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Globalisation widens the gap between Them and Us

IF you were born in 1954, as I was, it is bad enough to start feeling your age. It is even worse when you begin to identify with people for whom D-Day is still a vivid memory.Read

Still waiting for the real axe to fall

THIS column is the unexpected result of news management. It is also like one of those scenes from the TV news of children playing in the snow, though obviously a lot less fun.Read

Little point hoping for retribution

I WORKED in the City for more than 25 years but never received a mega-bonus, and could have been relied upon to invest it unwisely if I had.Read

How to save clients from themselves

ONE of the saddest things about PR is the fact that clients hardly ever read newspapers. They just look at the headlines and pictures. And, unfortunately, neither of those is contributed by the journalists we keep cultivating over expense account lunches.Read

Dazzling and incisive column

IT’S funny how sticky adjectives can be. As sticky, as Blackadder once put it, as the time that Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.Read

Lottery for mega-rich needed

WHAT was the greatest achievement of John Major’s government? Against admittedly feeble competition from Black Wednesday, the Maastricht Treaty and the cones hotline, the answer surely has to be the creation of the National Lottery.Read

Keith Hann, PR consultant

Recognise hard work and reward success

MOST of the seriously rich people I know left school at the earliest opportunity, with minimal academic qualifications.Read

Keith Hann column

I'd hoped to spin a column out of my attendance at last month's Entrepreneurs Forum in Gateshead.Read

Keith Hann column

I'm going to make a shocking confession: I've been a member of the Conservative Party for 35 years.Read

Keith Hann column

What do hand guns, radiator valves, lawn mowers and fondant fancies have in common?Read

Keith Hann column

Sometimes pr really sticks in my throat. Putting aside the totally obvious (anything involving the Government or Sir Richard Branson), I find I have developed an aversion to spokespeople for wind farm developers.Read

Keith Hann column

I started work (if you can call it work) in financial PR in 1983, the year of Mrs Thatcher's post-Falklands electoral landslide. There followed three years of absolutely frenetic activity helping to bring companies to the stock market.Read

Keith Hann column

Are you feeling depressed now the after-effects of Christmas have settled around your waist and the bills have started to pour in?Read

Keith Hann

Some of my best friends are retailers, so it pains me to think of their little faces crumpling in disappointment as they unwrap their December profit and loss accounts. But it's like denying that wailing fat kid his third Whopper. You just know it has to be done.Read

Keith Hann column

Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, me for a start, though I've never had the energy to do much about it.Read

Keith Hann column

Take a look at the chief executive's handbook.Read

Keith Hann column

I had an unusually full and interesting response to my last contribution in this space.Read

Keith Hann column

Business people tend to approach PR consultants for one of two reasons. Either they believe that their company is misunderstood and undervalued by the outside world, and want to raise their profile in the media to address this, or they know that what they do is understood all too well, and want to keep it out of the papers at all costs.Read

Keith Hann column

I spent May Day plotting the downfall of international labour and devising a foolproof scheme to become a multi-millionaire. Ideally one that would command a bit more public support than my last brilliant plan to open a whisky distillery in Coquetdale.Read

Keith Hann column

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Author Profile

Keith Hann runs his own PR company which he describes as a full service and consultancy based on a bleak Northumberland hilltop, staffed almost entirely by Border terriers, yet charging popular City of London prices. If he can summon up the energy and some suitable inspiration, Keith writes a column in The Journal on the first Wednesday of every month.

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