Given the enormity of the Fifa crisis, one aspect of the story that has gone relatively under-analysed concerns comments by the UK government that it is apparently willing to stage the 2022 World Cup if Qatar is stripped of hosting rights.
One of my firm's newest team members, Beilin Ye, recently gave me for Christmas a gorgeous scroll of the 36 Chinese Stratagems for Psychological Warfare, thinking that these can come in very handy for the crisis management aspect of our work.
In turn, the organizers -- the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, led by Hope Sullivan Masters -- have subcontracted Aly Z. Ramji from Gamut International to do address the crisis communications aspect of the Summit, complete with offering free trips to Malabo and unfettered access if writers agree to write a "good story" because they "didn't want any bad press".
Since the crisis, almost every aspect of the industry has changed, and there is still more to be done".
It's there that the statistics indicate the effect of the financial crisis - the only aspect of job satisfaction to have fallen since 2004 is job security.
The recent crisis echoed many aspects of the 1907 panic.
Yet until the present crisis, the wider aspects of the hostile environment were rarely contested (except by an honourable minority), but enforced in the rightwing press with a Pavlovian system of shocks and alarms.
A range of issues, including the impact of cuts, the cost of living crisis, hostility to aspects of the European Union and a belief that Westminster is a metropolitan elite uninterested in the ordinary man and woman, has fuelled Ukip's advance.
The timing on this, as it happens, works out quite well; the financial sector begins absorbing talent and sucking up outsized returns just as top inequality skyrockets and the housing bubble inflates.The feeling I had while listening to these arguments was that the full story of the crisis incorporated key aspects of these views but was broader than any of them.
