Exit Patrick O’Flynn, Ukip economics spokesman, waving a mea culpa over having called Nigel Farage “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive. Sorry, that was “a fragment of a wider passage about perceptions”, says Patrick, pleading the old out-of-context defence. “Nonetheless, I should have known better than anyone what use would have been made of phrases that were both unfair and unkind.”
Well, yes. Mr O’Flynn is the former political editor of the Daily Express.
Al-Jazeera on winning form
Salute the winner of a gold prize at the Sabre awards (for Superior Achievement in Branding, Reputation and Engagement) as organised by the PR industry’s Holmes Report, and a “highly commended” in the crisis and issues category of the separate PR Week global awards. Both went to al-Jazeera for its continuing campaign to get all its imprisoned journalists freed – the citation nestling alongside the Fifa World Cup trophy tour and other superior things. At least the Arab spring has a brand winner at last.
