Wow, this week has been a long one, hasn’t it? I’d done three days work by the end of Tuesday. So Wednesday felt like Thursday and really it should have been Friday yesterday.
I ran my third half marathon on 16 October, in 2 hours 28 minutes – the same times as two years ago and I’m happy with that. It was good to finally get it done – the Bath Half has been delayed twice since March and again May this year, both for Covid reasons, so I was in so-called “training” over the summer. It’s amazing I finished, all things considered.
Then I zipped off to Marrakesh for a week, which was wonderful – hectic, especially the first weekend which coincided with school holidays there as well as here.
I have a new client in The Halo Trust who protect lives and restore livelihoods all over the world, clearing mines and explosive debris from conflict zones. I’ll be doing social media for The Halo Trust for the next few months and am duty bound to say that this week they launched a podcast, Beyond Bombs, with former Marine JJ Chalmers which you can find on this link and wherever you get your podcasts.
This week I helped Channel 4 News PR an exclusive interview with former Deputy Chief Whip Anne Milton, about her time working with Sir Gavin Williamson. Milton slammed Williamson’s behaviour as “immoral and unethical” and “shocking”. C4 News then had two superb guests in Anneliese Dodds MP, chair of the Labour Party, and Lord Kerslake, a former Head of the Civil Service and now a crossbench Peer. Williamson tweeted his resignation 11 minutes after the programme ended.
The story was widely picked up the following day by all the national press, C4 News got a mention on the Today programme and #C4News trended for a while on Twitter after the programme ended on Tuesday night.
All in all, a good day’s work, securing national PR for a really “extraordinary” interview. You can watch it here.
In other news
This is quite alarming about the BBC preparing scripts for possible winter blackouts.
Bad news for ITV which saw a 14% downturn in its advertising revenue in the third quarter.
And finally, it wouldn’t be the run-up to Christmas without the annual John Lewis Christmas ad which this year seeks to raise awareness of young people in care. Fitting, for a season that will be dominated by the cost of living crisis.
I must admit, it was great to have a break from depressing news and the political merry-go-round for a week. They used to ask mentally ill patients who is the current prime minister to ascertain how lucid they were. I’m quite mentally well these days but I’m struggling to remember the PM is currently Rishi Sunak.
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