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As the political pundits publish their assessments of the Tory leader's first year in office, they were equally turning their attention to assessing the next prime minister's performance this week.
As the festive multi-coloured light displays are switched on and the decorations go up, council PROs must heed the advent of the 'politically correct madness' story season. There is a good chance that PROs could dig themselves, or fall into, a journalist's trap.
The most striking thing about the past 12 months is how the fortunes of the PR industry and the media have gone in opposite directions.
How appropriate that a buoyant year for PR consultancies should close with one of the UK's biggest firms bringing in an experienced business leader as CEO.
A recent article in Fortune, the US business magazine, estimated that a typical chief executive of a major US company could expect to spend 40 per cent of his or her time...
When does more disruption mean less disruption? Answer: in the strange, old-fashioned, topsy-turvy world of transport.
David Cameron, approaching the end of his first 12 months as Tory leader, would have got a boost from a poll in last weekend's Mail on Sunday .
As the cash-tills ring to the sound of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money, one thing is certain about the 2012 London Olympics: it is a comms nightmare that will outlive the Games.
Alastair Campbell famously told a journalist 'we don't do God' when Tony Blair was asked about his Christianity. British Airways' PR professionals surely wish they were able to deploy a similar response on the increasingly powderkeg issue of faith in the past few days.
The Queen's Speech may seem dated these days, but it represents the greatest forward-planning tool for local-authority PROs.
