Monday, February 21st, 2011
This Friday, I’ll hit 40. As we know from countless weekend supplements, the big four zero is one of those milestones when people traditionally reassess their life. Very often, they see the light, ditch their job and plump to do something entirely different. And so, as I bid farewell to ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, PR consultant Adam Clyne, a Mancunian who has relocated to London, posted a provocative blog questioning whether we in Manchester can ever really compete with our southern counterparts.
At the time, my take on the matter – cited in the blog – was that the whole Manchester ...
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
This week, alarmed bosses at the Leeds Building Society drafted in the services of a former English teacher to give their staff grammar lessons. Senior staff at the building society were so appalled at their employees’ low standard of written English that they decided to take staff back to school.
An admirable move ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
I won’t lie. Despite our best laid plans, the award entries were a bloody nightmare to get off in the post. The whole hoopla culminated in our lovely office manager, Rachel, having a meltdown moment in Hale post office and being comforted by total strangers. Anyway, all merrily forgotten today ...
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