My favourite pithy politics post in a very long time. Bang on the money.

I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…

Today I am celebrating 20 years of sobriety with Max and Lulu, who have no memory of their daddy ever drinking. #Miracles #Gratitude #Recovery 2️⃣0️⃣🙏🎉

Can Jony Ive & Sam Altman use PR to lift the human spirit? + Macron's Slap Hitter + Elon Musk, the ghost of Roy Cohn; denial ain't just a River in Egypt. We're up NOW on @BBCSounds.

Jony Ive and @sama's $6.4B AI mega launch: mere PR or a cause of hope for all our futures? Listen in, 'When It Hits the Fan', @BBCRadio4 4pm UK and then @BBCSounds, @Spotify, @Apple. 🙏@OpenAI youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms?...

Is banning the media a gateway drug for could-be Robert Maxwells? Insight from the front line + Could a Teach First or Police Now campaign work to boost the care sector? + How ideas might save the undergrad degree at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School....

You're barred! Does banning media ever work for the powerful? Did it work for Nottingham Forest banning Gary Neville? Did it for Maxwell? Or for Fergie? When It Hits the Fan: @BBCRadio4 at 4pm, on @BBCSounds or wherever you get your podcasts.

Enjoyed shooting breeze on influencer culture and what we have learned about how opinion moves around the media multiverse with the excellent Amol Rajan and the equally excellent Ed Vaizey in wake of the conscious uncoupling of Tim Davie and @GaryLineker. 💔 Do listen, The Today Podcast. Up Now.

Can Uber persuade the British to ride driverless? Is Gary Lineker a braver communicator than those who remain silent...? Plus: Inside the PR freebie in the age of Trump's Qatari 747. @BBCSounds or wherever you get tour podcasts.

Per NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!

Up Now: Understanding how trauma crowds out strategy in Prince Harry’s PR, M&S’ cyber-crisis, a brand running on goodwill, Michelle Obama scotches those divorce rumours & a tribute to David Attenborough: ⁦‪@BBCSounds‬⁩ or wherever you get your pods.

Is PR just 'ultra processed words' and, if so, how do we return to a less toxic diet? This week on Fan Hitters....

Cyber attacks, such as the one on M&S, need to be viewed like kidnapping: information is purposefully managed out of the media by PR not put in by PR - which would aid the criminal gangs.

"Do you even own a black suit?"

UP NOW! 🇨🇳 v 🇺🇸 Is China beating America in the global war for hearts and minds? + 🐀 Rats in Brum + 🚀 Why was Jeff Bezos shocked when his phallic willy-wave met PR scorn? ⁦‪@BBCSounds‬⁩ or wherever you get your podcasts. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...htt

this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

Quick, everyone: Be UNCOOL.

An astonishing lack of humility from Niall Ferguson here. In full infallibility mode.

I'll raise you this Magnolia 👀

This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

What have I learned so far at #Anthropy25? Blessed are the connectors of people for how else can we solve the problems the world faces...? ... so thank you John O'Brien... 👏🙏 @anthropyuk.bsky.social

Up now on @BBCsounds: Should Heathrow’s boss have gone to bed? Was his Today Programme interview a car crash? Why is National Grid’s PR better than the airport’s? Inside a MegaCrisis… ✈️🔥

There's something very "wife of a 19th century colonial administrator" about Usha Vance being sent to Greeland to meet the natives.

Circling back on this…

I'm not Mystic Meg, though she was once part of my team, but how many Nobel laureates would queue up to hand BACK their own prizes if Donald Trump did win one? Anyone thought that far ahead?

I am thrilled to be speaking, and listening, at #Anthropy25. Join me at next week’s national gathering… Anthropy runs from 26-28 March at The Eden Project in Cornwall. @anthropyuk.bsky.social

'Musk must quit Tesla...' Ross Gerber on @BBCNewsnight saying precisely what we say in this week's When It Hits the Fan, do listen on @BBCSounds

Tim Berners-Lee's column in the FT earlier this week should resound around the world. We could free our data from the tech billionaires who have used it to create a world where lies rule, hatred is promoted, truth dies and hope fades. We can do better.

This is absolutely hilarious. Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK. Clearly didn't read it. Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.

Camila Batmanghelidjh was a good and kind woman. Her friends are seeking to rescue her reputation after her death - proof that legacy PR matters, proof of proper friendship. I think she was wrongly blamed, wrongly vilified and am proud to have known her.

Why did Thames Water think a fly-on-the-wall was a good idea? ➕ Inside Tesla’s Elon Musk crisis ➕ Why the Villa is good PR for Prince William.

Prince William passion for @AVFCOfficial, his SEVEN pages in today’s @TheSun is PR genius, he and the Palace using football as soft power, superb for the paper too. Really interesting moment.

Keir Starmer has, quite suddenly, conquered the Daily Mail. This, coupled with his @TheNewsAgents interview completes the best tactical PR week so far.

Often stop at Little Gidding on way back from visiting the north, better than the A1 Services, a reminder in this tiny Church, beloved by Eliot, that America produces very great men and women - worth remembering right now - and "All manner of thing shall be well." 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Trump is three months in, it is, in so many ways, falling apart. A populist President blames the people for boycotting Tesla and selling its stock. Sad.

'Elbows Up' - How Canada's Mark Carney, ex of this Parish, is finding the words to fight Trump PLUS The King's challenge as he navigates being Head of State of the UK AND Canada PLUS The role of denial, pride and vulnerability in the creation of crisis and the handling of it by powerful men.

Today’s New York Times (@maggieNYT et al) superb on Musk Vs Bannon and how Trump is increasingly failing to manage the two egos. Important. This is new.

To describe Dorothy Hepworth as just “another painter” rather misses the entire Spencer/Preece story, does it not? Maybe Januszczak was badly edited.

Whole world is in daily trauma as we wake to Trump, Musk & Vance, if the three had a spiritual programme or any degree of self-awareness or humility the world might instantly transform. But ketamine, in one case, crowds out the spirit like alcohol and narcissism do too.🙏

James Graham is a genius. His latest play at the Young Vic may be his best yet. In tears at the end. Theme is restorative justice and a pleasure to meet Jacob, pic 2, the real person whose killing of another man with a single punch is the basis of the story. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

Europeans are being much more realistic about what's happening in America than any US media.

SPECIAL EDITION: How Trump curated THAT moment in the Oval, the words that Zelensky COULD deploy after the overnight news and inside the British mission to use The King to win hearts and minds. ⁦‪@BBCSounds‬⁩

Masterstroke! The news just breaking that Zelensky is off to meet the King is, by some margin, the best British PR move since.... well.... forever?

I proudly lived in the United States a decade, Green Card Permanent Resident. Feel embarrassed for America and all my friends there.... but never give up on the USA....

Friends of the late Mike Lynch are asking the PM why we still have a one-way extradition treaty with the United States, which grants DoJ effective right to pursue our citizens (unless they are called Andrew Tate)...

Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:

just an all-timer of b2b posts

So… let’s get this right… China can own water suppliers in northern UK (and maybe soon all of London) UAE can own our ports, Qatar slices of the City but Abu Dhabi cannot be allowed to have…., er, ITV……or Telegraph….. which, by the any, nobody else seems to want….

Can smart PR counter Trump's disinformation bubble? ➕Peter Mandelson's 'interesting speech' doorstep quote ➕Our take on what Jason Knauf, Simon Case and Chief Whip Simon Hart did next.