25 May 2012
| by Luke Blair
of Health and Wellbeing Boards, is a case in point. The idea is that public health formerly managed by NHS ...
things to do like a hole in the head just now. Equally, the NHS is in major reform and so moving yet ...
other and, just as I found three years ago, it is not a collaborative relationship. Where one body ...
24 May 2012
| by Ian Monk
- or any clients - depend on the media to get their message across. Not so much a deal, more a way of life ...
. It was a timely insight into a world where mendacity supplants transparency as the stock ...
, deliberate and otherwise, remains a key function of the Fourth Estate, a free press.
It is for that reason ...
of government comms Jenny Grey - have been caught between a rock and a hard place.
On the one hand Downing ...
behaviour change in many areas of society. And, finding itself in a mid-term slump, urgently needs ...
budgets would be spent in a more strategic and co-ordinated way. In other words, the tap would be turned ...
24 May 2012
| by John Woodcock
gravity: editors no longer prepared to give ministers the benefit of the doubt are simply reflecting a ...
Alexander) must realise they are trapped by the Government's refusal to signal a change of course on imposing a brand of austerity that is demonstrably not working. That is certainly what has happened ...
18 May 2012
| by John Shewell
Local public services are changing fundamentally in a way which could transform their delivery...There are many pressures driving this not least finances, but it presents a clear opportunity ...
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This opportunity could be a game changer for local public service communications. It s about creating and nurturing ...
reference this the Citizenship Survey in 2010 which showed that community cohesion measured as a sense ...
, thanks to a broad geographical and sectoral spread of business.
So while the consumer and technology ...
affairs work from Chime.
It is a tumultuous decision and one that has personally angered Sir Martin Sorrell, the boss of WPP, which has a 20 per cent stake in Chime. Sorrell and Bell, always unlikely ...
17 May 2012
| by Anthony Hilton
with a bigger squeeze on consumer spending and a souring of the mood towards the firm's effort to build a ...
of remorseless growth, one would have thought Tesco had earned the right to be cut a bit of slack ...
executive Justin King got all the praise Tesco missed. Sainsbury's is a fraction of the size of Tesco, so ...
17 May 2012
| by George Eustice
complicated given that anything said has an impact on jittery markets.
The euro was always a bad idea. That it happened at all was a triumph of political belligerence over economic reason. The governments of most EU countries jumped on board simply because they felt fearful of being left behind. Those countries that held a ...
11 May 2012
| by Peter Holt
appeared to have an effect, rather than just those where the higher polling numbers are down to a controversial issue or a particularly spicy fight between candidates. Then there s the near-deafening silence ...
turnout, and a clear nationwide rejection of each city having our own Boris . With only Scotland ...
10 May 2012
| by Ian Monk
Seventy-seven days to go* and the Olympic razzmatazz builds up despite a cacophony of dissenting...Through superb use of new and social media, the Olympic comms team has built up a fan base ...
of missiles stationed on residential roofs to protect a stadium whose legacy remains mired in uncertainty ...
of the Games (a double negative, surely?). The publicists recognise that a predilection for bad news ...