Posted on The European Commission’s (disclaimer: former employer) new legislative package on artificial intelligence has drawn plenty of attention for banning high risk uses such as live facial recognition and social credit scoring. That transparency will be mandatory has generated less ink. Yet it is a critical ingredient of the Commission’s risk-based, trust-centric approach and, as such, […]
Posted on A few years ago, I was at lunch with a coach and we were chatting about experiences and interpretation of events. They used this example: If someone stands outside this restaurant with a clipboard and asks you questions about this lunch afterwards, you will have a very different version to me. Yet we are sharing […]
Posted on The 48-hour life cycle of the proposed European Super League showed the cost of not working with stakeholders, especially political ones. Decisions made behind closed doors are doomed to failure. Politicians, especially, never like to be excluded. The complete and utter outrage that followed immediately on the late night/early morning official announcement must have been […]
Posted on By Andy West, Group Chief Development Officer, Hotwire. Being mid-way through my 4th decade in PR, I reckon might be forgiven for kicking back and believing in my own abilities. As a proud member of a global leadership team in an award-winning consultancy, I’m surrounded by smart people who do incredible things. We talk about […]
Posted on The spectacular rise and fall of European football’s Super League this week has been one of the biggest non-Covid stories of the year in the UK, thanks in part to pledges from Boris Johnson and other politicians to intervene. But what about other football-mad European countries – both those whose clubs were among its founders, […]
Posted on By Matt Baldwin. The battle between Colin and Cuthbert – both caterpillars and cakes – is crawling towards the courts, shuffled along by a cringeworthy litigation comms campaign driven, it seems, by Aldi’s social media team. The details of the case can easily be found online, but it is unlikely that either retailer will emerge […]
Posted on The public wants what the public gets… In 2013 – before the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists had been installed under the Lobbying Act – Tamasin Cave of SpinWatch gave evidence to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (PCRC) calling the proposed register “not fit for purpose”. The industry agreed; it would cover only a small proportion of lobbying […]
Posted on By Matt Stott, Account Manager at PR and Digital Marketing agency, Genesis. They think it’s all over… The flawed, fraught European Super League was always destined to fail before a ball was even kicked – literally in anger judging by player vitriol which has smashed through the prosaic wall of media training in recent days. […]
Posted on Amazon has recently taken a more public and aggressive approach to political engagement. But using Twitter to engage in a more direct way is not without its pitfalls. Decisions about whether and how to use Twitter in any public affairs campaign is now a normal part of strategy development. Some organisations are more geared up […]
Posted on By Natasha Bougourd. When the knock-on effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are discussed, much of the focus is on the impact on the economy and our physical and mental health. While many businesses have suffered, others have flourished – exercise equipment, homeware, DIY, and gardening retailers, amongst others. When it comes to business-to-business, technology providers, […]