition of [...]
It was with a certain amount of caution when the Bank of England announced yesterday that five years on from the financial crisis, Britain is finally heading in the direction of sustained economic recovery. The Bank revealed its future plans to trim back its inflation outlook and extend its growth forecast for the first [...]
Sean Worth, Senior Strategic Adviser, MHP Communications Apart from the surge by UKIP in the recent local elections, politics has lacked its usual spark of late. The opinion polls aren’t moving much. The legislative programme introduced in the Queen’s Speech was pretty empty. Labour still hasn’t set out an alternative policy platform. It may look [...]
In this report published by MHP today (and making headline news in the Times), members of our senior team give their views on how politics will unfold over the next two years. Will the Coalition Government stay together until the 2015 general election? Can the Conservatives recover and win on their own? Can the Liberal [...]
Generations of British politicos been able to peer smugly across the Atlantic at the dysfunction and pettiness of the US political system. The gridlock and partisan obstructionism in Congress is nothing new – President Truman successfully campaigned against the “do-nothing Congress” of 1948 – but the current vintage does appear to be particularly obstreperous. How [...]
With most of the media frenzy surrounding the Queen’s Speech focused on the proposed Immigration Bill and whether it will help to sway voters back to the Tories from UKIP, another set piece of legislation that will have significant implications for the probation service has largely gone overlooked. The Offender Rehabilitation Bill will allow the [...]
This month, Hello! magazine turns 25 years old. Over the past quarter of a century, Hello! has established itself as the chronicler of the births, marriages and deaths of the rich and famous. Celebrities profiled have included Lady Helen Taylor, Zara Phillips, and Elizabeth Hurley. So intense has its focus been on the upper [...]