Archive for December, 2016
How should the consumer voice be heard in company policymaking?
December 7th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
In her campaign to become leader of the Conservative Party and in her time as Prime Minister, Theresa May has talked of consumers and workers being on company boards and there is currently a Government consultation on corporate governance that looks tentatively at this subject. The consumer organisation Citizens Advice invited me to do a […]
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Nine days in Washington DC and area
December 6th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
If you’re a regular visitor to NightHawk, you may have read recently a series of 10 blog postings on my trip to the USA to celebrate Thanksgiving and to see friends and tourist attractions. I have now knitted these postings into a single narrative and added various hyperlinks. Of course, you might not have read […]
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Delighted to hand over my role at South East Water to Zoe McLeod
December 5th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
For the past five years, I’ve had a consumer champion role at South East Water. For three years, I chaired the Customer Challenge Group which worked with the company on its business plan for the Price Review period 2015-2020. For the next two years, I chaired the Customer Panel which monitored how the company performed […]
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Should we hold Donald Trump to his promises? All 282 of them!
December 1st, 2016 by Roger Darlington
In the course of the long campaign, President-elect Donald Trump made an astonishing number of promises – some very specific, other terrible vague; some quite positive, but many utterly fanciful. Writing for the “Washington Post”, Jenna Johnson has compiled a list of 282 Trump promises. In the interests of political accountability, the Democratic Party, the […]
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