Jason Nisse
Party Fears Too
Who’d be a press officer. Not Allegra Stratton any more, after she following the leaking of a video showing her joking about the...
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Jason Nisse
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Is Peppa Pig Boris’ Bacon Sarnie?
Tuesday 5th May 2015 will always be etched on the memory of Ed Miliband. That’s the day he was photographed uncomfortably eating a bacon...
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Jason Nisse
- Oct 5, 2021
- 2 min
You Can't Buy Immigrants
Be honest. Was anyone surprised that Boris Johnson had to admit to the BBC that the attempts to recruit foreign HGV drivers with...
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Jason Nisse
- Sep 20, 2021
- 3 min
Chronic Energy Problems
There has been a mild panic in the Nisse household after the energy company we had just agreed to switch to had the bad manners to go...
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Jason Nisse
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Too Much Pressure
It’s a 40 yard walk from the centre of the pitch, where the team lines up, to the penalty spot. The goal is 12 yards away and seems to...
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Jason Nisse
- May 18, 2021
- 2 min
Keir Madness
Sir Keir Starmer always strikes me as a sensible chap. Rather too sensible and safe, many would say. As someone who re-joined the Labour...
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Jason Nisse
- Apr 21, 2021
- 2 min
Football, fans and forgiveness
Sir Elton John, once of course the owner of Watford Football Club, famously sang: “Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” As the “big six”...
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Jason Nisse
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Super league, dreadful comms
One of my most disappointing moments as an Arsenal fan was the Champions League final in 2006. One nil up with just 10 men, our...
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Jason Nisse
- Dec 1, 2020
- 3 min
Dukes of risk - or hazard
Crossing the road the other day I was stopped by the mother of one of my son’s schoolfriends. Our socially distanced chat soon turned to...
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Jason Nisse
- Aug 5, 2020
- 3 min
I'm Three
Thank you to everyone for the good wishes on the third anniversary of me setting up on my own. I actually missed the date because I was...
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Jason Nisse
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min
What is Essential?
Anyone who follows me on LinkedIn will have noticed I’ve been involved in a spat with two economists over an article one of them wrote in...
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Jason Nisse
- Apr 28, 2020
- 2 min
Tearing Up The Plans
In the deep recesses of my record collection I have a 12-inch EP called “Tearing Up The Plans” by a band called 23 Skidoo. This...
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Jason Nisse
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
Second Home Thoughts From A Bloke
An Englishman’s home is his castle. For the last few weeks it has been our isolation ward, office, schoolroom, gym, craft centre, disco...
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Jason Nisse
- Feb 4, 2020
- 2 min
Delighted to reach out to seasoned, passionate curators
(updated to take in additional banned words) The great philosopher David Byrne said in the seminal Talking Heads song Psychokiller...
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Jason Nisse
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
Is fibbing the future?
Should you advise your client to lie? Of course, the answer is “No”. But with the success of one mendacious campaign for Leave, and the...
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Jason Nisse
- Aug 28, 2018
- 2 min
But seriously folks
There is something I am taking very seriously, the phrase “taking very seriously”. It seems that there is nothing – from major disasters...
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Jason Nisse
- Aug 16, 2018
- 3 min
A year of independence
It is a year since I set up on my own with The Nisse Consultancy. After two decades as a financial journalist, and more than a decade in...
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Jason Nisse
- May 15, 2018
- 1 min
How to mount - or defend - a hostile campaign
Over the years I have developed quite a bit of experience mounting and defending hostile campaigns. My most recent success has been...
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Jason Nisse
- Mar 28, 2018
- 3 min
Cricket, anti-Semitism, Facebook and running bucks
Back when the US had presidents you could admire, Harry S Truman had a sign on his desk that said “the buck stops here”. But when trying...
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Jason Nisse
- Feb 23, 2018
- 2 min
Elvis, mad bastards and queues in the streets – Northern Rock revisited
It’s almost exactly 10 years since I was sitting in a large meeting room at lawyers Slaughter and May, surrounded by civil servants,...
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