Fishburn Hedges

02.12.2011

This week we saw George Osborne come out with his eagerly anticipated Autumn Statement. If you didn’t get a chance to review it, take a look at FH’s quick-fire blog of the Statement in in 10 tweets. The Guardian identified the winners and losers but it seems the group with the biggest grievances this week were public sector workers. The #N30 protesters were out in full force on Wednesday, walking past FH’s offices, although it’s interesting to note that many retailers noticed a sharp increase in sales that day too – the level they’d usually expect the final day before Christmas.

We do like a good march in the UK and we also like a bit of controversy. Who better than ‘engine-head’ Jeremy Clarkson to cause social media outcry when he suggested that public workers who were protesting ought to be shot and executed in front of their families for taking industrial action over reforms to their pensions. As Brand Republic suggests, Clarkson’s book publishers may be enjoying the attention but the BBC is now in a tough position deciding whether to sack the marmite star of Top Gear, even though a poll by The Telegraph shows that three-quarters of readers actually back his comments!

The biggest statement made this week, however, was by the people of Twitter and Facebook, who were so disgusted with a woman’s racist rant on a train that she eventually got arrested. See the uncensored viral video here on The Week but be warned, it may make your blood boil!

Finally, as we’re talking ‘making a statement’, you may have seen that Haymarket was overtaken by the N30 protestors this week - similar to how the Millbank Tower was stormed by students a few months ago – and on Monday, Nokia took marketing to a whole new level by projecting 3D images onto the face of the building, while having Deadmau5 (pronounced ‘dead mouse’) DJ from the 1^st floor. Pretty awesome, check it out here.