January 2013

RIM’s Stephen Bates – disaster in motion on BBC 5 live

If you’re a business launching a make or break product, a prime time national radio interview…
David Cameron, Harold Wilson and Euro referendums

David Cameron has opened a new chapter in Britain’s troubled membership of what we now call…
Britain’s winter’s tale

I was seven before I remember playing in the snow. Christmas 1970 was a winter wonderland…
Proud of the NHS

Today has been a stressful yet wonderful day. My amazing 84 year old mother has had…
Life in the blitz: the hairdresser’s forgotten customer

Mum told me a funny (true) story when I went home to Wales yesterday. During the…
New pennies, old memories

We’ve started giving Owen (aged 4) coins as pocket money every day. Our aim is to…
Happy 150th birthday, London Underground

The London Underground celebrated its 150th birthday yesterday. On 9 January 1863, a Metropolitan Railway steam…
Remembering Douglas Smith Hon FCIPR

UPDATED 20.35 4 January 2012 with comment from Bob Skinner Britain’s PR profession is today mourning…
You guys – the greeting that grates

Call me old fashioned if you like. But I hate the expression ‘you guys’. I’m not…
Remembering Tony Greig and Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Cricket lost two legends as 2012 gave way to 2013. First Tony Greig, the South Africa-born…