The Apprentice winner’s big problem

The Apprentice winner’s big problem

This year, we’ve sat through Gone Girl, Night Crawler and Gravity, but nothing made such breathless and squirm-inducing viewing as The Apprentice winner – Mark Wright’s relentless discomfort when facing three perfectly nice-looking people who may or may not have...
Smells like entrepreneurial spirit

Smells like entrepreneurial spirit

The inhabitants of PS Programmes Towers have had entrepreneurship and freelancing on their minds of late: Tom has been to the National Freelancers Day event at LSO St Luke’s, and Ian has been talking about the ups, downs and sideways of being a freelance writer to...
WEA Awards 2014

WEA Awards 2014

R H Tawney: The WEA’s business ‘…is not to organise classes for whom, in the circumstances of today, it may for one reason or another be easiest to attract. It is to create a demand for education in individuals and bodies who at the moment may be unconscious of...
Out of the shadows: Monica Lewinsky speaks

Out of the shadows: Monica Lewinsky speaks

Monica Lewinsky’s speech to the Forbes Under 30 Conference this week coincided with a trip by Ian Hawkins, one of the PS Programmes team to New York City. Lewinsky, even today, is something of an enigma. A public figure – who hasn’t spoken in public for over a decade....