The furore over British Lions coach Warren Gatland’s controversial decision to drop Irish and British Lions legend Brian O’Driscroll has opened up questions of quotas, xenophobia and a win-at-all-costs mentality. It takes me back (believe it or not) to a day in the lower sixth at school when the head of our house (nothing fancy, …
Gatland, BOD and inter-house badminton as Welsh get Lion’s share Read More »
Well, this is a pickle. Poor old Lord Hall has only been Director General of the BBC for a week or so and he’s already faced with a major issue. With “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” riding high in the charts following a very successful facebook campaign by anti-Thatcher protesters (it already tops the …
Ding Dong – let battle commence over BBC playing THAT song Read More »
MP Chuka Umunna: caught editing Wikipedia page (Credit: Getty Images) Thanks to Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith from PR Week for much of this content. Labour MP Chuka Umunna is in the firing line after failing to deny that one of his team likened him to Barack Obama on Wikipedia, under the pseudonym ‘Socialdemocrat’. In case you aren’t …
You could see this coming really. Further to yesterday’s blog (but not as a result I must add!) Paris Brown is stepping down from her role in the wake of the twitter row which has engulfed her and the commission. More on that here Some of the statement from Paris: ” I accept that I …
Update – a Brown Mark against the Youth Police & Crime Commissioner role Read More »
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 …
A funny old day today. I have spent over a decade advising clients on how to get the most out of their PR campaigns and here I find myself doing it for Press For Attention PR, my own consultancy. Strange it may be. Self indulgent? It feels like it a little, I must confess. However, …
Strange to write a press release about your own business when you are in PR Read More »
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 …
Are the Transport and border staff strikes and the Dairy protest udderly ill-conceived ? Read More »
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 …
G4S – “Buckles” under the strain of Olympic effort Read More »
“Right, I’m gonna try this and it’s not gonna be easy.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvwd_I9arMU] Not beating the legendary Roger Federer. Not speaking to a crowd that was ready to acclaim their new hero. No, he isn’t there yet – that is still probably Roger, even today. What wasn’t easy for Andy was fighting back the pent up …
Cartoon by emraharikan – see more here Here’s a scenario I have seen unfold in front of me with many a regional and local business journalist – in fact, it happened twice in the space of 2 hours this week so I thought I’d blog about it today…note that it happened as I sat catching up …
Local v National PR agencies – is bigger always better? Read More »