The story that won’t go away

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

The allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have been dubbed “one of the biggest scandals affecting the press in living memory”. Instead of making the news and then quickly fading away, this story is gaining more and more momentum, with new twists and turns being reported ...

Councils turn their back on social media

Monday, March 7th, 2011

It was only two years ago when David Cameron said he wasn’t on Twitter because he thought too many tweets “might make a twat”. How things have changed. Westminster has moved with the times and embraced a variety of social media platforms, with Number 10 now having its own pages ...

Want to work in PR? That’ll be £2,000

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Hot on the heels of a recent exposé into unpaid PR internships, it appears the Conservatives have now stepped in to fuel the debate. At a sensitive time for the PR industry, the Tories have come under fire for auctioning internships to privileged supporters. According to the Mail, a one-week internship ...

College-room project that turned into a global phenomenon – Facebook hits the 500 million users mark

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Facebook announced that it now has 500 million users which means (according to The Guardian) that a whopping 43 per cent of Brits are regularly logging on. You can’t argue with that! We all remember Rage Against the Machine beating X-Factor’s latest hopeful (it was that Joe guy, right?) to the ...

An election to remember…

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

I left work last night and Parliament was well and truly hung; by the time I got home, a new PM was courting the Queen. They're funny times that we live in. For me, this election has been the busiest, most relevant and most divisive that I've lived through. Facebook status were ...