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By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2012
You have to feel for new BBC director-general George Entwistle – no, not that way – who has walked into the biggest minefield the corporation has faced since Andrew Gilligan’s carelessly-worded (but true) allegation about Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell’s conning of the nation about the need to invade Iraq. Which resulted in the departure [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, BBC, Chris Patten, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Iraq, Jimmy Savile, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on May 23, 2012
Well he sort of is, former Downing Street comms chief Alastair Campbell (pictured) is going to work as a consultant for one of his former underlings, Portland PR boss Tim Allan who sold a majority stake to Omnicom in April. For once Campbell’s career timing doesn’t look too good. He says he’s been thinking about [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, comme chief.strategic brain, downing street, hype, omnicom, portland pr, Tim Allan, Tony Blair
By Staff on April 12, 2012
Downing Street must be paved with gold – or so it must seem to Tim Allen (pictured), boss of London PR firm Portland, who has just sold a majority stake in his company to Omnicom. The deal values Portland at up to £20m. Allen is a former PR adviser to Tony Blair in Number 10 [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged 10 downing street, Alastair Campbell, bskyb, google, omnicom, politics, PR, Rachel Whetstone, Steve Hilton, Tesco, the red brick road, Tim Allan, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2012
Mark Thompson (pictured) has been director-general of the BBC since 2004 when he came back to the corporation from a short stint at Channel 4 as the Beeb reeled from the enforced departure of Greg Dyke. Dyke, a former boss of London Weekend Television, has been forced out after the BBC governors, in effect the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, BBC, bbc1, Caroline Thompson, Channel 4, director-general, dodgy dossier, Dr David Kelly, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Helen Boaden, iraq war, Jonathan Ross, Mark Thompson, media city, Peter Fincham, Robert Peston, Russell Brand, sachsgate, salford, sexed up, Tony Blair
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
Senior advertising executives were probably quite happy to see David and Samantha Cameron scamper up the steps of 10 Downing Street last May. They had endured 13 years of hard Labour. A total ban on cigarette advertising in 2002 was followed in 2007 by severe TV restrictions on the advertising of food high in fat, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Boulton, Alastair Campbell, coalition government, conservative central office, David Buckingham, David Cameron, Ed Balls, government strategist 10 downing streeet, Lord Saatchi, m&c saatchi, mothers union, Reg Bailey, saatchi & saatchi, Samantha Cameron, Steve Hilton
By James Charlton on June 1, 2011
It has long been in Britain’s interests to advertise. From ‘Rule, Britannia!’ to ‘Cool Britannia’ it’s important for the British to be, and to feel, special. As much as our politicians might think they are judged on their intelligence, experience or debating skills, they are often defined by the sort of place Britain is perceived [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged adspend, Alastair Campbell, cool britannia, David Cameron, Davif Cameron, George Osborne, Margaret Thatcher, rule britainia, rule britannia, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Blair, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 14, 2011
He’s just acquired another one of course in former BBC producer Craig Oliver but the consensus (and it’s early days so far) is that Oliver is useless. More noted for the array of technology he carries with him than any advice he may or not give, Oliver seems unable to persuade his boss UK coalition [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andy Coulson, british empire, Craig Oliver, daily mail, David Cameron, immigration, john Prescott, kashmir, Nick Robinson, oxford university, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Glover, Tony Blair, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on March 21, 2011
Well it’s not looking good with the Arab League, Russia, China and India already saying that France, the UK and the US have gone too far, too fast in blitzing Libya with cruise missiles. And the UK and the US saying France jumped the gun in launching air strikes on Saturday while the parties were [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alastair Campbell, arab league, Barck Obama, Bill Clinton, Colonel Gaddafi, David Cameron, kossovo, libya, nicolas sarkozy, pr disaster, serbia, Tony Blair
By David O'Reilly on August 17, 2010
It must have seemed a bright idea at the time but it’s hardly surprising that Tony Blair’s decision to hand the £4.6 million advance and any profits from his autobiography to the Royal British Legion has attracted more criticism than praise. In typical Blair fashion the move has been handled in an ill-prepared, vague way [...]
Posted in News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Bono, Iraq, Royal British Legion, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on May 11, 2010
Sometime or other we may have a government in the UK. In the meantime we must amuse ourselves with the antics of the broadcasters and here we have Sky political editor Adam Boulton and Tony Blair’s spinmeister Alastair Campbell (once a hack himself at the Mirror) almost coming to blows live on TV. Boulton, who’s [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Adam Boulton, Alastair Campbell, Gordon Brown, sky, Tony Blair
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