Tobacco lobbyists are strongly regulated – could a ‘tobacco-style’ ban work for fossil fuel interests?
- Senior Lecturer, Communications, Media and Culture, University of Stirling
PR for dummies and despots.
Lynton Crosby is the manipulator with the Midas touch, who has a reputation for tapping into those ideas and prejudices that coarsen public life but are seemingly widely held and a ballot-box boon.
More and more countries are shining lights on lobbyists’ efforts to shape policy. For all the hope of a new politics after the Scottish indyref, the SNP government is offering a limp biscuit.
From spontaneous selfies to the spin room, the communications gurus have excelled themselves this time around
Five years ago the prime minister was elected on promises that he would clean up lobbying. The result is a big disappointment.
On both sides of the Atlantic it would appear that evidence-based policy is in jeopardy. The scientific advice that government and regulators rely upon to inform their decision-making is under attack…
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