Event/Announcement of the Week

04.27.12 Posted in Blog by Isobel Bradshaw

It’s been a pretty busy week, all in all, for events and announcements. A disgruntled wannabe HGV driver brought the West End to a standstill; a famous ex-drug addict told Parliament to be nicer to drug addicts; and the wheels well and truly came off the Government’s ‘fightback’. The fightback started wobbling on Tuesday, when [...]


Geeks Corner: Don’t be a Klouchebag

04.27.12 Posted in Blog by Andy May

Those of you who are au fait with social media will have heard about the various free ‘online influence’ measurement tools out there. Klout, Peerindex and Kred are the best known. If you are less than impressed with services that encourage social media obsessives to spend yet more time on twitter then Klouchebag is for [...]


Media trainee of the week: John Terry

04.26.12 Posted in Blog by Nicolas Lehmann

Following his sending off for thrusting his knee into an opponent’s back in the 37th minute of his team’s Champions’ League semi-final second leg tie with Barcelona, it would have been difficult to imagine Chelsea captain John Terry emerging from the night with any credit. However, his post-match interview with Sky Sports’ Geoff Shreeves was a textbook [...]


PMQs – Is Ed the new Chris Iwelumo?

04.25.12 Posted in Blog by Andrew Hobson

The problem with being gifted an open goal is that people tend to remember when you miss, rather than when you score. For that reason Ed Miliband may regret allowing David Cameron off the hook at PMQs today. He spent too little time attacking the Government’s economic record before he moved on to the relationship [...]


When Clicktivism Goes Right

04.24.12 Posted in Blog by Isobel Bradshaw

Obviously here at Open Road Towers we followed last weekend’s London Marathon rather closely, as our own Martin Le Jeune completed the course in a personal best time of 4 hours 8 minutes. Sadly, not everyone managed to finish, and there has been a flood of tributes to Claire Squires who died just a mile [...]