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Another threat to charities’ freedom of speech

January 11, 2015

Want to sneak out a threat to freedom of speech in the UK? Worried about the backlash from charities and campaigners? Not to fear, Friday December 19th (or “fall-over Friday”) was a perfect time to bury some bad news. Or at least, this is presumably what was being discussed at the Charity Commission when deciding how to deal with […]

Re-launch or re-hash?

May 8, 2012

You’d have thought that political spinners would learn? Gordon Brown did them almost quarterly, Ed Miliband has done a fair few, the Big Society has tried at least six. Billed as re-launches, but in effect just re-hashes of the same content. And today we see the coalition proudly jumping on the re-launch bandwagon. That’s not […]

Big Society to launch… for the sixth time

January 3, 2012

A challenge which often comes down from Ministers to communications professionals in the public sector is how to get a policy which has already been announced some more public attention. Generally you could pull it off a couple of times. But, undeterred by continuing defections, the Big Society is rumoured to be gearing up for […]

Organisations line up to run from the Big Society

December 19, 2011

This weekend saw another key supporter of the Big Society defect. Following on from a mauling by the Public Accounts Committee, Sir Stephen Bubb, head of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, claimed that Big Society communications had failed and the brand is broken. Speaking to the FT, he said: I think the […]

A toxic link between social enterprise & Big Society?

December 2, 2011

One of the more controversial questions from yesterday’s Guardian Q&A on social enterprises and the media, was what impact their association with the Big Society has had. And how toxic that association has been. Looking at Google search trend data for the last two years, we can see that after David Cameron appropriated social enterprises […]

A fifth launch for the Big Society

May 22, 2011

David Cameron will launch the Big Society AGAIN tomorrow, according to the Independent. It’s possible I may have missed another one, but I make this the fifth launch of the Big Society. Yet, perhaps, positive signs are starting to emerge from the Big Society world. Almost a year ago, I set out five communications challenges the […]

Taking the BS out of the Big Society

July 19, 2010

After a lack of interest the first time around, the Big Society was finally launched to the consumer today. The anticipation was immense – the Twittersphere was groaning under the #bigsociety trend and the months of preparation and planning by Big Society agitators was finally to pay off. Except it still hasn’t. Not really. It […]