Avoiding comment on politics or social issues used to be an orthodoxy of corporate communication. But in the past two years, speaking up has ceased to be the risk it was. In…

Tuesday’s headlines were written seconds into Dominic Cummings’ response to the first question at his Downing Street press conference. BBC political editor Laura Kuenessberg had just asked the government advisor…

Keir Starmer had no grand stage from which to make his acceptance speech after becoming British Labour party leader at the weekend. The speech itself was visually and rhetorically unspectacular and while Starmer’s…

VC meetings are proving a boon for empathic communication and not just because of the childhood teddies, feral toddlers and family pets making unexpected appearances on our screens. “I’m listening…

“We have it very much under control.” This simple statement of reassurance was a strong, memorable message from President Trump on Tuesday. But the words, about virus Covid-19 in the US, have already…

Caution: If you’re in what the media might call a ‘high profile’ role in the City, take care with what you post on social media – especially pics showing off…

Helen Lucas and Jeremy Adams Labour party leadership contender Lisa Nandy played a blinder in last week’s interview with BBC heavyweight Andrew Neil. Her clear and confident delivery followed the woeful…

It’s hard to say what most damaging about the Financial Times interview in which Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters complained about “immature investors” questioning the size of his company pension.  First it…