Entries by Angus Nicholls

The Donald and Fake News

Alternative facts and post-truth appear to be the new characteristics of the world we inhabit. News that doesn’t support an individual or group’s stance on a certain issue is now ‘Fake News’ not to be confused with genuine Fake News. Who is the lightning rod to these concepts and to then inextricably tie them together? To […]

Spare the politics………puh-lease.

Phew, well I’m glad that’s over. 9-weeks of excruciatingly numbing political meandering that delivered………… well, not much. One of the aspects of the campaign that we have been discussing internally has been if we learnt anything. The answer is a general ‘Yes,’ however the content you could treat on a take it or leave it […]

Would you like decency with that?

Helping your organisation develop a values based culture, how Bushido shows the way Open a paper, turn on a TV, or click something that’s not bait and you will not have to turn far, wait long, or search hard to find a story about bad corporate behaviour. This is no better illustrated than by the […]

Nature Abhors a Vacuum

Vacuums are good for many things – including boiling water at zero degrees. What they are terrible for is selling a message. Prime Minister Turnbull came to the leadership of the nation in September last year, loosing the hounds of national expectation. Understandably he did nothing to dampen those expectations that had fairly, or otherwise, […]