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Our review of 2008 in this issue reminds us of the volatile, even febrile, times in which we live.
With a diminishing opinion poll lead, David Cameron must be wondering whether this has been a good year or not. Only 15 months ago his failure to burst the Brown bubble led to internal machinations against his leadership - and he knows Tories are only loyal when they smell success.
A large and inconvenient cat was recently let out of the Olympic bag and it is already challenging those charged with communicating the benefits of London 2012. Basically it seems that those benefits are either greatly exaggerated or non-existent.
The collapse of the long-running attempt by the world's largest mining group, BHP, to buy the third largest, Rio Tinto, brought the curtain down on a deal that would have been the second largest takeover in history.
Paul Marston's statement, (Media, 26 November) that British Airways was approached at a late stage for a response to allegations is incorrect.
As journalists and PR trainers we were pleased to see your feature on the value of training (Features, 28 November). In our experience, training commitment varies hugely from company to company.
With dismay, I agree with Danny Rogers' comments on organisations deliberately keeping comms people away from CSR policy (Opinion, 28 November).
At the Reputation and Leadership Conference at Henley Business School last week, there seemed common agreement that the 'S' for social is probably now redundant and we should just refer to the issue as corporate responsibility.
Can the Christmas message ever have been more confusing for comms or consumers? Most have long accepted the supplanting of the Nativity story by the dictates of a modern consumerist ideology urging endless seasonal spending.
The PR jobs market has changed dramatically over the past 18 months. In the middle of 2007, most senior comms professionals were confiding that their two biggest management issues were retaining good staff and spiralling salary inflation.
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