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		<title>News round up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Cat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news in today’s papers was hard to come by – so straight onto the doom and gloom! The Telegraph and Guardian trail a speech today by David Cameron as he criticises what he sees as anti-business rhetoric over workfare and bankers bonuses. Given the tabloids and broadsheets were dominated by the latest bonus figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PMQs: Advice from the Bone household</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theopen-road.com/pmqs-advice-from-the-bone-household#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crazel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. Both David Cameron and Ed Miliband made me laugh in PMQs today, much to the derision of my desk neighbour. The length of Ed’s questions (not helped by an unusually high number of interjections by Speaker Bercow &#8211; good Lord, man) missed cues,  and Andrew Lansley trying to brief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women on Top</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imelda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The business media has been somewhat captivated recently by whether the Davies Review is actually working  one year after its launch, officially this Friday (24th February.) It’s a great excuse for the media to print pictures of some of our most glamorous female top executives (Angela Ahrendts – are those really Burberry sandals and where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeks Corner:  Five things you should know about Pinterest</title>
		<link>http://www.theopen-road.com/geeks-corner-five-things-you-should-know-about-pinterest</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopen-road.com/geeks-corner-five-things-you-should-know-about-pinterest#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Cat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopen-road.com/?p=3873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks Pinterest has been hotly tipped by all and sundry as the next big social media network. We first discovered it last year and since then one of my Open Road colleagues has been putting the service to good use. It’s got a visually engaging interface and big growth in members, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need a Health and Social Care Bill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.theopen-road.com/why-we-need-a-health-and-social-care-bill</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopen-road.com/why-we-need-a-health-and-social-care-bill#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That's how Sue sees it</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that the Government has finally realised they might not have been communicating exactly what their plans are for reforming the NHS. Simon Burns  spent the last week trying to explain exactly why a Bill is necessary for the NHS reforms. He listed 10 clear reasons why the Bill is just so important and helpfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentines day advertising: The good, bad and the ugly</title>
		<link>http://www.theopen-road.com/valentines-day-advertising-the-good-bad-and-the-ugly</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopen-road.com/valentines-day-advertising-the-good-bad-and-the-ugly#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Cat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media and PR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad pr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[badvertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PETA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PR]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopen-road.com/?p=3823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With it being a very busy week here at Open Road, this one nearly passed us by. But we thought it deserved to feature in our weekly &#8216;Bad PR&#8217; awards. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) joined the annual attempt by NGO&#8217;s and brands to jump on the Valentines day bandwagon. The pressure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to ease up on bankers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pink Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn’t help but agree with John Cridland speaking on the Today Programme this morning. He said that it’s wrong to reward failure – as has been the case with the bonuses of many CEOs and bankers over the past few years. But that is different to awarding bonuses  for good performance. Whether Hester deserved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out with the old: what next for energy policy?</title>
		<link>http://www.theopen-road.com/out-with-the-old-what-next-for-energy-policy</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopen-road.com/out-with-the-old-what-next-for-energy-policy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duckface</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As researchers and journalists around the UK start drawing up biographies of Ed Davey and scouring Hansard for past quotes, we thought we&#8217;d give you our take on what this means for UK energy policy. There may not be many sad faces as Chris Huhne packs his bag and heads off to meet his solicitors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week&#8217;s good PR</title>
		<link>http://www.theopen-road.com/this-weeks-good-pr</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopen-road.com/this-weeks-good-pr#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crazel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopen-road.com/?p=3787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally it takes us a good deal of concerted thinking (well, a few minutes) to identify our favourite bit of PR that we’ve seen recently, but not so this week. In fact, there’re two. Step forward Sainsbury’s and Asda, for this week, the supermarkets have it.  The story about the re-naming of Sainsbury’s tiger bread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PMQs – The Verdict</title>
		<link>http://www.theopen-road.com/pmq%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%93-the-verdict</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopen-road.com/pmq%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%93-the-verdict#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Cat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Public Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bankers Bonuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income Tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welfare Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Banker’s bonuses and executive pay was the principal battleground at this week’s PMQs &#8211; after Fred Goodwin was stripped of his knighthood in what some might call an act of meaningless political tokenism. Ed Miliband has gained some credit in recent weeks with his emphasis on the bonus culture and ever rising executive pay, but [...]]]></description>
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