Features
Private equity, common good?
The Private Equity Foundation, set up 18 months ago, is a conduit for the sector to support charities. Here its CEO Shaks Ghosh explains how it is aiming to improve the lives of disadvantaged 16- to 24-year-olds – and rebuts accusations that the initiative is a PR stunt
Standing up for private equity
Simon Walker, the newly installed chief executive of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, wants the body to be ‘more campaigning’ as it looks to ‘demystify’ the sector
Draper bounces back
Ten years after the ‘Lobbygate’ scandal that rocked New Labour, Derek Draper tells Andrew Alexander about his rise, fall – and breaking into video production
Energy firms’ price hikes trigger vitriol
Energy companies’ winter price rises are not justified and Britain’s competitive energy market is ‘not working’, according to a poll undertaken for PAN by sister company Dods Polling
Public affairs in the North West
What are the big issues facing public affairs professionals outside London? Ian Hall heads to Manchester to host a roundtable of political communicators
On track for 2017
Crossrail is the ambitious pan-London rail-link planned to connect Berkshire with Essex by 2017. Here Clinton Leeks OBE explains how the scheme’s PA strategy has developed and the challenges that remain
If Boris won...
What would happen if Boris Johnson won the London mayoral election? James Ford on what a victory for the Conservative maverick in May could mean for PA professionals in the capital.
’08 kicks off
Robert Gordon Clark outlines the issues and sectors likely to dominate the agenda for PA professionals in London in the next 12 months.
Paddy's power
Lord Mayhew, who heads the advisory committee on business appointments, tells Andrew Alexander how the number of cases the committee deals with is on the rise
‘Northern Crock’ future divides opinion
The potential nationalisation of Northern Rock triggered support and opposition across the political spectrum, often contrary to what might have been expected, as press and online discussion about the stricken bank ebbed and flowed before Christmas.
