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Just talking rubbish...
Posted on 12:05pm Tuesday 3rd November 2009
With the possibility of a bin men's strike upon us, Jo Chipchase discusses her penchant for communal bins like they have in Spain, instead of weekly refuse collections where we must accommodate our festering black bags on our own premises...
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Crossing Jordan: I won’t be slinging mud
Posted on 2:32pm Wednesday 21st October 2009
The newspaper reading public is constantly cussing Jordan but are other women simply jealous of self-made successes and keen to shoot down convenient targets?
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Naked human X-rays in airports: do we really want this technology to take off?
Posted on 3:52pm Thursday 15th October 2009
Manchester Airport has recently installed a human X-ray machine as an alternative to body frisking when passengers reach security. However, is this a harmless technology to speed up the process and avoid queues or is it an example of 'Big Brother' taking over in Britain?
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Why Sharon Shoesmith should Win a ‘PR Spade and Shovel’ Award
Posted on 3:26pm Monday 12th October 2009
I avidly followed the Baby P case after it exploded into the headlines in November 2008 and was, from the start, surprised by the lack of PR sense and humility displayed by Sharon Shoesmith, the ex-head of Haringey children’s services who was sacked after shortcomings in her department’s child protection systems came to light.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Ponderings on Brighton’s parking palavers
Posted on 4:33pm Thursday 8th October 2009
For the last few years, parking in Brighton and Hove has proved a nightmare – to the point where it fuelled my urge to spend time in the backwoods of Andalusia, where the locals can’t execute a reverse parking manoeuvre to save their lives (or their clutches) and some of the streets are designed for mules, not Transporter vans. But at least there aren’t wardens wandering around waiting for long-suffering motorists to remain stationery on the ‘wrong’ spot for too long so they can slap a little something on the windscreen.
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