by Nadine Dereza | Dec 23, 2014 | Tips and Ideas
This year, we’ve sat through Gone Girl, Night Crawler and Gravity, but nothing made such breathless and squirm-inducing viewing as The Apprentice winner – Mark Wright’s relentless discomfort when facing three perfectly nice-looking people who may or may not have...
by Nadine Dereza | Dec 10, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
As the PS Programmes team likes to keep its finger on the pulse, we allowed Tom York to slip free from his PR and social media handcuffs and attend the Enterprise Nation #GovernmentExchange event this week. There are a few things we have been discussing that we think...
by Nadine Dereza | Nov 27, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
The inhabitants of PS Programmes Towers have had entrepreneurship and freelancing on their minds of late: Tom has been to the National Freelancers Day event at LSO St Luke’s, and Ian has been talking about the ups, downs and sideways of being a freelance writer to...
by Nadine Dereza | Nov 11, 2014 | Tips and Ideas
R H Tawney: The WEA’s business ‘…is not to organise classes for whom, in the circumstances of today, it may for one reason or another be easiest to attract. It is to create a demand for education in individuals and bodies who at the moment may be unconscious of...
by Nadine Dereza | Oct 27, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
Monica Lewinsky’s speech to the Forbes Under 30 Conference this week coincided with a trip by Ian Hawkins, one of the PS Programmes team to New York City. Lewinsky, even today, is something of an enigma. A public figure – who hasn’t spoken in public for over a...
by Nadine Dereza | Oct 12, 2014 | Live Events, Presenting, Tips and Ideas
This serious-minded and business-oriented blog may be your first port of call for thoughtful discourse on the current trends in communications and public affairs, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know how to let our hair down, and this week, we had a great...