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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

Solicitors on the whole are very clever people. They are well-educated, possess vocabularies leaving the average man scrambling for a dictionary, and when making a point give detailed explanations. However, whilst these sound like attributes they are also a major reason why many of them are...

30 April, 2013

The power of social media and the weakness of the traditional outlets of PR have been illustrated in some style this past week by the controversy surrounding the death of Margaret Thatcher. Unless you have been on Mars, you will be aware of the attempts to...

19 April, 2013

As I write this it is only a few hours after the news of the passing of Margaret Thatcher broke and already this event has divided the country like it is the mid 1980s again. On the BBC they have wheeled out every political ally and...

08 April, 2013