Trevor Cook on public relations, social media and politics

Tag Archives: Keating

Will Rudd’s ’social capitalism’ fly?

Labour, and social democratic, politicians have spent the past few decades, since the bankruptcy of socialism as a workable ideology, searching for new ways to distinguish themselves intellectually from their conservative opponents while essentially cleaving to the same ideology which appeals to business and middle class constituents.
Rudd’s ’social capitalism’ to be outlined in an essay [...]

Keating right on Gallipoli

Gallipoli was a horrible, pointless disaster which generations of political, military and veteran spin doctors have conspired to glorify as some sort of noble, national adventure and ‘coming of age’. In reality, it is a sad monument to the absolute horror and absurdity of war, and the incompetence of the British. We were betrayed by [...]