Just finished Andrew Lownie ‘s Entitled a brilliant, visceral dissection of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson fittingly, on the very day of an unprecedented royal announcement. Andrew stripped of allhis titles and status.The timing couldn’t be juicier. Lownie’s forensic tour through ego, privilege, and decades of embarrassment for the royal brand reads like the missing […]
In the grand theatre of public discourse, we’ve forgotten the weight of a single phrase. Words now drift about as lightly as candyfloss. Take Trump’s latest billing: standing next to Netanyahu and declaring his peace plan the greatest event in civilisation. Quite something, considering the pyramids, the printing press, antibiotics and the Beatles are apparently […]
Of course, I do not forget the lessons etched in the tablets of great PR practice. After all, I’m now a vintage publicist. Few today might recall the great Tylenol meltdown, but as the brand once again faces an existential threat, it’s worth remembering what time forgot.Back in 1982, when America woke to the horror […]
The all-consuming binfire on LinkedIn this week lit by Zoe Scaman centres on Stagwell’s work to help the Israeli government launder its image, sorry win the Hammas war. Well, of course. There’s always someone willing to spray Chanel on a corpse if the cheque is big enough. The oldest alibi in the comms trade is […]
Let me say it aloud: We face a crisis of trust in politics. It’s always the small betrayals that give the game away. Angela Rayner, both Deputy PM and Housing Secretary, allegedly dodging £40k in stamp duty. And a Prime Minister paralysed to act. You couldn’t script a better parable of political decay if you […]
The PR industry bubble loves to talk about itself. Gossip, awards, the next throwaway influencer activation engineered to blip on TikTok for 24 hours before sinking into the feed. Too often, the industry mistakes noise for impact. We live in a silo where the metrics matter more than the meaning.But, history tells us something different. […]
The media can’t get enough of Gen Z’s obsession with analogue. Dumbphones, cassette tapes, and even playlists of gloriously bad ’90s music are trending as if they hold the secret to a better life. It’s everywhere TikTok filters, magazine spreads, curated “Y2K vibes” nostalgia packaged as salvation to an age suffocated by social media.But let’s […]
I’ve spent months journeying back through the archives to explore the power of the stunt, not the limp, performative vanilla stuff we see so often today, but the disruptive acts that carried purpose, planted seeds of change, and rewired the way society thought.In a confused and difficult world, it’s easy to sneer at disruption. But […]
We must ask ourselves: how would the heroic suffragettes or the remarkable Greenham Common women be regarded if active today? The answer is simple: they would be locked up. Just as they were locked up then. A century ago, women chained themselves to railings, set fires, endured prison and changed the world, and we celebrate their victories […]
A TechCrunch post grabbed my attention this week. It covered Elon Musk’s xAI launch of Grok 4. Just when you thought the AI hype cycle couldn’t get more feverish, along comes a chatbot so clever it consults its own maker, Elon Musk, before answering controversial questions. A machine with parental dependency. Imagine your toaster refusing […]