Book review

Do you sound like a tobacco lobbyist?

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Do the Words Give the Game Away I have just re-read Christopher Buckley’s “Thank you for Smoking” and completed “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Dr.  Siddhartha Mukherjee Pulwitzer, who is an oncologist (a doctor of Cancer). I read Dr.  Siddhartha Mukherjee Pulwitzer Prize winning book because I wanted to better … Read more

If your lobbyist does not know Cialdini, walk away

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There are a few books your lobbyist will have read. If they have not, my advice, turn around around and walk out the door. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion should be well thumbed on your lobbyist’s bookshelf.     Modelling the best  Lobbyists jobs amounts to helping their clients influence policy and law … Read more

New Labour in Europe: Leadership and Lost Opportunities

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Last night, I attended the book launch for  Anita Pollack’s  launch for her latest book on the history of the UK Labour Party in the European Parliament from 1997 to 2010. Richard Corbett MEP and Ernst Stetter from FEPS.   I had the pleasure of working for Anita in the hey days of New Labour … Read more

Discrimination is Just silly

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I am enjoying Robert Caro’s biography “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York“. I picked up the book on a recommendation.Caro is an excellent writer who has taken the craft of biography to the highest level. I’ll write a longer book summary later when I have finished, it is over 1,000 … Read more