Jeremy Corbyn has always insisted that Labour policy be decided by consultation and debate. With the leaking of a draft of the party’s manifesto, Labour has launched its most ambitious act of policy crowdsourcing. As a pundit pointed out, leaking the manifesto is probably the surest way of getting the media to seriously read it….
If you’re looking for a good word of the day, try apanthropinization. It means to rise above or resign from one’s narrow concerns and worldly worries. Over the next six weeks of what looks set to be a dreary election campaign we will all be needing some of that. We’ve moaned about the lack of…
There is no worse PR for the establishment than to be seen to be awarding good PR, but Conservative campaign guru Lynton Crosby’s knighthood is a vindication of his world-class talents, writes Mark in PR Week. http://www.prweek.com/article/1377973/lynton-crosby-noble-knight-common-pr-touch
As the curtain is drawn on the Tory Party love fest this link popped into my inbox yesterday. It’s a cautionary tale for all aspiring would be political spin meisters. Take five minutes to read the article it does proves that all publicity is not necessarily good publicity news.yahoo.com
What a mistake that Christmas card was, says Jasper Gerard. Didn’t Derek Conway know that a Tory MP posing with his family meant he had something to hide? The Daily Telegraph 31st January 2008 Reaching for the marmalade, you glance at the photo on the Telegraph’s front page – and you are suddenly consumed by…
The news last week that Derek Laud emerged from the Big Brother house to be swept away by his new PR minder Christine Hamilton was only slightly surprising, not utterly so. After all, they’re both professional Tories and endangered species like that need to stick together to avoid total extinction. All the same, the old…