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Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Reviews on 2 September 2010. 2 comments.
Tony Blair’s memoirs are the most confessional in years from a world leader. The devout Catholic convert explains why politicians stray from their wives (not him so far as we know), escape to the loo for peace, and seek comfort in drink (in his case shockingly little of it). More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Reviews on 18 August 2010. One comment.
There’s been a hullabaloo about how Tony Blair’s gift of £4.6 million profit from his book to fund a Royal British Legion rehabilitation centre backfired. So allow me to defend Tony Blair’s acute sense of aligning his PR with the public mood. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Leisure / Zurich on 7 June 2010. 2 comments.
Robert Crampton opines in The Times that Zurich “scores top marks for utter bone-breaking tedium”. I guess he’s writing this stuff as a warning to wannabe tax exiles. So allow me to give them some informed insight into elite and popular lifestyles in Zurich. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Chernobyl Legacy / Reviews on 26 April 2010. No comments.
Voices From Chernobyl, The Oral History Of A Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich (translated by Keith Gessen)
Dalkey Archive Press, 2005 More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Credit Crunch / PR issues / Reviews on 3 March 2010. No comments.
Thanks to Richard Edelman I’m flagging an upcoming book every PR should read: Capitalism 4.0 by The Times economics analyst Anatole Kaletsky. Here’s a preview.
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Posted by Paul Seaman under Elm Park / West Ham United on 15 February 2010. 4 comments.
Unlike the BNP, self-respecting political parties don’t hold their Emergency General Meetings in East London’s notorious Elm Park pub. I know. It is where I roughhoused, before I made a bid for respectability and left. My memories of the place are bitter-sweet. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / West Ham United on 2 February 2010. 2 comments.
Despite having more off-side affairs than Tiger Woods, despite deceiving us all as Dad of the Year, while he dumped the kids to play away, I’m backing John Terry’s claim to remain captain of England. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under West Ham United on 19 January 2010. 9 comments.
My football club has been sold to pornographer David Sullivan and to Ann Summers‘ naughty lingerie-chain owner David Gold. Am I worried? Am I heck. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Elm Park / Leisure / Reviews on 7 January 2010. 8 comments.
Out tomorrow, a film that’ll mean a lot to me, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, a biopic of my hero from Upminister, Ian Dury. I’m not sure I’ll be able to watch it without crying. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues / Zurich on 12 November 2009. One comment.
When local boy Roman Geiser, Burson-Marsteller’s Swiss CEO, was catapulted into the stratosphere as Chief Operating Officer for EMEA, I just had to make the twenty-minute train ride to Zurich to interview him. More »
