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It’s been a week of losses and gains. The critically endangered Regent Honeyeater has lost the ability to sing – and therefore meet its mates. “They don’t get the chance to hang around with other honeyeaters and learn what they’re supposed to sound like,” explained a member of the Difficult Bird Research Group (yes, really).…

Emanating from a communications consultancy, it would be quite odd for Insight not to comment on a week that has proved something of a right royal mash up. Starting with the most significant bit of royal news – namely the bust up between the King of morning TV and his erstwhile employers, ITV. His Royal Highhandedness, Piers Morgan, huffily…

It’s come to something when the Budget provides a welcome distraction from the relentless coverage of Covid. It turned out to be a relatively easy ride for our surefooted Chancellor. This could be down to a mostly empty House of Commons, the fact that most of his ideas had been leaked ages ago, or the inability…

Hats off to our local CCG this week and a healthy dose of common sense. Our daughter attended a church service a couple of weeks ago. This, she freely admits, was more about getting out of the house and seeing some other people, legally, than fulfilling any spiritual needs. It turned out to be fortuitous…

It has been a week of twists and turns in communications terms. Japanese Olympics Chief, Yoshiro Mori, grudgingly resigned over alleged sexist comments. He apparently complained during a meeting of the Japanese Olympic Committee early this month that talkative women tended to make meetings “drag on too long”. Meanwhile, at a Parish council meeting in…

It’s been a week of comings and goings, hellos and goodbyes. Topping the list of goings, a nation mourns as Glastonbury has been furloughed. With huge regret, but surely to no-one’s real surprise, the organisers of the performing arts mud-fest announced it would be imposing another fallow year.  Which is good news for the recovering…