Why you should be conserving your online legacy for future generations
One of the questions most commonly asked of historians today is how the history of our times will be written. By that, people don’t mean ‘will we be described as...
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How consumer technology is creating new channels for police surveillance
When David Brennan first began cycling on Scotland’s roads, he felt unsafe. “It felt lawless,” he recalls, with motorists leaving little space for his bike while overtaking at terrifying speeds....
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The ostrich economy is heading for a reckoning
Did Gordon Brown save the world in October 2008? He famously claimed to have done so in the House of Commons in December 2008, to jeers from the opposite benches....
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Building brand awareness: Companies reveal their strategies
New research from LinkedIn reveals that any one time 95% of B2B buyers are not in the market for the thing you are selling – so while all brands want instant results, building...
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MI5 and FBI sound the alarm on online espionage with LinkedIn a prime target
Foreign spies are using fake LinkedIn profiles on an “industrial scale” to gain information about the United Kingdom’s national security, with more than 10,000 “disguised approaches” detected by MI5 in the last...
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PR experts on newsjacking: A useful practice or unethical marketing?
In a recent 2022 survey from the New Statesman Media Group, newsjacking – brands aligning with current events or cultural issues – was chosen as the least unethical marketing practice,...
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UHNWs may think differently due to their level of wealth, according to analysis
‘The rich are different from you and me,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked to Ernest Hemingway. ‘Yes,’ Hemingway shot back (or so the story goes). ‘They have more money.’ But...
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Finance and its crucial role in achieving Net Zero
As investments into environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds continue to grow (current estimates suggest more than $330bn in assets globally), it is still surprising to some that financial institutions...
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Inflation is eating away at Britain’s schools and hospitals
When the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, asked companies in February to exercise “pay restraint”, he did so because the Bank is tasked with keeping inflation low...
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Sotheby’s Marks Platinum Jubilee with Royal Exhibitions
This June, the Queen will become the first British monarch to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee after 70 years on the throne. To mark this once-in-a-lifetime special occasion, Sotheby’s is putting...