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 …
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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 up to date on all things Wiki, Wikipedia forbids users from …
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 …
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“Divisive” – understatement of the yearI’m not interested in debating the politics and the former PM but I have found it fascinating to see how many people genuinely do seem bothered by politics when the really BIG news happens. Maybe yesterday’s events will see a lot more people becoming politically active or wearing their political …
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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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I do a bit for charity (don’t like to talk about it!) and for the last eon, or 6 months at least, I have been working with a fantastic team on what was an amazing experience and event – #YFactorLeics. It was essentially a “talent” contest fought out between members of the Leicestershire business community …
To many, he is a lovable buffoon in an area that has few fans. Politics. However, will Boris Johnson’s appearance (click here) on the Andrew Marr show yesterday (Sunday 24th March), in which Marr’s replacement, Eddie Mair, cornered him on issues that would appear to fly in the face of his public profile, soon have …
Those words will forever rattle around in my mind, legs, back and everywhere else in my bruised and battered carcass as I attempt this ludicrous challenge in April. I’m not a natural marathon runner (as you may know) so I really need your help please. It doesn’t have to be monetary, although I am running …
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 …
Last year, I was asked if I would sit on a bus for a morning and have lots of strangers talk to me about their ideas to take over the world. Now normally, this would not hold huge appeal. However, this was no ordinary bus and these were no ordinary strangers. It was the first …