I’m on a panel at the IBA next week discussing how law firms can best spend their marketing budgets and one of the questions we will be discussing is whether the directories still matter. Some of you may remember that a...
This week I have been lucky enough to be chosen as the guest blogger for the Bar Council of England and Wales. As plenty of us are heading off to the IBA in Washington next week I thought a blog...
Will a leading politician ever tweet while taking a Virgin train north again? Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s social media update, insisting that he was experiencing a problem faced “by many passengers every day” is now notorious. The episode polarises opinion – his...
You were probably as surprised as I was on Wednesday to see an article circulating from the Metro entitled ‘Theresa May’s husband steals the show in sexy navy suit as he starts new life as First Man.’ The...
A lot of people I know were staring at the TV in hope or despair from the 10 o’clock news till that 6am declaration at the end of last week. (Some say they blinked in this time, but I don’t...
“This just shows how mad it is for any firm of Solicitors to use Twitter.” The above is a comment posted after the Law Society Gazette’s online report about a firm of solicitors that recently found itself in hot water as...
You may or may not have heard of Azealia Banks, an American rapper, singer and songwriter with more than a bit of a penchant for foul language and shocking lyrics. She’s a public figure with a reputation for being controversial...
To enjoy being walked on in high heels is, apparently, a thing – though even among fetishists, I imagine we’re talking about a minority of dedicatees. Certainly accountancy giant PwC didn’t seem to enjoy the experience over the last week. If you...
Twitter is getting a bit of a bad reputation these days. What with the use of Periscope to film sexual assaults and examples of terrible trolling, almost too numerous to count, sometimes it seems like the social media platform has...
Some actors seem willing to appear in almost anything – and may even take a quiet pride in their ability to lift a so-so script or story line. If you have your doubts about this idea, you might seek out...
