Politics

A Brown mark against the Youth Police and Crime Commissioner role?

Britain’s first youth police and crime commissioner has made a tearful apology for what she accepts was “inappropriate language and views” that she posted on Twitter. Paris Brown, 17, from Sheerness in Kent, made comments about gay people and drugs, which have since been deleted. Whilst Brown has been pilloried for her views, one does …

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Storm brewing for coffee giants Starbucks

You can almost hear the shrieks over the double-skinny, tall, smooth, flytothemoonandletmeplayamongthestars mocha-lattes: “The customers are revolting, the customers are revolting!” Whatever you make of Starbucks’ totally legal methods of not paying any corporation tax and its seeming inability to make a profit on one  of the highest margin products in the world (up their …

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Are the Transport and border staff strikes and the Dairy protest udderly ill-conceived ?

Firstly, this is not a political blog. It merely serves to highlight where I believe PR is an issue. Two pieces of protest/industrial action in 2 days. Both with legitimate concerns and with a right to do what they are doing. However, already this morning on the radio I have heard more sympathy for the …

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G4S – “Buckles” under the strain of Olympic effort

In terms of how not to handle the press, this is an object lesson. Your company is in panic mode, days away from a huge event. The media is swarming all over you. You want to hide, bury your head in the sand. That’s understandable – we’re all human. Problem is…we’re not all the CEO …

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Assad regime not quite so in Vogue now eh?

NB – credit to the Independent’s Richard Hall for the analysis and article below (in italics). I have written on this subject before, just where do you the draw the line when it comes to ethics in business? Could you work for an oil firm, a major bank, a “corrupt” regime? Whatever your politics, morals …

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PR support for Gaddafi? Tanks but no tanks!

Scanning the web this morning for blogging fodder, I learnt that some big, shiny London PR agencies received a curious email last month, purporting to be from Libya’s Ministry of Information. Turns out this mysterious ministry was asking for PR support to improve the image of Muammar Gaddafi.  Many dismissed it as the work of …

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