Jo PRComms
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Jo PRComms
@joprcomms.bsky.social
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NW-based comms professional. PR/corporate comms/stakeholder/internal and external comms/writing/journalism/culture/arts/public policy/leadership here. Personal elsewhere.
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Its genuinely exhausting for everyone involved that the cycle is
1- BNP style policy gets announced
2- Labour comms say something like well yes but also no....
3-Labour MPs and others clearly have a freak out about it behind the scenes
4-Labour comes out with a clearer condemnation of said policy
NEW: Labour condemn Tory plan to strip people of indefinite leave to remain:

“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.

“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities."
Been a bit behind on my listening, but caught up onlast few weeks of @beebwatch.bsky.social while batch cooking yesterday PM.

There’s another one out today, shining a vital light on broadcasting.

By people who love the industry, but also hold it to account.

podfollow.com/beebwatch/view
Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch
Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...
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“I must introduce you to Richard – he doesn’t have ADHD either”

From the new Private Eye, out now.
I can easily see my elderly parents (who are more tech-savvy and together than most in mid 80s) get bamboozled and panicked by it: it’s just a mad solution to an idiotic bureaucratic nonsense. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t got a “ nurses/doctors/care great, but admin is totally broken” story.
Am absolutely open mouthed at this.
The most cost-effective improvement to how people feel about the NHS would be to improve the way it communicates (and I know it’s a multi-headed monster). One-sided is exactly right atm. See this bonkers letter I had over a year ago, headed “You have an appointment” (“…not a genuine appointment”)…
Yea, worked there for years and I always described it as very small c conservative, but never big C conservative or Tory.
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This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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The Hack (ITV) is a mess, isn’t it? I’m fascinated by the subject and so if I cant get behind it, then…

A mess of different plots, different style choices and the wrong perspectives (imo).

If you need to constantly talk to camera to explain the story, you’ve lost lots of the audience.
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I've been doing talks on state of UK news industry for organisations* and they keep saying it's so hard to get a message distributed, let alone talked about? Mass audience gone to video, old media won't carry stuff, Twitter decaying without an equivalent replacement.

*If you want to book me, email!
I’m not cynical about Leveson. I strongly believe Leveson 2 should have happened (and was more important than Leveson 1 if anything) but its complicated, thorny, messy thing with a much less defined goodie/baddie line than Mr Bates v Post Office has, eg
The Hack (ITV) is a mess, isn’t it? I’m fascinated by the subject and so if I cant get behind it, then…

A mess of different plots, different style choices and the wrong perspectives (imo).

If you need to constantly talk to camera to explain the story, you’ve lost lots of the audience.
LinkedIn brain is the funniest brain.
inspiring 💗💖
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“… this story has never been fully told.” Really? There’s an *entire chapter* in my book with WAY more granular detail on Radiohead/In Rainbows (see extract in The Guardian). At least Novel came up with a searingly original title for their podcast episode. Oh…

www.theguardian.com/music/2019/f...
I’d say a day release apprenticeship as long as she works with a stylist/salon who have proven commitment to training and getting juniors through. You need to learn more than cutting/colouring hair, and I think salon apprenticeships do that better. Caveat: my knowledge is 15/20 years later
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Meet the Judges of the 2026 Women’s Prizes!

A warm welcome to: Julia Gillard, @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social, Salma El-Wardany, Cariad Lloyd and Annie Macmanus, and Thangam Debbonaire, Roma Agrawal, Nicola Elliott, Nina Stibbe and Nicola Williams.

#WomensPrize
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feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech
www.nytimes.com
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This is not just about me or my book. This is about respecting and valuing actual journalism. Our ideas, our contacts, our ethics, our reputations, our hard work – that’s how stories like those in my book first come to light. If you don’t respect or value any of that, what do you respect and value?
A post about Novel Audio, Chris Atkins and their podcast on EMI and Terra Firma.
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One way that Bluesky today feels like 2010 Twitter: It has an antisemitism problem. There are thankfully plenty of people willing to call it out, but lots of accounts cheering on or justifying terrorism in the last 24 hours.