Jo PRComms
@joprcomms.bsky.social
NW-based comms professional.
PR/corporate comms/stakeholder/internal and external comms/writing/journalism/culture/arts/public policy/leadership here.
Personal elsewhere.
PR/corporate comms/stakeholder/internal and external comms/writing/journalism/culture/arts/public policy/leadership here.
Personal elsewhere.
100% correct.
If she had published under a male pseudonym, her work would have been prized rather than patronised. Vale Joanna Trollope
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
Her novels, including A Village Affair and Other People’s Children, drew on what Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times’
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December 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
100% correct.
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At long last, a positive shared vision for railways in the North. 🙌🏻
#BeeNetworkRail will be a game-changer for GM. 🐝
#BeeNetworkRail will be a game-changer for GM. 🐝
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
At long last, a positive shared vision for railways in the North. 🙌🏻
#BeeNetworkRail will be a game-changer for GM. 🐝
#BeeNetworkRail will be a game-changer for GM. 🐝
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So that was reason for the timing of the Gullis defection.
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
So that was reason for the timing of the Gullis defection.
“Good idea, poorly executed” could be this government’s strategic tagline.
Keir Starmer doing an email newsletter is a good idea, but the execution needs a complete overhaul:
Politics that makes a difference
Over half a million children, lifted out of poverty
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December 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“Good idea, poorly executed” could be this government’s strategic tagline.
“I’m only watching/listening because she’s awful” .
Yes, because advertisers famously only pay if the consumer is clicking approvingly.
Yes, because advertisers famously only pay if the consumer is clicking approvingly.
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
“I’m only watching/listening because she’s awful” .
Yes, because advertisers famously only pay if the consumer is clicking approvingly.
Yes, because advertisers famously only pay if the consumer is clicking approvingly.
Previous RT: delighted to see Misha Glenny as new IOT presenter. Really excellent choice.
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Previous RT: delighted to see Misha Glenny as new IOT presenter. Really excellent choice.
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Brilliant choice of Misha Glenny for In Our Time! He interviewed me at the Vienna Humanities festival a few weeks ago and he had the perfect wide-ranging interests and intelligence. As a fan of IOT I am cheering. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Misha Glenny to present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time
The much loved series returns on 15 January 2026
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Brilliant choice of Misha Glenny for In Our Time! He interviewed me at the Vienna Humanities festival a few weeks ago and he had the perfect wide-ranging interests and intelligence. As a fan of IOT I am cheering. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk front page
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk front page
Ooh, boy, this is AWFUL.
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ooh, boy, this is AWFUL.
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I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone
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Fragmented
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December 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Don’t forget to buy a book for Christmas, as present or to read amzn.eu/d/3ODCwjv
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Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
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All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
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It does feel like half the stories in the UK press only make sense if you follow Enoch1488, a peadophile on twitter who they have decided is the voice of True Working Class Brits
At some point the media’s view of their jobs changed from holding politicians accountable to active scalp hunting over relatively nothing. They’re trying to use a relentless drum-beat of less than honest narrative creation to try and force resignations in a way they never did before.
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It does feel like half the stories in the UK press only make sense if you follow Enoch1488, a peadophile on twitter who they have decided is the voice of True Working Class Brits
Absolutely fantastic piece of writing.
Who was Jeffrey Epstein?
Tanya Gold goes inside the mind of a 21st-century monster
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Tanya Gold goes inside the mind of a 21st-century monster
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November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Absolutely fantastic piece of writing.
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When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
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Editorial meeting: “Reader’s Wives sounds a bit provincial and Daily Star. What can we call it to appeal to Guardian readers in Chiswick?”
Answer:
Answer:
‘It was no longer a gift for my husband. It was all for me’: four women on how boudoir photography changed their lives
‘It was no longer a gift for my husband. It was all for me’: four women on how boudoir photography changed their lives
Now a hugely popular photographic genre, many women pay thousands to have intimate portraits taken of themselves by a professional. What do they get out of it?
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Editorial meeting: “Reader’s Wives sounds a bit provincial and Daily Star. What can we call it to appeal to Guardian readers in Chiswick?”
Answer:
Answer:
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Post Mortem, by Private Eye’s Richard Brooks, chronicling how the Post Office scandal and cover-up developed and later unravelled, is on sale now at all good bookshops.
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Post Mortem, by Private Eye’s Richard Brooks, chronicling how the Post Office scandal and cover-up developed and later unravelled, is on sale now at all good bookshops.
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
➡️ Available at: www.private-eye.co.uk/books
When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
When did broadcasters stop mentioning which party select committee chairs represent when interviewing them? If you didn’t know, you’d think they were independent commentators, and they’re just not.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
I completely accept many are v good at chairing inquiries, but they’re still sitting party MPs.
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Defying brevity.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
clapping and cheering at this like I'm watching some live sports
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Defying brevity.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
I’m not going to spend any time finding out who Olivia Nuzzi is and you can’t make me.
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’m not going to spend any time finding out who Olivia Nuzzi is and you can’t make me.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a PR piece that clashes so dramatically with my experience. My IRL discussions & social timelines are full of how deeply weird, off-putting and cultish the junkets are: interesting to feel so differently from the “voice” of PR.
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
Wicked’s real spell: The marketing of friendship
influenceonline.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever read a PR piece that clashes so dramatically with my experience. My IRL discussions & social timelines are full of how deeply weird, off-putting and cultish the junkets are: interesting to feel so differently from the “voice” of PR.
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
influenceonline.co.uk/2025/11/20/w...
Very interesting @trientertainment.bsky.social episode with Kate Phillips, BBC’s Chief Content Officer today. Highly recommended.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Very interesting @trientertainment.bsky.social episode with Kate Phillips, BBC’s Chief Content Officer today. Highly recommended.
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