The communication landscape is starting to shift 1376 768 Finlay Gardner

The communication landscape is starting to shift

With the increase in popularity of large language models (LLMs) the communication landscape is starting to shift. We no longer have to consider only our human readers, but there is a case to be made…

Is it always important to talk to the national press? 1920 1281 Caroline Klein

Is it always important to talk to the national press?

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that specialist trade publications are less worthy of attention that mass media. Last week the Telegraph complained bitterly in an article that Lloyd’s of London had “shunned” the newspaper…

When your PR is tied to someone else’s: can you stop the comparison games? 2560 1920 Candela Farroni

When your PR is tied to someone else’s: can you stop the comparison games?

Some figures (or brands) become permanently linked in public imagination. Before my visit to Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable rivals & originals exhibition (ends 12 April 2026), I didn’t know these two great artists had…

International Women’s Day 2026: what would you #GiveToGain? 1920 1080 Ellie Livingstone

International Women’s Day 2026: what would you #GiveToGain?

International Women’s Day is a global celebration dedicated to the advancement of women worldwide and belongs to all who care about gender equality. This year marks 115 years of collective action, advocacy, and progress towards…

New year, new language? – Reflecting on 1000+ days of language learning 1036 725 Cressida Tarver

New year, new language? – Reflecting on 1000+ days of language learning

As the new year is now upon us, many will be starting a year of self-improvement, taking on new hobbies or skills. One of the most common new year’s resolutions is learning a new language,…

Community and challenge 1920 1273 Caroline Klein

Community and challenge

I recently participated in two thought provoking events on the same day: one was an in-person Insider Progress event hosted by EY with breakfast and networking thrown in, while the other was an online webinar…

The death of summer and the nostalgia of autumn 1500 1000 Bec Seaton

The death of summer and the nostalgia of autumn

While most people mourn the slow death of summer, the long days and the warm nights, I feel a quiet thrill as September arrives. I am a July baby, born in the heart of summer,…

I can now look at my dad in a slightly different light 1968 1030 Gavin Warren

I can now look at my dad in a slightly different light

All my life, I believed there was only one side to my dad. The side of a fun, relaxed (unless there is a cushion on the floor) nice but seemingly not incredibly hard-working man. But…

Learning the ropes 1020 684 Melissa Phillipson

Learning the ropes

I’m not really sure what came over me, or what my colleagues thought had come over me, when one day during a Wednesday afternoon CSR meeting, I proposed an idea. After this year’s expected unsuccessful…

Lighter days, shorter nights 1920 1280 Camilla De'Arth

Lighter days, shorter nights

The summer solstice is arguably my favourite day of the year. I may not be banging a drum and frolicking around Stonehenge with a bunch of hippies, but I take it as a day to…

Think twice before you ChatGPT 1920 1280 Olivia Thomson

Think twice before you ChatGPT

The other day, I was doing my usual post-work doom scroll through social media, reviewing posts from friends, reading headlines of articles published by the New York Times and SF Chronicle, and catching up on…

Never waste a quote 2560 1708 Candela Farroni

Never waste a quote

The work of PR and comms specialists has evolved in recent years to include new formats. But among the abundance of options to choose from when putting a message out into the world, such as…