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STUNTMANIA…
…Rules OK? From Batman to the Sun Bomber to Otis Ferry & the Chambermen, the newspapers are now gorging themselves on Stunt. This is the outcome of what must have been a feast of secret planning over what the rest of us thought was just the Silly Season. The invasion of the House of Commons,…
CAN'T BUY ME LOVE
Tucked away in PR week is a sad little paragraph about Geoff Baker getting the sack from Sir Paul McCartney’s organisation MPL. The two have parted company after a solid association lasting 15 years, and as of now Baker is unemployed. ‘His behaviour has not reached the professional standards I had come to expect from…
Command and control
The snap that came with a catch Mark Borkowski, a veteran publicist, said that it is now “the norm” for exclusive pictures to be released to the media with stipulations about how they are to be used. If the Royal Family is embracing the ways of celebrity PR, he is only surprised that it hasn’t…
Batman
The history of direct action is a proud one, taking in the likes of Peter Tatchell, Greenpeace and Swampy. Many feature very brave individuals � think of those campaigners on their tiny inflatable boat heading out to tackle a huge tanker or whaler. And it does work. The bottom line is that here we are,…
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
There was an old fashioned feeling to the Groucho last night, in which diminutive terpsichordist Wayne Sleep and Mexican-speaking beardo Rory McGrath very nearly came to blow, blows sorry. ‘I wouldn’t put my **** anywhere near your mouth’ shouted David at Goliath. How very nostalgic. And Gordon Ramsey was in the brasserie so the food…
What's so funny?
What’s so funny? Mario Testino’s 20th-birthday portrait of Prince Harry with his brother and father shows the three royals sharing a joke. But is that all that’s going on? We ask the experts for their analysis Mark Borkowski PR expert Prince Harry’s official 20th-birthday photograph is the tried-and-tested, safe PR route favoured by the royal…
�This Morning� this morning. Invited on to �This Morning� with the smart n savvy Lorraine Kelly and Philip Schofield. �All Human Life Is There� the News of the World used to emblazon across its masthead. Well, Rupert Murdoch�s editors may have lowered their sights, but not the ITV pantechnicon that is This Morning. There�s more…
‘This Morning’ this morning.
‘This Morning’ this morning. Invited on to ‘This Morning’ with the smart n savvy Lorraine Kelly and Philip Schofield. ‘All Human Life Is There’ the News of the World used to emblazon across its masthead. Well, Rupert Murdoch’s editors may have lowered their sights, but not the ITV pantechnicon that is This Morning. There’s more…
NOT ENOUGH COOKS
A pleasure to meet up with Robin Cook MP, the distinguished member for Livingston, former Foreign Secretary, and notorious racing enthusiast. The occasion was the Oldie Literary lunch in Edinburgh yesterday, which I was hosting on behalf of our clients Swan Hellenic. Other guests included the travel writer Charlie Connelly, author of ‘Attention All Shipping’….