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Keith Hann

Keith Hann

Keith Hann column

By Iain LaingRead

Keith Hann column

Last May I attended a splendidly entertaining talk by my friend and client Lord Kirkham, founder and chairman of DFS, at the North East Entrepreneurs' Forum.Read

Keith Hann column

The post- Christmas profit warning from Northern Foods has become a great British tradition, like over-indulgence in plum pudding and mince pies.Read

Keith Hann column

I finally reached my tipping point just before Christmas.Read

Keith Hann

Wouldn't it be handy if we all came with a `best before' date stamped on our body, ideally in a place where we could see it without resorting to a mirror?Read

Keith Hann column

In the 22 years I've been doing my present job, I've only ever had one client who thought that his share price was too high.Read

Keith Hann column

The average life of a chief executive in a top British company is now little more than two years.Read

Keith Hann column

Who says PR is not like Ab Fab? I enjoyed a glorious 24 hours drinking champagne in celebration when Edward Heath died, with only my native parsimony holding me back from smashing my glass in the hearth each time I emptied it, while slurring `So perish all enemies of England!'Read

Keith Hann column

Tragically, i had a long-standing engagement in Northamptonshire on 17 July, which prevented me from joining my fellow Geordie exhibitionists for Spencer Tunick's latest "installation".Read

Keith Hann column

I've always had a soft spot for mavericks, which is just as well since I've spent most of my life working for them.Read

Keith Hann

These days chefs seem to be the new aristocracy. Where else would you turn for someone to sort out school meals, host a reality TV show or front a big-budget regional advertising campaign?Read

Keith Hann column

I can't imagine how I'm going to fill the huge gap left in my life by the end of this enthralling General Election campaign. Excitement in my part of Northumberland has been at fever pitch, with no fewer than three party signs to be counted on the ten-mile drive to pick up my daily Journal.Read

Keith Hann column

What grabs your attention when you pick up a paper? Apart from regular features like the excellent columns in The Journal, I tend to turn first to reports of natural disasters and man-made accidents, followed by the obituary pages.Read

Keith Hann column

Moving is becoming a theme of Journal columns, when we should be really be striving to make it your verdict on their contents.Read

Keith Hann column

They say that life begins at 40. Mine didn't. In fact that birthday marked the start of a decade of spectacular non-achievement.Read

Keith Hann column

There was an e-mail doing the rounds of the City last week that managed to add a 315-word rubric, in authentic compliance department gobbledegook, to the innocent greeting `Happy New Year'.Read

Keith Hann column

There can be little doubt that one of the great success stories of the rail industry in recent years has been the small station at Alnmouth in Northumberland.Read

Keith Hann column

I had an e-mail from a friend last week. Oh, all right, an acquaintance - I accept that I haven't got any friends. It said she was just rushing off to Budapest, which surprised me as I hadn't even got round to asking her out before she sent the excuse. But it set me thinking.Read

Keith Hann column

The great Dr Johnson ruled that "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." So I am now, officially, a blockhead.Read

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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