I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
In Europe, NGOs have helped bring about landmark environmental and climate laws. A combination of campaigning and deft lobbying has taken an idea for progressive change and delivered it through EU law and policy. In Brussels, I have had the honour to work with Lesley O’Donnell at IFAW and then Tony Long at WWF. … Read more
On my regular weekend Ubers service, my 16-year-old son asked me what I do for a living. I started with the standard response. ” I help people make the best case possible to get the law they want. That usually involves getting them to put their best messages down on paper. Then, we put them … Read more
Recently I stumbled up the work of Edwin Tufte. After reading it, I understood why most public policy communication can be better communicated by good visualisation rather than data dumps and words. Even if an image / picture tells a thousand words, writing 2 pages of A4 is still the common path. I’m not sure … Read more
Lobbyists are impacted by bias. Either their clients/members or they have a worldview that they bring to the consideration of an issue. It is normal and it harms your chances of winning. This paper, ‘Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases’, (link) suggests that … Read more