This week in PR (28 January)
ESG, corporate and financial
- Louise Nicolson: How do you do? (26 January)
‘Pick a target: net zero by 2030. Or 2040. Carbon emissions reduced 50% by 2025. Choose carefully. But don’t stop there. It’s one thing saying you’ll reduce your carbon footprint. It’s another to explain how this will happen.’
Consulting, teams and careers
Gender, diversity and wellbeing
- Aby Hawker: Calling all trans talent – we want you! (25 January)
‘At TransMission PR we believe the only way to positively influence the narrative, when it comes to understanding gender diversity, is to ensure trans and non-binary people are an integral part of the conversation.’ - Arun Sudhaman: Podcast: Elizabeth Bananuka On Five Years Of BME PR Pros (25 January)
‘I lost a lot of client work when I started talking about diversity. No one wanted to hire me. I got trolled aggressively. I got called the N word more than 40 times on Twitter. A lot of White people were telling me I’m wrong.’ - Jessica Pardoe: Things We Can Do To Encourage Mental Health Conversations In PR (21 January)
‘In recent years, I’ve seen so many companies improving their perks, from 4-day working weeks to mental health days and prolific maternity, paternity and even paw-ternity leave. This is in no doubt due to the increased talk and need for better workplaces, and I’m proud that the PR industry is pioneering the way forward in this new way of working.’
Public and third sectors
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Politics, public affairs and public sphere
- Pearce Branigan: The Blue and the Gray (27 January)
‘With his premiership facing its most serious challenge yet, the question for weekend is whether the Prime Minister will bend to the will of the critics within his party and use the relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions to return his leadership to the vision he sold to the UK in 2019.’
- Peter Jones: Leadership on a precipice (26 January)
‘We are about to enter a new, less predictable political phase in Westminster. The landscape of decision makers and influencers looks drastically different to that of twelve months ago and anyone seeking to influence change will need to navigate it with care.’
- Arabella Moore: 2022 – a landmark year in global health? (no date)
‘By October 2021, healthcare workers had delivered more than 7 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine globally, just 10 months after the first COVID-19 vaccine received approval.’
- Stuart Thomson: The critical role of select committees (26 January)
‘The primary role of Committees in the Commons is to hold government departments to account. The inquiries they undertake can examine the spending, policies, and administration of departments.’ - Tiffany Burrows and Fraser Raleigh: Another day, another party. And another set of sore heads in No.10. (25 January)
‘The least worst option for No.10 may prove to be ripping the plaster off this week by backing the publication of the Gray report in full and hoping that the police investigations rumble on quietly in the background over the coming weeks and months without dragging the Prime Minister in personally.’
- Amelia Beale: COP President Alok Sharma outlines Presidency aims for the coming year (25 January)
‘With COP26 missing two key names at the table, China and Russia, Sharma made a clear push for the need for this year to increase the collective outcome.’
- Charlie Rattigan: Housing hold-up (24 January)
‘The Government has set an ambitious target for 300,000 new homes per year and one million new homes by 2024.’ - Beth Park: Is this last chance saloon for levelling up? (21 January)
‘This all comes back to an urgent need for Government to define what ‘levelling up’ means, in a way that people can understand, and which actually has a tangible, positive impact on their day-to-day lives.’