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We live in an increasingly selfish society. There can’t be many people out there who aren’t guilty, to some extent, of pursuing their own self-interests. But what is the impact of selfishness – what will be the cost, as a result of your actions, to someone else somewhere in the world? It isn’t always easy…

Ssshhh! Take a moment to listen. Now, tell me what you can hear – that is if you can hear anything above the roar of jet engines ferrying millions of Brits to far-flung holiday destinations.Can you detect an occasional thump – followed by crowd noises, booing and cheering? It’s a bit early for footie isn’t…

To paraphrase Malcolm X: the media controls the minds of the masses; it has the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent. That (or something to that effect) was said long before the rise of the internet and rumour-hungry networks like Twitter. Though the latter examples have completely changed the way we…

It may be a heatwave outside but the College of Emergency Medicine focused our attention on colder days ahead with a warning that the NHS faces ‘walking blindfolded into another ‘winter crisis’’ if it doesn’t take action, and helpfully provided its solutions. All very reassuring until I scanned the 13 practical recommendations put forward by…

One of the proudest moments of my dad’s life to date, so he says, was getting a mortgage and being handed the keys to his first house. He is worried, however, that I may never experience this feeling. Is his worry founded in reality? Is home ownership a uniquely British obsession? Sir Edward Coke, The…

Unfortunately, in PR we tend to come across the term ‘crisis’ quite often, probably because we are always on standby in case our clients have an emergency. Crisis management is such an important tool in PR purely because a crisis has the potential to seriously damage a reputation. Think back to last year when it…

Two days, 8,000 health and care professionals, 400 exhibitors, 300 speakers; this week’s Health+Care – incorporating the Commissioning Show – was as impressive as the statistics suggest. Anyone who has visited an event at ExCel will understand the difficulty in trying to summarise one. With so many enthused and erudite speakers, picking even a handful…