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 [...]
When Clicktivism Goes Right
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 [...]
Getting your own back
As a freelance crisis communications consultant, what better showcase for your skills than to diffuse your own personal media crisis and then blog about it? On Friday afternoon, the Sunday Times Insight team emailed Ed Staite, a former Conservative party adviser, to tell him that he would be featuring prominently in the follow up to [...]
Let them eat Greggs!
There can only be one announcement this week that truly deserves to be trumpeted on this mightiest of media/political blogs. Of course, I’m talking about the fact that our Prime Minister, our primus inter pares, once had a Cornish pasty. In Leeds station. So important is this news, so important is it to ensure that the records are accurate, that [...]
Article of the week
Well, what was obviously the best article of the week has already been covered by Top Cat, so instead I’ve gone for a different angle. There is a lot of interest in weddings and marriages at the moment (especially in Open Road Towers, as we’ve got two to look forward to this summer), with passionate [...]
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