Political Communication

I have taken advantage of illness to catch up on a lot of reading. At last I got around to finishing George Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of an Elephant“. Progressive Guru George Lakoff is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He’s been helping progressive causes better frame the public and political … Read more

  I am sometimes asked what makes a Campaign work. I usually say go and read Chris Rose’s How to Win Campaigns, and if you are really serious about winning, What Makes People Tick. Most people don’t bother, but if they do I will say something like: “Detailed plans – useful up to a point … Read more

I am sometimes asked if I were looking for a political consultant what would I look for? I usually answer that I would look for someone who not only has walked through the political fires and back, but someone who has shepherded people through the political fires and back, and lived to tell the tale. … Read more

The rules of the game in Brussels have changed.  President Juncker’s Commission has a very new political agenda, and one which it intends to apply with new rules on how the Commission works. NGOs and others seemed to be caught off guard when these rules got changed. Some seem to refusing to accept that the rules … Read more