Should taxpayers’ money be spent on saving a failed council’s reputation?

Friday, March 12th, 2010

A story in today’s Daily Mail reported how Birmingham City Council spent £113,000 to draft in ‘PR guru’ Terry Brownbill, his role being to defend its reputation and protect it from criticism and to improve the image of social workers. This measure has been taken after the council’s social services department ...

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Woman describes abortion in graphic detail – is this taking things a tweet too far?

Monday, March 1st, 2010

A story that split opinion in the Peppermint office today was that of  Angie Jackson, a 27-year-old  American woman who made the decision to post the details of her abortion in a bid to ‘demystify’ the topic for other women.  I admit, my initial reaction was ‘how awful!’ and that ...

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