Wednesday, 2 November 2011

A letter to PR Week: 'there are higher goods in life than the successful implementation of a crisis PR strategy'

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PR Week, the magazine for PR professionals ran a piece last week on the Church of England's response to #occupyLSX . I decided to ...
Friday, 28 October 2011

At Occupy London LSX

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I managed to spend a couple of hours at St Paul’s, London last week visiting the #occupylsx camp that’s rocked up there. Most of the occu...
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

'What has to be explained is not the fact that the man who is hungry steals or the man who is exploited strikes, but why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike.' - Wilhelm Reich

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A month on from August’s unprecedented riots in England, we can begin to ask the host of questions needed to uncover why they occurred and ...
Friday, 7 October 2011

Ed Miliband's Values

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‘Value’ was at the semiotic core of Ed Milliband’s 2011 Labour Conference speech. In an oration of some 5,880 words,‘values’ popped up mo...
Thursday, 22 September 2011

Adam Curtis and the Independent Commission on Banking

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BBC producer Adam Curtis has posted a typically idiosyncratic piece about the influence of lobbyists and think tanks in the UK . This was t...
Thursday, 8 September 2011

'Why oh why oh why oh why....'

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Endemic anti-social behaviour among the [feral] proletariat; moral decline; race; and poverty are a selection of justifications used to ‘exp...
Monday, 11 July 2011

'It's Adam Smith Wot Won It'

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The lack of self-awareness in  this pathetic broadhseet ‘opinion’ piece  would be funny but for its concomitant perniciousness.