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I’ve just read an interesting article in strategy + business magazine about Prof Cass Sunstein - the leading figure in behavioural economics. The article focuses on his work in US social policy, based on the principle that small changes to the way choices are presented ...

We have been hired to develop clear new messages and a communications strategy for charity NRCPD, the regulator of sign language interpreters and other communication professionals working with deaf and deafblind people. NRCPD has commissioned this work to help raise its profile, expand the number of registered professionals and encourage ...

Britian’s biggest flooring retailer, Carpetright, has revealed its latest figures, with overall growth dragged down to just 0.8% by a fall in bed sales. Nothing too remarkable there – except for this bizarre ...

International market expansion company Intralink has hired us to develop a marketing strategy and build a long-term prestige brand. Intralink specialises in enabling Western companies to start business in the high-growth markets of China, South Korea, Japan & Taiwan. It delivers market research & sales programmes & helps clients establish overseas operations. We’re beginning with a Kick Start exercise to develop a clear, compelling proposition. We're undertaking ...

Last week gave us another astonishing media interview - with more lessons of what not to do. Irish channel RTE interviewed John O’Keeffe of the Garda Representative Association about an investigation which found the Irish police have been falsifying breath test data. O’Keeffe looked calm enough, but ...

We have just completed messaging and marketing strategy work for Sight for Surrey – an ambitious, long-established blind and deaf charity. The organisation originally started in 1922 to help people with ...

See the cringe-worthy interview with Tim Bell on Newsnight yesterday? Bell was interviewed by Kirsty Wark about the fall from grace of the Bell Pottinger PR firm he founded because of the shameful campaign it ran to stoke racial hatred in South Africa. It seems incredible that a figure with 50 years in the PR industry ...

I’ve just come across an entertaining Tumblr site critiquing property developments and their marketing hoardings.

I say critiquing ... it mostly mocks them, although ...

I've just read this wonderful article by Lucy Kellaway in the FT. It charts her long-running mission to campaign against 'corporate claptrap' and the business world's 'giants of guff'. A worthy cause if ever I heard one. She talks about the 'ugly phrases' she objected to back when she started in 1994 - which all sound ...

The fallout from the Grenfell Tower crisis continues unabated and has hit senior levels of Kensington & Chelsea Borough Council - with angry accusations of an absence of leadership and more heads rolling.