I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
A friend is working on a tricky public issue where a group of NGOs are challenging their client. They asked for some advice. As I get the questions quite a lot, I am summarising the advice. I’ll add to it over time. I think they asked me because I ran NGOs campaigns on fisheries, bushmeat, and … Read more
As a species, throughout our history we have communicated primarily by the spoken word. It is literally hard wired into our DNA. Whilst the written word has been around for a few thousand years it is an evolutionary blip. As a means of mass communication, it has been around for only a few hundred years. … Read more
I came to Brussels back in 1997 a wide eyes federalist. Soon afterwards, I landed up working for 2 excellent British Labour MEPs. I was very lucky. I just worked on getting difficult pieces of legislation through quickly. First, I worked for Gordon Adam MEP on fisheries legislation. Then after that law was passed I … Read more
I really don’t like PowerPoint. I find it the least effective way to communicate information to an intended audience. I rank telepathy as more effective. For some reason, none that I can fathom, a lot of lobbyists like taking 62 page slide decks to meetings with politicians and civil servants. They then plod page by page … Read more