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What a load of one-sided nonsense from Emma Jacobs in last week's FT – ‘Publicity is free with no PRs’.

I went for a ski lesson last week, as I'm going on my first ski trip in over 10 years later this month.

Seeing this story about Google displaying a spoof logo for PC World in its search results last week made me laugh. A lot.

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has just released its ‘State of the profession survey 2013/14’. Several interesting points emerge.

Great insight into how European business buyers think and behave is revealed by the 2013 Buyersphere study, which probed 500 purchasers of significant business items (worth £20k - £78m each) in the UK, France and Germany.

I’ve just read a thought-provoking - if misguided - article by marketing author Jay Baer. It outlines how how far fewer purchase transactions involve interaction between real human beings these days and draws some interesting marketing implications.

A fascinating article by David Taylor from the brandgym about the book ‘Decoded: the science behind why we buy,’ addresses how we assimilate vast amounts of information to make hundreds of decisions in our every-day lives.

There's an intriguing article in today's The Times headed 'Civil servant spent £73,000 on consultant to prepare himself for grilling by MPs.'

PR Week’s annual survey of the top 150 UK PR agencies has just been published – with extremely encouraging results.

PR Week’s latest opinion column is fundamentally wrong about the value of professional passion.