What better way to return to the blogosphere than on the back of this classic piece of pomp rock from Whitesnake (and by the way a special nod to the friend who suggested ‘Hello, Hello I’m back again’ (by convicted paedophile Gary Glitter)…I make my living advising people not to fall into precisely that kind of [...]
Archive for the ‘Public Relations’ Category
Here I go again…
Posted in Economy, Markets, Public Relations, tagged Abu Dhabi, Al Ittihad, Khaleej Times, Public Relations, Sovereign Wealth Funds, The National. Gulf news, WAM on 16 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Money (that’s what I want)…
Posted in Banking, Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Hedge Funds, Media, Public Relations, tagged Banking, Edelman, Mortgage rates on 7 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since the Bank of England reduced its base lending rate to an historically low 2% on Thursday UK media commentary has been dominated by a ‘will they, won’t they’ analysis of which banks are planning to pass on the full value of the 1% cut to their mortgage customers and which are not. At the [...]
Do You Know Where You’re Going To…..
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Politics, Public Relations, tagged British Chambers of Commerce, David Frost, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, John Waples, Liberal Democrats, Sunday Times, Vince Cable on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
OK – first some self-justification. I realise that this song doesn’t exactly enhance my credentials as the wild man of PR. Unfortunately it’s the most appropriate one I could come up with in what is a necessarily short space of time and, having set out the parameters for titles myself – most importantly that they [...]
Heaven knows I’m miserable now…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Alitalia, BA, Economy, Recession, The Smiths on 28 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A week that began with a lukewarm reception for the fiscal stimulus package contained in Alistair Darling’s pre-budget report seems set to end with our beaten and battered economy no closer to getting itself up off the canvas. In London today more than 30 stores have staged special 7am openings in an attempt to ensure [...]
Cars
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Cars, Detroit, Gary Numan, Richard Edelman on 19 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On one level, the current debate over the fate of the Big 3 Detroit car companies – and specifically whether the US Government should extend a further $25bn of public money to help the industry weather its own current financial crisis – puts me in mind of the “what have the Roman’s ever done for [...]
Suspicious minds…
Posted in Banking, Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Cedric Brown, Clinton Manning, Daily Mirror, HBoS, News of the World, Public Relations, Sunday Mail on 10 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is no situation so bad that can’t be made even worse with a “lavish staff blowout” as yesterday’s News of the World front page story about HBoS’s Annual Star Gala event, which took place in Edinburgh last week, and the Sunday Mail’s exclusive about the bank’s planned December event in Birmingham for 1,500 mortgage [...]
