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In the first lesson after I started in the Sixth Form at my school, our form teacher announced: “You are now all adults, so you should be treated like adults...

A long time ago I was given two pieces of advice. 1. Don’t attend a conference unless you are a speaker; 2. If you aren’t speaking, always ask a question. In...

In the deep recesses of my record collection I have a 12-inch EP called “Tearing Up The Plans” by a band called 23 Skidoo. This early-1980s slab of agit-funk...

An Englishman’s home is his castle. For the last few weeks it has been our isolation ward, office, schoolroom, gym, craft centre, disco and performance space...

My 18-year-old can’t believe his luck. School is cancelled – probably for the rest of his life – and he won’t have to spend a most of May and half of June si...

(updated to take in additional banned words) The great philosopher David Byrne said in the seminal Talking Heads song Psychokiller “You're talking a lot, but...

Take a trip on any of the UK’s many motorways and start counting how many cars with only one passenger and how many lorries you see. The number will quickly ...

Should you advise your client to lie? Of course, the answer is “No”. But with the success of one mendacious campaign for Leave, and the resounding victory of...

Its over a year since RBS first talked about launching a digital only bank with the brand name Bó. At the time I visualised a branding meeting in which a cyn...

Labour has accused the BBC of bias after it ran a 2016 film of Boris Johnson laying a wreath at the cenotaph rather than Sunday’s shambolic performance. But ...

In February I said that the question of whether the UK onshore oil and gas industry would be able to frack for gas was on the back-burner (sorry) until Brexi...

It’s just over two years since I branched out on my own. At the end of a frenetic June – initially frustrating but in the end glorious (like the weather) – I...

I have been watching the car crash that has been Change UK with interest – personally, as this was a movement I did want to support, and professionally, as i...

The obituaries for Theresa May’s brief premiership have been written, and the predictions made not only for who’ll be our new Prime Minister, but also for th...

I’ve never worked with James Harding, but a friend who did said he was constantly restless, often rushing off when you wanted to speak to him, and it was a s...

As a way of negotiating, Monaco-resident Sir Jim Ratcliffe pleading for the loosening of regulations aimed at protecting communities near fracking sites is u...

The abiding principle of financial communications, as policed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is that all shareholders should receive price sensiti...

I’ve been involved in communications for the energy sector for more than a decade – nuclear, fracking, wind, tidal, energy from waste and biofuels, I’ve been...

What a 2018. The first full year of The Nisse Consultancy. It has been a fascinating, varied and illuminating ride. From helping win compensation for victims...

Good communicators make their audience identify with them. They want people to put themselves in their shoes, accept that they have thought long and hard abo...