Public Relations

So, Sir Steve, what made you get back in the boat?

It’s not every day that you get to meet one of your sporting heroes. My chance came yesterday when I met the Olympic legend, Sir Steve Redgrave. I’ve been fortunate in my public relations career to have met and worked with a lot of interesting business figures. I’ve even chaired press conferences for James Caan …

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General Reflection – which party has won voters’ hearts and minds?

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 …

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United Airlines – don’t come fly with me!

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 …

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There’s no such thing as bad PR…really?

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 …

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Beckileaks – can brand Beckham bounce back?

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 …

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Fake news – how to tell if they’re faking it

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 …

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