WPP backed CHI&Partners acquires stake in Halpern
The world of public relations can be fickle and few who work in it command the level of respect that Jenny Halpern Prince has built up since she founded Halpern on her kitchen table in 1992. Today, in an email newsletter, it was announced that a stake in her agency had been acquired by CHI&Partners, a company backed by Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP. (more…)
20 questions with Pom Harrington of leading rare book dealers Peter Harrington
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Integrity.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
Do judge a book by its cover.
20 questions with financier Amir Zada
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Health, hard work, love and laughter.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“Revenge is a waste of time, as is gloating”.
20 questions with Graham Seed, best known for having played Nigel Pargetter in BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Archers’
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
My wife, of course.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“Success and failure are irrelevant. Do what makes you happy and do it a little better everyday… And don’t forget to breathe”.
20 questions with writer, television personality and co-founder of Body Gossip Natasha Devon
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
I’m driven by a desire to make everything fair (and to silence the people who would have us believe that injustice can be explained by that irritating platitude – “life’s not fair”).
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
I nicked one from Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself, everyone else is taken”.
Sarah Tucker recounts an interview with Sir David Frost
I was once lucky enough to interview Sir David Frost. He was one of my interviewees for a show I devised for Sky called Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? Others in the series included Lord Menuhin and Anita Roddick. (more…)
Katie Hopkins proves that she is indeed scared of The Steeple Times
She gives it out like a trooper but she plainly can’t take it when it comes back at her. After a correspondence on Twitter, we offered media mouthpiece Katie Hopkins the chance to do our 20 question “What’s on your mantelpiece?” interview. We thought the media loving home wrecker – whose website states that she’s into “Telling it like it is” – would jump at the chance, but thus far she’s failed to answer. (more…)
20 questions with Xero Vodka founder William Seth-Smith
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
I try never to turn down adventure for the sake of easy apathy.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
Those that mind don’t matter and those than matter don’t mind.
20 questions with property market expert Henry Pryor
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“Cheering the underdog”.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“There are only two types of ‘expert’ when it comes to predicting house prices – those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know”.
20 questions with founder of The People’s Book Prize Tatiana von Saxe Wilson
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Pursuit and success.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“Make the best better”.