Monthly Archives: October 2023

Comms Camp Scotland

I’d never been to an unconference before, so I was a little bit unsure of what I should expect when I went along to Comms Camp Scotland last week. These Comms Camp events have been running south of the border for a decade or so now, but the Glasgow unconference last Thursday was the first […]

Happy Birthday to Local Commercial Radio

This month mark the 50th anniversary of Independent Local Radio in the UK. Up until 1973 the only radio stations you could listen to were the four national BBC stations and, depending on where you lived, a local BBC station. That was it. Radio One, the only station playing chart music, went off air at […]

Firhill Fiasco – Part Two

Just over a year ago I posted a blog titled Firhill Fiasco in which I moaned about how Partick Thistle, my football team, had badly handled the conversion of the club to a fan ownership model. What ought to have been a positive news story was instead a communications train wreck. For a while it […]