Getting the basics right is a phrase that perhaps most often pops up on training courses, in interviews, or during pitches. But having once again spent another fascinating day judging public sector awards for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), I wonder whether it should be stamped more indelibly across the desks– or possibly…

Just after Boris Johnson was elected for a second term last year, an announcement was made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which we would have all been forgiven for missing – even those of us in the business of public sector communications. The department announced that towns and cities across the UK…

One way of judging an organisation, especially a public sector organisation, is what kind of proactive or reactive stance it takes to communications. At one end of the spectrum are bodies who regard anything other than a holding line as too risky, like to hide behind endless sign off and approval processes, and are too…

Rising concern over a shortage of school places has emerged as a top priority for councillors in London, despite the apparent lack of communication about this as a real issue within the sector. According to London Councils, which is doing it best to redress this, there will be a shortfall of 90,000 places in the…

Not our words, but the headline that precedes this week’s feature on our Managing Director Jonny Popper in PR Week magazine. The full text of the feature by John Owens is kindly reproduced in this post thanks to Haymarket Media. To view the interview in its initial online format, log on to the PR Week website here….