The furore over Rory Bremner’s spoof call to Margret Becket continues to generate newspaper and radio debate this morning, 24 hours after the story broke in full. I continue to feel the back-draft issues from close quarters. Rory called me last night to say that he had decided, in consultation with his producer Geoff Atkinson,…
The Borkowski poet in residence imagines what might really be going on in some Labour MPs’ minds after Peter Hain’s furious reaction to satirist Rory Bremner’s hoax phone call to Margaret Beckett in 2005, in which he pretended to be Gordon Brown and got her to gossip about cabinet colleagues. For more information, click here….
It’s been a relentless 48 hours managing the Rory Bremner news maelstrom! If you have not been reading the papers perhaps you missed the news that the brilliant impressionist hoaxed the Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett. Rory tricked her when he pretended to be Chancellor Gordon Brown. Rory phoned her on the day on 2005 general…
So if anybody wonders what its like to be in the public eye watch this film on Youtube. Its little wonder that Britney Spears is finding hard to keep out the press when a pack of jackals are pursuing her. The poor woman must be going through a hard time and needs space but of…
After the launch of the new Virgin Megastore in Manchester Borkowski muses on the effort that goes into a press launch. This candid snap shot encapsulates the feelings of a publicist after the media have packed up and gone home.