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Media report falling crime shocker
3 Feb 2010 Persuading the public not to live in fear of crime is never easy. When we have done research with local communities, fear of crime often rises even when recorded crime is falling sharply. Yet fear of crime can be very damaging to the lives of many communities. Generations... read moreLet’s Reward Failure – It’s Funnier
11 Nov 2009 So the organisers of the concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall tried to keep people without tickets out by....building a wall. A fairly obvious PR blunder that the organisers MTV failed to spot. A bit like marking the liberation of Iraq by raising the stars and stripes... read more
24 Sep 2009
I recently went to a presentation by a London council on how they evaluated their internal communication. Up came an impressive bar chart. The fact that the five bars on the left exceeded the four on the right meant that the staff recognised all of the corporate priorities of... read more
Duck House Should Be Saved For The Nation
10 Jun 2009 So, Sir Peter Viggers’ infamous duck house, which came to symbolise some of the worst excesses of the MPs’ expenses scandal, may be sold for charity. This of course raises the possibility that this much loved icon of parliamentary profligacy could be snatched up... read more
