It has been a good week for nostalgia fans. As well as the look back on the life and times of Margaret Thatcher,  we have been treated to the reported return of Blairite/Brownite splits within the Labour party. It may disappoint you to hear that, in fact, there is no such thing happening…for the moment. Though it [...]

I enjoy my occasional jaunts across the Channel. Of course, they provide the opportunity for some R&R and to over-indulge in cheese and patisseries. But they also allow me to compare and contrast French politics with our own, and to bring back a few lessons together with the obligatory pack of Kronenbourg 1664.   So, based on my excursion last week, [...]

Stavros is no Conservative, but the Conservatives’ attempts to broaden their electoral appeal remain a subject of particular fascination. This is an unusually live issue at the moment, with the rumblings about David Cameron’s leadership the loudest they have been since, well, ever. Benedict Brogan has a useful update on the status of the alleged leadership [...]

Flicking through a recent edition of PR Week, I stumbled across a photograph of Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins launching the Blackberry 10. And it led me to wonder what companies such as RIM and others – Sony did the same this week when launching the PlayStation 4 – think they stand to gain from fielding a (generally tie-less) CEO to [...]

Early yesterday afternoon, the Labour MP Toby Perkins tweeted “Tory SPAD told me that purpose of #EqualMarriage was to make Tories look normal rational nice people. That worked well”. Of course, the Special Adviser had hit the nail on the head. This issue is all about political positioning and less about the unlikely resurgence of [...]