Author: mike

Recently a BBC poll showed the Germans to be the most admired nation on the planet. Last night’s Make Me a German on BBC2 will only have cemented that notion amongst us, one of its greatest foes. It was an hour long programme where a husband and...

07 August, 2013

David Cameron is looking at porn, purely for research purposes of course. Ok, we can all smile and talk in a nudge nudge wink wink way about his plans to block sexual content from us unless we opt in, but his announcement today will certainly start...

22 July, 2013

Shops have sold out of barbecues, and paddling pool sales are up 800 per cent on last year, and meanwhile the local A and Es are treating gazillions for sunburn and heat exhaustion. No doubt these are some of the headlines you have been reading about...

16 July, 2013

If we are all to be honest social media is still so much in its infancy that only in a decade or so we will have the perspective to really work out what was going on at this time. However, one thing for sure is the...

11 July, 2013

There’s no such thing as bad publicity unless it’s your obituary said Irish playwright Brendan Behan. However, former ‘The Apprentice’ contestant Katie Hopkins is the latest to prove this isn’t always the case. For those of you who haven’t yet seen the viral sensation of her interview...

05 July, 2013

Apparently, less than half of the public trust lawyers to tell the truth. Last week the results of a YouGov survey of 1,702 adults found that just 42% trust lawyers to tell the truth, down from 47% in 2011. So is this lack of public confidence is...

01 July, 2013

What do you get if you mix the Woolwich murder, Public Relations and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) together? In my case it’s a story, which has seen thousands of new visitors to my website this week, and has proven a point long held by me, which...

05 June, 2013

Holding a meat cleaver in one of his blood soaked hands, Michael Adeloboja set a media precedent yesterday afternoon. He officially became the UK’s first celebrity murderer. Never before in our culture had a killer fresh from slaying a victim used the media to publicise his agenda,...

23 May, 2013