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For many people Tony Blair's third election victory will have been the political event of 2005. But for me the year's most significant moment was the speech I heard in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, a few months later.
According to the hacks in the Westminster village, the Government's pensions strategy has been a PR disaster. No wonder they are so often called 'village idiots' by those working in the real world.
We have all heard the saying 'a good day to bury bad news', but last week saw the first good day to bury good news. Gordon Brown 'launched' the 2018 English World Cup bid just as the best economic news of the year broke. This might seem like a monumental blunder, but do not be fooled.
How will we remember this 24 November, the day the 11pm curfew was relaxed on pubs serving alcohol? 'D-Day', as the British Beer and Pub Association's Mark Hastings describes it, should have been a cause for quiet satisfaction - the sign of a mature society treating its citizens as adults, granted the...
Campaign: The Smoke Alarm Client: The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation PR team: Weber Shandwick Timescale: June-July 2005 Budget: £5,000 After the death of entertainer Roy Castle in 1994 - a non-smoker who developed lung cancer from second-hand smoke - the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation was...
Client: Amicus PR team: The Arnold Group Timescale: August 2005 Budget: Under £20,000 Manufacturing, trade and skilled persons' union Amicus believed the 7 July terrorist attacks in London raised important questions surrounding employee safety and whether firms were prepared for such events. The Arnold...
The latest evidence of declining public trust in official government information was unveiled this week by Mori. Sarah Robertson examines its findings, gauges industry reaction and asks what should be done.
I can usually tell how much of a crisis Tony Blair is in by the number of interview requests I get. In the past few weeks I have been virtually camped out in the local BBC studio.
I was shocked at the extent to which, according to CIPR research, women are underpaid and men under-represented in PR ('PR in numbers - the state of the nation,' 11 November).
I would like to point out to PubAffairs founder Phil Murphy ('PA practitioners call for dedicated body,' 4 November) that the CIPR's Government Affairs Group has more than 600 paying members.
