My favourite pithy politics post in a very long time. Bang on the money.
David Yelland
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Founded Kitchen Table Partners, edited newspapers in London and New York. Presenter ‘When it Hits the Fan’ @BBCRadio4, @BBCSounds. @ManCity Blue.
I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last yr.The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
Today I am celebrating 20 years of sobriety with Max and Lulu, who have no memory of their daddy ever drinking. #Miracles #Gratitude #Recovery 2️⃣0️⃣🙏🎉
Can Jony Ive & Sam Altman use PR to lift the human spirit? + Macron's Slap Hitter + Elon Musk, the ghost of Roy Cohn; denial ain't just a River in Egypt. We're up NOW on @BBCSounds.
When It Hits the Fan - 'Humanity Deserves Better' - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis examine the hype around something that doesn't exist. Yet.
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Jony Ive and @sama's $6.4B AI mega launch: mere PR or a cause of hope for all our futures? Listen in, 'When It Hits the Fan', @BBCRadio4 4pm UK and then @BBCSounds, @Spotify, @Apple. 🙏@OpenAI youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms?...
Sam & Jony introduce io
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Is banning the media a gateway drug for could-be Robert Maxwells? Insight from the front line + Could a Teach First or Police Now campaign work to boost the care sector? + How ideas might save the undergrad degree at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School....
When It Hits the Fan - You're Banned! - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis examine whether banning a journalist is ever a good idea.
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You're barred! Does banning media ever work for the powerful? Did it work for Nottingham Forest banning Gary Neville? Did it for Maxwell? Or for Fergie? When It Hits the Fan: @BBCRadio4 at 4pm, on @BBCSounds or wherever you get your podcasts.
Enjoyed shooting breeze on influencer culture and what we have learned about how opinion moves around the media multiverse with the excellent Amol Rajan and the equally excellent Ed Vaizey in wake of the conscious uncoupling of Tim Davie and @GaryLineker. 💔 Do listen, The Today Podcast. Up Now.
The Today Podcast - Gary Lineker, the BBC and celebrity influencers - BBC Sounds
Amol reflects on Lineker's career as his MOTD run ends.
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Can Uber persuade the British to ride driverless? Is Gary Lineker a braver communicator than those who remain silent...? Plus: Inside the PR freebie in the age of Trump's Qatari 747. @BBCSounds or wherever you get tour podcasts.
When It Hits the Fan - Robotaxis: Look, no hands! - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis get under the bonnet of how to PR driverless cabs.
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Per NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last yr.UPDATE: Judge Sessions just entered a written order reaffirming his earlier order that Ozturk be immediately released without travel restrictions. Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released.
Up Now: Understanding how trauma crowds out strategy in Prince Harry’s PR, M&S’ cyber-crisis, a brand running on goodwill, Michelle Obama scotches those divorce rumours & a tribute to David Attenborough: @BBCSounds or wherever you get your pods.
When It Hits the Fan - Prince Harry's bombshell interview - BBC Sounds
David and Simon examine whether Prince Harry's interview was a spectacular PR own goal.
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Is PR just 'ultra processed words' and, if so, how do we return to a less toxic diet? This week on Fan Hitters....
When It Hits the Fan - PR is a virus - BBC Sounds
David Yelland is joined by PR guru Phil Elwood, who blames their industry for everything.
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Cyber attacks, such as the one on M&S, need to be viewed like kidnapping: information is purposefully managed out of the media by PR not put in by PR - which would aid the criminal gangs.
UP NOW! 🇨🇳 v 🇺🇸 Is China beating America in the global war for hearts and minds? + 🐀 Rats in Brum + 🚀 Why was Jeff Bezos shocked when his phallic willy-wave met PR scorn? @BBCSounds or wherever you get your podcasts. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...htt
When It Hits the Fan - China's meme warfare, rats and rockets - BBC Sounds
David and Simon discuss if China is out-PRing the US, rats' media appeal and Jeff Bezos.
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Quick, everyone: Be UNCOOL.
a man with a mustache is talking on a red telephone and says i 'm always home
ALT: a man with a mustache is talking on a red telephone and says i 'm always home
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Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · last yr.Very noticeably out of character for President Trump to urge people to "be cool"
An astonishing lack of humility from Niall Ferguson here. In full infallibility mode.
This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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What have I learned so far at #Anthropy25? Blessed are the connectors of people for how else can we solve the problems the world faces...? ... so thank you John O'Brien... 👏🙏 @anthropyuk.bsky.social
Up now on @BBCsounds: Should Heathrow’s boss have gone to bed? Was his Today Programme interview a car crash? Why is National Grid’s PR better than the airport’s? Inside a MegaCrisis… ✈️🔥
When It Hits the Fan - Heathrow special: inside the crisis - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis discuss the PR optics of sleeping CEOs.
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There's something very "wife of a 19th century colonial administrator" about Usha Vance being sent to Greeland to meet the natives.
I'm not Mystic Meg, though she was once part of my team, but how many Nobel laureates would queue up to hand BACK their own prizes if Donald Trump did win one? Anyone thought that far ahead?
I am thrilled to be speaking, and listening, at #Anthropy25. Join me at next week’s national gathering… Anthropy runs from 26-28 March at The Eden Project in Cornwall. @anthropyuk.bsky.social
'Musk must quit Tesla...' Ross Gerber on @BBCNewsnight saying precisely what we say in this week's When It Hits the Fan, do listen on @BBCSounds
Tim Berners-Lee's column in the FT earlier this week should resound around the world. We could free our data from the tech billionaires who have used it to create a world where lies rule, hatred is promoted, truth dies and hope fades. We can do better.
This is absolutely hilarious. Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK. Clearly didn't read it. Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.
Camila Batmanghelidjh was a good and kind woman. Her friends are seeking to rescue her reputation after her death - proof that legacy PR matters, proof of proper friendship. I think she was wrongly blamed, wrongly vilified and am proud to have known her.
Celebrities back legal fight to clear Kids Company’s name
Judicial review challenge to a damning report by the Charity Commission on the company founded by the late Camila Batmanghelidjh
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