This might sound like a joke (and increasingly look like one) but in terms of the “optics” of this lurking election, it is far from funny for Rishi and the Tories. I’ve been to Number 10. It actually isn’t THAT glamorous behind that famous door. If anything, it feels a little like a hotel lobby that …
“Appalling’ is not normally the judgement I am looking for However, there it was as i scanned my emails this morning. I’m not going to lie, I felt queasy. My client has worked with me for nearly a year now and we’ve had some BIG wins including three pieces on Martin Lewis’s “Money Saving Expert” website and believe me, …
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Spoiler alert – this is NOT about “Co-op Live” but cooperation might well save this venue. (whispering)… “Well, good evening, You join us here in the 8th frame of the evening, with the match poised upon a knife edge that could have been forged in the fires of this proud city.” Go on, name the …
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As I began to write this, over 75,000 people had signed a petition calling for St George’s Day to be a Bank Holiday. This is as reported by The Daily Express, which is interesting to me as a PR man and former journo. In fact, I have just posted a poll on Linkedin asking the same question …
Towards the end of 2023 I received a message via a network that spans the globe. A personal invitation to a select event where certain…secrets would be shared. It felt clandestine, at least in my fertile mind because I’d been contacted by the FSB. To some, those initials conjure nothing but to a massive James …
Branding Brilliance in business – storytelling and Publicity vs Public Relations Read More »
Unless…it amounts to “corporate bullying”… There are very few queries from business owners that I struggle to find a press angle on but there is one that seems to surface a lot and 9/10 is NOT a story: “Once upon a time, there was a business. One night, a fairy godmother rebranded it with a …
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Greg Simpson, the Nottingham-based PR behemoth and former business journalist, who really should know better than to issue a story on a Bank Holiday, has announced his latest innovation. According to Simpson’s missive, which was announced via a cloud of hot air, smoke and mirrors, “Pepe” will “transform the way writers of press content approach …
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A couple of years back, I stood on the opposite side of some perspex glass from one of the world’s most notorious offenders. He has offended most people and often, common decency. It might even offend you that I’m writing this! I was on stage just after the pandemic in a slot right before Piers, …
As the final whistle blew, I let out a huge sigh of relief. Not euphoria. I’ve followed Manchester United for 36 years now. I remember the first goal that made me feel triumphant, it was Gordon Strachan bursting through against Liverpool in 1988. Our arch rivals to this day, whatever City might think! Why relief? …
Trigger warning, contains references to Megan Markle… There’s a funny little book I read years ago that for a while, got me into all sorts of scrapes. Nothing serious, in fact, most of them were very positive indeed actually. It is called “The Yes Man” and is by a British comedian named Danny Wallace …