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"Appalling' is not normally the judgement I am looking for - Press for Attention PR
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“Appalling’ Is Not Normally The Judgement I Am Looking For

“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

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PR Tips & Tricks

Caution….here be Dragons or not…

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

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What’s in a name? Not a press story….wll, nrmlly anywy

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

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PR Guru launches high-tech assistant in major Ai move

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

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Murdoch, Morgan, the Media and Me - Greg and Piers Morgan
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Piers Morgan was right

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

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Don’t make offers worth sweet FA

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

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I am not a YES Man
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Despite working in PR, I am not a “YES” man

  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

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