Sometimes – It’s Ok Not to Be Ok On World Mental Health Day, my son recently published a simple comment on Facebook and he said that actually mental health should always be talked about and that sometimes it’s OK to not be OK. He’s right, we...
NHS to RAF and Back Again – a Reflection Have you ever had a dream that has quite literally changed your life? I did. In 1989, I had a steady job as a generalist manager in the NHS, I was doing well, and I had been promoted a number of times. At the age of 27, I was...
‘It’s not rocket science this comms lark is it? said a CEO to me recently, ‘it’s common sense’. Well, of course, it is not rocket science but common sense is not as common as one thinks. There is much dabbling in ‘comms’ in the broad sense, all of the time – many...
A successful England football World Cup campaign in more ways than one – on the field and off it. An excellent positive media offensive has positively cemented the players and managers in our public imagination – maybe Southgate could be Prime Minister!...
When you have a large internal audience of over 8500 staff to keep informed, that’s one big elephant. However, I sometimes wonder if we are overfeeding said big elephant. Do we as communications professionals sometimes offer too much information to digest? It’s often...
Listening to Radio 4 Test Match Special – I heard Aggers refer to England cricketers batting in the Crepuscular twilight. I liked the phrase and it reminded me of something I had read on some social media forum a few days earlier about the corpuscular theory of...
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