Sudden, Selective Memory Loss

Peter Brookes manages to combine Nicola Sturgeon's sudden and selection memory loss with the news that Clive Myrie is taking over as the new presenter of Mastermind.

  

Holyrood Inquiry - F.A.C.T.S. (03/03/21)

I have been wracking my brains trying to work out what FACTS stands for and think I may finally have come up with the answer.

F.anciful

A.mnesia 

C.laims 

T.hreaten 

S.turgeon

The Holyrood Inquiry has been blocked and frustrated at every turn - it's time for some straight answers to straight questions. 

 

F.A.C.T.S. - Are Chiels That Winna Ding! (02/03/21)

I came across this ScotGov health poster at a bus shelter the other day.

Has there ever been a worse campaign slogan than FACTS? - it's too long, too complicated and too clever by half. 

More to the point Scotland is not paying attention as there were another 715 new Covid cases in yesterday with a positivity rating of 6.6%.

Seems like the Scottish Government is just too stubborn to admit when something's not working and go back to the drawing board by developing a new, more imaginative, more engaging comms strategy.

 

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