Political Communication

Re-reading Dan Gardner’s ‘Risk’ I am reminded of the importance of framing issues in a way the audience can best understand your case. As an aside, it helps if you don’t piss them off. I’ve worked all sides of the table, from the EP to the Commission,  and been a lobbyist for industry and NGOs.  … Read more

If you are involved in communicating about risk, you need to have read the writing of Dan Gardner and Cass Sunstein. I don’t mean flick through. I mean ‘read’ in the way Mortimer Adler suggested. A Simple Rule of Thumb Unsurprisingly for a chemical lobbyist, I discuss issues around risk and cost-benefit analysis a lot. To … Read more

The following is an adaptation of the checklist and longer briefing I written on what to do if a NGO attacks you. There is nothing original in here. When I have used some of these ideas with clients they have walked away more or less unscathed. Most commercial interests hunker down and hope they can … Read more

I’ve pushed out a recent burst of posts on campaigning. There is nothing original in those posts. I have begged, borrowed and recycled ideas from the campaigning giants who I have had the honour to work with and know. A long time ago I came across the writing of Chris Rose. Chris has written two … Read more