A teacher at school once told me that the 11th Commandment was ‘Thou shalt not get caught’. I’m not sure what moral lesson that was supposed to teach me while I sat in detention after detention but I feel that Lance Armstrong could have benefited from the sharing in that school experience. ...Read More
Elton John, and Entwistle have much in common. Each have similar haircuts, each have at one point in their careers had an influence over what people listen to and each give the impression that sorry seems to be the hardest word. ...Read More
Last week I appeared on BBC World Service to discuss the mysterious case of China’s Vice President Xi JinPing, who disappeared from public life for nearly two weeks. ...Read More
The Cannes Lions Festival is more than just a celebration of 'International Creativity' and pan-continental networking opportunity; it provides a perfect metaphor for how the advertising industry has had to evolve to meet the challenges of an ever-changing marketplace....Read More
As I take a moment to reflect on this week, one thing is clear: four days in Cannes, attending the International Festival of Creativity, has given me a thirst to learn more about the world of creativity, PR, messaging, content creation, and advertising....Read More
Attending the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this week for the first time (after PLMR won two Gold Lions last year for our public affairs and media relations work), ten things have struck me....Read More
The Sierra Leonean media is quite a different beast from that in the UK. ...Read More
We have a lot of new recruits at PLMR – a happy outcome of our dramatic company growth – many of whom have exotic travelling on their CVs. This has reminded me of my own gap year backpacking in South East Asia, way back in the nineties, where the talk among my fellow travellers was often about Tibet....Read More
“There is no friend as loyal as a book”- Ernest Hemingway...Read More
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