As Jamie Carragher is now painfully aware – ‘Believe in better’ is Sky’s slogan. It has served them well, especially with the creation of the best punditry partnership on TV, Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville. The former foes, legends for their rival clubs, Liverpool and Manchester United respectively, have forged a fantastic partnership based on …
This is the front page of my client’s local newspaper this morning. Talk about return on investment for PR! It features a story we have worked on for over a month, getting quotes from supporting parties and stakeholders, positioning my client at the heart of the deal and essentially telling their market that if you …
‘it started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle and the less said about the end the better — but apart from that it was excellent’ Not the words of the watching media, party members and viewers of Theresa May’s speech but one Captain Blackadder’s scathing appraisal of Private Baldrick’s attempt at poetry. …
X Factor auditions, the return of Strictly, John Lewis adverts dominating social media…yep, the end of the British summer is right on schedule. Only this time, it seems we’re not cooing over Buster the Boxer, the Man on the Moon or Monty the penguin, this time, we’re worrying about labelling, and we all know that’s …
John Lewis – won’t somebody think of the children? Read More »
Or should that question be which person has won hearts and minds? Now more than ever, politics is about the people behind the policy and by that, I don’t mean the voters, I mean the leaders. For many of the people stood at the polling booths today, the names on the ballot paper will be …
General Reflection – which party has won voters’ hearts and minds? Read More »
A guest blog from our consumer PR expert Lucy Capaldo on this PR crisis. It started badly, trailed off in the middle and the less that can be said about the end… This week United Airlines has been globally vilified after aviation police officials violently removed a man from a plane at Chicago O’Hare international airport …
Here’s a lazy comment that comes up in casual conversation with alarming regularity… “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”. Really? That is perhaps the laziest and dangerous PR “advice” I’ve ever heard. Consider #PieGate – the story that muddied the “magic of the FA Cup” and derailed the wheels of good faith that had …
Not the long lost manuscript for the next Harry Potter book but a debate I was invited to join on BBC Radio Nottingham this weekend. It came about after local author Beth Moran wrote a really interesting piece about being invited to “pimp” her coffee at a family restaurant. NB: not a Prince lyric. I was invited …
By now, you have probably heard about the latest celebrity email hack, this time of the beloved Becks. I’m a massive football fan and also a fan of David Beckham as a sportsman and role model but there is no doubt that this will raise more than a few Beckham-esque eyebrows amongst football fans and …
It emerged in 2016 and will be the buzzword in media circles throughout the year – “fake news”. President Donald Trump even accused a respected CNN journalist of being “fake news” midway through a press conference. It is obviously a cause for concern. This week, MPs launched a parliamentary inquiry into the “growing phenomenon”, with …