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Jan 12, 2025 | 
record-eagle.com | Rob Ford
I read somewhere recently that the second Friday of January is unofficially some sort of “break your New Year Resolution” day. Like I said, it’s unofficial and whenever anyone tells you that “I read somewhere,” proceed with caution. So, cautiously, I wish you all Happy New Year and, as for those resolutions that I hope you still are keeping, I offer a page of advice. Let me start by offering this — early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and moisturize. The days are getting longer, bit by bit.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
securities.io | Rob Ford
The FinTech landscape in 2025 promises to be a battleground of innovation, consolidation, and fierce competition. Emerging technologies, evolving consumer behaviors, and regulatory shifts will reshape the sector, with FinTech PR and financial services marketing playing a pivotal role in shaping perceptions and driving growth.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
manchester.ac.uk | David Gadd |Hilary Pilkington |Rob Ford |Peter Knight
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The University of Manchester hosted a panel discussion comprised of academics and politicians to explore the causes and impact of the civil unrest that gripped swathes of UK towns and cities during the summer of 2024.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
swingometer.substack.com | Rob Ford
A few weeks ago, I set out how British politics has evolved over the past six decades or so from this…. To this…. I’ve labelled our new political landscape “electoral chaos theory” - like the complex systems of chaos theory this is not a landscape pure randomness, but one built on more complex and unpredictable patterns of competition driven by fragmentation across more parties, all with fortunes which vary across different kinds of seats.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Rob Ford
My wife loves to talk to strangers. When we are on vacation, I can be comfortably parked in a poolside lawn chair gathering more than my fair share of sunshine and suddenly get a sense that something is missing. That’s when I’ll look around and see her engrossed in a conversation with someone that I know she’s never met. Quite often it’s more than one “someone” or on various occasions an entire group of strangers.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
record-eagle.com | Rob Ford
My wife loves to talk to strangers. When we are on vacation, I can be comfortably parked in a poolside lawn chair gathering more than my fair share of sunshine and suddenly get a sense that something is missing. That’s when I’ll look around and see her engrossed in a conversation with someone that I know she’s never met. Quite often it’s more than one “someone” or on various occasions an entire group of strangers.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
record-eagle.com | Rob Ford
This column is going to be epic. No it won’t. This column may be plenty of things. Hopefully it will be interesting, worth the time it takes to be read, perhaps a little humorous. But it cannot be … epic. My last column debuted the phrase “now that I got that booger off my finger”, which I thought was descriptive and colorful.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
swingometer.substack.com | Rob Ford
As we all digest last night’s shock result from the United States, where a massive red wave has swept Donald Trump back into the White House, here is a special guest from veteran campaign professional, data shed manager and longstanding friend of the Swingometer, Ian Warren. In a two decade career working with campaigns across the world Ian has forgotten more about life at the front line of politics than most people ever learn. Here are his thoughts on what just happen in America.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
record-eagle.com | Rob Ford
Since 2010 a handful of friends and I have managed to operate a small Community Theater group known as The Elk Rapids Players. If you’ve never heard of us, we do a couple of shows a year at the Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall and the proceeds from our shows support the operating and maintenance of that beautiful old building known as HERTHA. To date our efforts have raised nearly $100,000.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
swingometer.substack.com | Rob Ford
Yesterday was an unwanted milestone for the new Labour government, as BMG published the first poll to show them trailing the Conservative opposition, albeit by a narrow 29-28 margin in a fragmented field. Labour led the Tories in opposition for two and a half years, their lead in government has lasted less than four months. Some honeymoon. Labour advisors who have grown used to commanding poll leads in opposition can take some comfort from history. The swift Starmer slump is not unusual.
