Last weekend saw one of the most exciting evenings in the UK cultural calendar – the BAFTAs. From an event that was once simply thought of as ‘the UK Oscars but not as good,’ the BAFTAs have become a world-renowned mark of recognition in their own right, attracting the biggest...
Twitter tiffs. Are we fed up of them yet? If your interest in the online arguments of the more famous occupants of this world was waning then the all out rant that spewed forth from Kanye West’s Twitter account last week may well have relit your fire. As well as illustrating...
We often see PR firms having to manage the PR disasters of their less savvy clients. It is arresting, then, when a PR adviser gets something very wrong – and when it happens it tends to attract a lot of attention. Shadenfreude isn’t all that we should respond with when this happens....
We regularly bring you examples of ways in which everyone from politicians to celebrities and even ‘normal people’ have managed to make spectacular blunders on social media that have ended up being very high profile. When it comes to brand use of social media, sometimes it can be even more...
It’s an unfortunate reality that most women experience casual sexism as an everyday occurrence. A yell from a white van man as she walks to work, or a presumption she will undertake the lion’s share of household chores; women in modern Britain are wearily accustomed to being the subject of...
Not that long ago I blogged about Taylor Swift’s pretty immaculate record when it comes to well played moves in Twitter spats. Well, it seems I was tempting fate as the internet has been buzzing with Swift’s name this week, linked to all sorts of online arguments. However, it’s not the...
I took a few days off last week and as a consequence found myself delving into the lives of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry through the medium of Heat magazine. Both are two vastly famous and successful young women who seemed to have managed to evade the curse of a...
Admittedly, it's quite difficult to generate a massive amount of sympathy for Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer. In case you've forgotten, he managed to see off Zimbabwe's favourite lion, Cecil, while on one of those awful big game shoot safari holidays that seem to be the penchant of overgrown school children...
The tabloid allegations surrounding Lord Sewell this week put me in mind of a great book I read recently called So...
Twitter is a wonderful tool – an easy way to reach existing, and new, audiences and to grow a public profile. But you don't have to search too many hashtags for startling examples of Twitter-gone-bad especially so among high profile individuals with (monstrous) egos and a head stuffed to the...
