Monthly Archives: February 2020
Storm in a Teacup
Who would have thought that posting a photo of yourself on social media making a cup of tea would cause such an uproar? A few days ago Rishi Sunak (in case you hadn’t noticed, he’s Chancellor of the Exchequer) tweeted a photo of himself making a few mugs of tea for his staff at the […]
Taking Care of Business
Like many people working in PR, I regularly read a number of business magazines. Over the last few years I can’t help but feel that far too many of these general business magazines have become so bland that they have rendered themselves pointless. I am not talking about specialist trade and technical publications which concentrate […]
We asked a Minister but…
“We asked a minister to come onto our programme and explain the Government’s policy. We have been told that no minster is available.” That’s a statement which you will have heard a lot of recently, especially if you regularly listen to Radio 4’s Today programme or watch BBC 2’s Newsnight. What it really means of […]
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye
Well that’s it then, the UK has finally left the European Union. Except that it hasn’t really. Well not yet anyway. We are now in a so called transition period which will last until we finally leave for good at the end of this year. But how did we get here? In the run up […]
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