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Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMay 1, 20197:48 pm14th May 2019
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Don’t follow the herd

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 25, 20197:22 am25th March 2019
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March

I went to the People’s Vote march on Saturday. It’s a long haul in a space suit from Brighton and the trains weren’t running with NASA efficiency, but I got there OK and was glad […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 17, 201910:17 am25th March 2019
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Best shop puns

I love shop puns and van puns and snack van puns. I’m not a massive pun fan generally, mostly because they seem to be created by people who find a word and then grind the […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 14, 20196:53 am5th August 2020
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My 16 Golden Rules of PR

Now available as a downloadable PDF. These rules are solely about the craft of PR, how to do it, and how to avoid some potholes and roadblocks. They’re today’s version. Tomorrow they’ll probably be different. They work for […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 13, 20198:26 am13th March 2019
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Fractal fractured politics

A fractal is an object, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Those fancy Romanesco broccoli we’ve been importing from Europe are a good example. Fractals are useful in describing […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 6, 201910:56 am11th March 2019
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Laver’s Law

Laver’s Law, well known to students of fashion, describes the story arc of a fashion trend – from ‘OMG’ to ‘Ooh, I like that’, to ‘OMG, what is he wearing?’. It was the invention of […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 5, 20191:38 pm13th March 2019
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The questions

I watched Elon Musk’s webcast of his presentation about interplanetary travel a few weeks ago. At the end there were questions from the audience. It’s always a problem at these sorts of events, handing the mic […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 5, 20191:25 pm5th March 2019
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Political jargon

A couple of years ago, I set up a service called Polifiller. It was a jargon removal tool for politicians, designed to strike a line through cliches and economies with the truth. “What I’m clear […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 5, 201912:55 pm14th March 2019
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Painting

I’ve been having a go at oil painting. Art was my favourite subject at Secondary school. Getting lost in paint or pencil and just daydreaming was the best part of the day. I’ve occasionally picked […]

Uncategorized by Hamish ThompsonMar 5, 20199:44 am
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Giant concrete hearing aids

The Greatstone Sound Mirrors, massive concrete listening devices shaped like crude ears, were built in marshland in Kent in the late 1920s as part of Britain’s national defence strategy. The ears pointed towards the European […]

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