The Liam Fox and Adam Werritty saga has absolutely nothing to do with legitimate public affairs practice, but unfortunately it has served to put lobbying firmly back in the media and political spotlight. Today’s Guardian has an interesting article that analyses the coalition government’s meetings with external representatives in the first 10 months of coming [...]
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Liam Fox and Adam Werritty put lobbying back on the agenda

PRCA and Meltwater defend internet freedom–open letter to UK MPs
Dear Alec I am writing to you asking for your help as a concerned constituent following the Court of Appeal’s decision on the 27 July regarding ‘temporary copying’. The decision means that millions of UK citizens will unwittingly be infringing copyright as they surf the Internet. This situation has arisen as a result of a [...]
Hackgate: The Movie
News International – the movie trailer. #notw
Thank you Iain Dale
Iain Dale has today announced that he’s quitting blogging. Despite our political differences I’ve always had time for Iain. His posts, unlike some in the Tory blogosphere, have at least (usually!) been reasonably fair. When I started blogging in early 2003 it was still very much a minority activity, especially on this side of the [...]
Mandelson reveals his original thoughts on Clause IV
I’ve just returned from a fascinating hour and a half breakfast with Peter Mandelson to talk about his new book The Third Man. From a professional point of view it was a great blogger relations initiative by publishers Harper Collins to invite a small number of ‘progressive’ (the words of their spokesperson) bloggers to a [...]
How often the Labour leadership contenders are mentioned in Mandelson’s book
Haven’t had time to read Lord Mandelson’s weighty tome yet, but have had a quick glance in the index to tot up how many pages each of the Labour leadership contenders get mentioned on: Diane Abbott 0 – not a single reference to Dianne. Ed Balls 41 – yep Ed features pretty big. Andy Burnham [...]
PDF General Election 2010 – Action Replay
I’m looking forward to tonight’s Personal Democracy Forum General Election 2010 – Action Replay at the Royal Society of the Arts. Speakers include two the leading political strategists in the USA – Mindy Finn and Joe Trippi, along with PDF’s founder Andrew Rasiej. From the UK there is Stella Creasy MP, Labour’s new MP in [...]
Not PR or Wolfstar, but Stuart Bruce on politics
If you’re just interested in business, PR or social media then don’t read this post on my politics blog.
Labour iPhone app boosts voter contact
It looks like all reporting of new media innovation in the election campaign by the MSM is now being seen through the same yellow prism of all their other reporting i.e. look for things that make the Liberal Democrats look good/bad and get it in the paper. In the last week we’ve seen breathless reporting [...]
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Public relations isn’t part of marketing
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PR ethics – European Association of Communication Directors’ debate
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PR, Wikipedia and BP–a sorry tale
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EE customer service eventually comes up trumps
January 10, 2013
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How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines
May 14, 2013
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Tom Foremski Thought Leaders event at the CIPR
May 14, 2013
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How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines
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Celebrate Europe Day today
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CIPR president election for 2014
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UNICEF reminds people Facebook Likes don’t save lives
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Stuart Bruce
Award-winning international communications trainer and consultant specialising in online PR, digital corporate communications,digital public affairs and social media. Frequent international media commentator and conference speaker.