The Little Questions

Is comms becoming a bit too corporate?

We still spot trouble before it hits. We still know what plays in the media, what won’t land with the public, and how to read the room better than anyone else o…

Welcome to another meander through the stories, people and events that have caught our attention in the past few weeks. From creating new world championships, to doctored sweets, and the lambasted lo…

The Beatles once sang that money can’t buy you love. However, spent in the right way, and on the right thing, it would seem it can buy you the attention and potentially even adoration of thousands, n…

The world is in turmoil, so it feels like it’s the right time for the PR professionals to get involved. It also feels like the right time to use Lenin’s famous quote – "there are decades where nothin…

By rights, the fly-on-the-wall workplace documentary should have died a death the moment The Office became a hit. At that time, BBC shows like Airport, set in Heathrow, and Life of Grime about enviro…

Until the late 1980s, if the subject of engagement was raised at work, it was usually to sign a card and chuck in a quid for Terry in Accounts who’d just popped the question to Mandy in the typing po…

Trump is back. And back with a bang.

Be it old age or the fog of Covid but Little Questions had forgotten quite how discombobulating the stream of consciousness from the 47th President of the United …

2025 marks our 4th year providing hopefully useful snippets of wisdom for all things Comms, Corporate Affairs and PR-related. Given the New Year, we decided to look forward and consider who has some …

Welcome to the third annual Little Questions PR heroes and villains. This is our excuse to look back over the year that almost was and consider who nailed their comms and who jumped straight into the…

Well into our fourth year of podcasting here at The Little Questions, we’ve been fortunate to have some excellent guests visit our virtual broom cupboard and share with us a little of their wisdom. F…

In this episode we consider why it’s so difficult to define a working person (as our government is finding out) and we consider if the days of PRs doing ‘dodgy’ desk research is over.

We'll discuss t…

It would seem that many of the ills which today befall the UK are apparently linked to how productive or otherwise we are at work, individually, and collectively as a nation. Apparently we're just no…

It’s that time of year again. The sunshine grows weaker, birds and non-Doms fly south for warmer climes and the political parties gather in seaside towns to moan about the state of the nation and eac…

About 15 years ago, frustrated by his inability to persuade his leaders at the time to use real language when communicating financial results, Apella's Andrew Brown tried to find other firms that off…

‘Content is king’ has been our clarion call on many a podcast. What we often leave out is the equally important point of how you say something, as well as when you say it and where.

As Corporate Af…

We’ve talked about the many great things that Comms and Corporate Affairs professionals bring to an organisation – clarity of message, bringing the outside in, creativity and so on. However, one area…

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