Understanding The Protest Movements
There have been at least two great intellectual failures in the last hundred years - the first is Marxism-Leninism and the second has been the liberal rejection of some of the central insights of the Marxists.
Class But Not As We Know It, Jim
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In Praise of Mr. Seddon …
I recently got hold of a copy of a new memoir by Mark Seddon, former Editor of Tribune, past elected member of New Labour's National Executive Committee, UN correspondent for Al-Jazeera and now back in London as Director of the People's Pledge.
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Exaro – New Fleet-Street Based Investigative Web Site
Field trials have now started for Exaro, the new investigative website edited by Mark Watts and financed according to a business plan developed by figures experienced in the media and the City.
The founders are making no secret of the risks involved b...
Practical Thinking, Panic & The Riots
The marketing industry has been caught out. Young males respond to messages of defiance and individualism but, when they act out the fantasy presented to them on a plate by clothes and shoes manufacturers to sell their products, we suddenly have a...
Libya – Pride & Prejudice
A few weeks ago, London PR agencies were stunned to get an anonymous e-mail from what purported to be the Libyan Government requesting PR support in the current crisis.
It turned out that it was genuine but what is more interesting than the sudden and...
While We Have Been Away …
If you followed our frequent blog postings in the past, you may have noticed that postings stopped in December 2010 with what amounted to an advertisement for the website of our sister company PendryWhite. We have let this stand for some eight months.
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New PendryWhite Website
PendryWhite's website launched today makes traditional public relations a less important part of its business. Yes, it still does media relations and it has an excellent side line in press and web office management for the HNWI...
Russian Manoeuvres In The Dark
There has been a long gap in postings mostly from pressure of work - which is good in these economically uncertain times - but also because there has been little to say that would have added value during a strange phony period in British...
Developing Countries and Regional Collaboration
We were recently interviewed by Ratio Magazine, an online journal which specialises in providing business analyses related to East Africa.
The subject was an interesting one - the use of branding consultants for the promotion of emergin...
Africa in 2010
We are not African specialists. If we want information about political risk South of the Sahara or in the Horn of Africa, we will turn to one of our clients, Pasco Risk Management, based in South Africa, or perhaps to a political contact or two of...
