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There are plenty of PR blunders to get your teeth into this week.

Guy Hands supposedly accused bankers of being a pack of dogs and Gordon Brown’s mob seem to mess up daily but the award for outstanding PR blunder (possibly for the whole of 2007) has to go to Matthew Marr, a chief press aide himself, who was overheard saying some less than polite things at an awards ceremony last week. Needless to say he is “not expected to carry on working in political PR”. Well done that man. Read the article here:

http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/768552/No-back-shamed-PRO-Marr/

Is Ratner back?

Just about every media and presentation training company out there has used poor old Gerald Ratner as an example of how NOT to do it. But it seems Gerald is turning things around and even using his catastrophic downfall as a way of promoting his new jewellery business:

http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/expansion/risk-takers/262303/gerald-ratner-is-back.thtml

It’s always good to see someone fight their way up from the bottom but do we really think he will get back to the top?