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Has the PR industry failed to execute its own PR effectively enough?

Interesting article

Spot on in it's articulation of the problem, people in PR do a great job 'selling' the value of the organisations they work for but often miss the opportunity to do so for our profession

Both publicly but also within our organisations

influenceonline.co.uk/2026/02/20/h...

The King is mad

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

China’s DeepRare AI Aims to Speed Rare Disease Diagnosis A new study published in Nature found that the system provides traceable diagnostic reasoning and improves accuracy without relying on genetic data.

As we see more AI model use in medical diagnosis we'll need a serious conversation on how human validation interacts with them

Who validates and at what stage will be key to making this safe and effective

#Health #NHS #AI

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STONEYGATE LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL BY-ELECTION WIN GRN: 30.4% LAB: 27.7% OL: 16.2% IND: 11.5% CON: 8.3% REM: 2.7% LDM: 1.6% IND: 1.6% GREEN GAIN FROM LABOUR Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

🎉 Green WIN! 🎉

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💚 Congratulations to Aasiya Bora of Leicester Green Party on being elected in Stoneygate ward!

Yes- vote for Hannah Spencer!

I don't often miss twitter

but old twitter would have been the best place to be to laugh at people who think Kpop is a band and not a genre

#Kpop #Belfast

Makes me think about how standard planning templates like OASIS need to adapt going forward to help practitioners communicate in the gaps that are becoming more important

#PR #Communications

A lot of this rings true, and in particular the difficulty of keeping comms in neat buckets of campaigns, messaging, audiences

With the reality often that our work is more messy and interlinked than that

#PR #Communications

Why PR today is less about messaging and more about relationships

Really interesting perspective on shifting the focus of communications from messaging to relationships

influenceonline.co.uk/2026/02/13/w...

#PR #Communications

Something the Government want you to forget...

The Islamic Republic’s Broken Promises of Economic Justice Nearly five decades after it pledged to uplift the poor, the ideological obsessions and cronyism of Iran’s regime have left millions more excluded than ever

In what might be the fading days of the Islamic Republic

Worth remembering that it was a desire for economic justice that propelled it to power, rather than a desire for theocracy

And it's that unmet desire that's has eroded it's foundation

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Public Sector Crises, ‘The Welfare Crunch’ And The Future Of Health And Care | The King's Fund What is the 'welfare crunch' and what does it mean for the future of health and care? Luca Tiratelli explores.

Highlighting a vital need to reimagine and revitalise the welfare state

www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight Back when I was in high school in Sarajevo, my best friend was Zoka. We listened to the same bands, went to the same rock shows, found the same stupid things hilarious, played soccer together, skie…

“Only those safe from fascism and its practices are likely to think that there might be a benefit in exchanging ideas with fascists.”

So true

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In Search of Russia’s Lost Opposition The Russian state has forced many antiwar leftists into exile, cutting them off from ordinary Russians. But activists are well aware that change in Russia must come from within, mobilizing ordinary pe...

Good piece on the broad makeup of Russian opposition to Putin

jacobin.com/2026/02/russ...

Pretty cool tool to see how you're networked

The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.

This is what politics should feel like: thoughtful, honest and shaking things up.

Hannah Spencer is going to be a brilliant MP for Gorton & Denton.

It's time to stop Reform in their tracks:

Watch online this Wednesday.

Surely you can only do so many pivots before you're facing the same way you started with?

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

Excellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….

holy shit

NHS patients put at risk by ‘sham investigations’, says ex-CEO of hospital Exclusive: Dr Susan Gilby, who won £1.4m bullying payout, says whistleblower protections must be strengthened

Shocking story

A health service that truly serves the interests of the public will always be open, transparent and willing to learn

#NHS #Health

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Childlessness in the workplace: The blind spot we don’t talk about enough

Really good piece about such an overlooked but widespread issue

Some great tips for PR / Comms leaders on how to be considerate to colleagues in this situation

#Comms #PR

influenceonline.co.uk/2026/01/09/c...

What stands out is that many people were drawn to free birth because of poor experiences in maternity services - i.e. over medicalisation, not being listened to

A good example of how, when people's needs aren't met they can disengage from services, creating even worse outcomes.

2/2

The Birth Keepers: Death plan – episode six

A really powerful podcast series from @theguardian.com on The Free Birth Society

TW: Baby loss, medical trauma

1/2

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Five things on Friday #407 Maybe the last FToF of 2025.

Today is Monday.

So of course, yesterday being Sunday I published the latest edition of Five things on Friday (that I started writing on Tuesday).

Please enjoy.

www.fivethingsonfriday.com/archive/five...

100% great film (among many from Anderson) - exhibition also looks amazing

What does a good discharge from hospital to home look like? This blog explores what safe discharge from hospital looks like, and what might help should anyone find themselves in an unsafe situation.

In this joint blog, Sarah, one of our callers and Debs, the helpline advisor who took her call, explore what safe discharge from hospital looks like, and what might help should anyone find themselves in an unsafe situation. buff.ly/iYg6Tw2