Imagine the fairy tale, the one with the young bored shepherd races into town day after day crying wolf. Day after day, until finally there is a wolf – and he, along with his herd, fall afoul. It’s a story with a famous message for all children, but it has another overlooked message. […]
The Drum Another PR luminary Mark Borkowski said that despite disagreeing with his politics he “blazed a trail” during his career in advertising and communications. Read full article here: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/08/26/no-one-can-question-his-greatness-bell-pottinger-co-founder-lord-tim-bell-dies
CBC “This story is going to run and run,” British PR expert Mark Borkowski said in an interview last week. “It’s one of those conspiracy-type stories that carry on for years and years and years.” That potential to “run and run” lies in the many unknowns that surround the Epstein case and Andrew’s own character. […]
Jessica Mulroney, perhaps the closest and most loyal of Meghan Markle’s inner circle has posted to Instagram citing racist bullies as behind the criticism of her friend. Sorry, but this is an example of the inner circle clutching at straws. It’s the Sussexes insistence on a version of privacy in an age of absolute scrutiny, […]
The Express PR guru Mark Borkowski said last night: “It doesn’t look good. When things like this occur, it seems highly hypocritical. “They should look to Greta Thunberg. She is clearly more astute about public image than this couple of A-listers seem to be. “It just takes some common sense and their PR advisers should […]
The Edinburgh Fringe is noisy. No, not the plaintiff wheezy whine of the devil’s bellows. I’m overwhelmed by the nauseous pollution; the brash posters littering the streets. Gaudy graphics constructed to hypnotise one’s peripheral vision. Loud marketing. Dumb ubiquity. Hopeless strategy to attract an audience. On the last count, walking a 400 yard stretch (imperial […]
On April 7th, 1994, late at night, in a long-since rebranded Glaswegian hotel, a tape was recorded of two brothers that would launch the beginning one of the longest running and most entertaining rock n roll feuds of all time. The Wibbling Rivalry tapes, a drunken argument between the crown princes of rock n roll […]
It took half a century for us to work out that smoking had certain negative qualities, and it took another twenty years for the legislators to do something about it. Big Tobacco was a formidable opponent to change for several reasons. Yes, it was massively lucrative, provided thousands of jobs and sold an aspirational product […]