Crisis PR

Surfing the channels last night I stumbled upon this episode of Channel 4's excellent Dispatches series. I was even more intrigued than usual because it...

What a week it has been (so far) for Jeremy Corbyn. Winning the Labour leadership contest by a landslide by effectively NOT playing the PR...

Rugby has a proud repuation for fairness and sportsmanship. Indeed it trumpets this loud over its rival "thuggish" sport soccer. However, what will this scandal do to that hard-won reputation?

Last night, I was fortunate enough to attend the BioCity Annual Lecture, given this year by Professor Molly Stevens of Imperial College London Amongst many accolades,...

This week, the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones spoke to Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executive of Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian firm behind Blackberry. That...

To many, he is a lovable buffoon in an area that has few fans. Politics. However, will Boris Johnson's appearance (click here) on the Andrew...

what the whole event has missed since the potential PR disaster first began to loom on the horizon was a clear communications strategy. Not until the 11th hour, with the intervention of chief minister Sheila Dikshit, has there been a "face" to clarify, cajole and explain the difficult situation.

Right, now I've managed to shoehorn the "less v fewer" issue into a blog on PR, let's have a quick look at the furore...

Before someone says "I told you so" in a week or so's time...this MAY be an elaborate PR stunt. However, if it is...it is very...

There is no doubt that this will have been an awful and incredibly stressful time for Mr Hayward and senior BP figures personally but the problem is that he and BP keep reminding us of us this as if we should all feel sorry for them. That is just not going to fly. Nobody cares about BP - they care about the totaldevastation caused and what can be done about it.