Monthly Archives: June 2019
A Numbers Game
From an early stage in my PR career I’ve been aware of how important numbers can be in getting your message across. One of my favourite textbooks when I was a student was How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff which explains how you make any set of figures support your argument if you […]
Grim Up North
Earlier this month a group of daily newspapers in the North of England, many of them long standing rivals, joined forces in a rare show of unity in order to call for the Tory leadership candidates to pay more attention to the North. The #powerupthenorth campaign is being backed by over thirty publications and wants […]
Who owns the News?
Last week the Media Reform Coalition published their latest report in to who owns the UK media. It is a fascinating and somewhat disturbing read. Four out of every five national newspapers sold in the UK are owned by just three publishers, News UK, Daily Mail General Trust and Reach. There is even more of […]
A Foreign Country
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” That’s the famous opening line from L P Hartley’s classic novel The Go Between. It would seem that Scotland is also a foreign country, at least as far as the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership are concerned. The latest example of this comes […]
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