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I am very pleased to have been taken on by SMS community business news site 160Characters to provide regular news and features to its large membership of SMS industry professionals. I welcome contacts and releases from PR companies operating in this field. Please feel free to contact me.Read More →

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It was the usual haughty performance from the Prime Minister at PMQs. Cameron looked delighted at his own ability to deftly avoid questions on child poverty and public sector suffering, as his party and the liberal democrats next to them chortled and brayed at every witty evasion. There were even a few heart-warming jokes about honourable members’ facial hair grown for Movember. Top fun! Has there even been a more potent example of being out of touch? The anger from Ed Miliband and the Labour opposition, an inoculation-strength dose of the real bad blood that has been let all over the UK, was rejected, ignored,Read More →

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Ah you have to love the French…(well you don’t have to as most people find).. For the majority of (working) people the idea of drinking at lunchtime is becoming more of a treat than a habit. The fear of returning sheepishly to the office and having to snake past colleagues to slump down at your desk, trying to avoid any contact with your pink and bleary eyes. The inevitable afternoon hangover as the short burst of tipsyness that seemed perfectly sane before subsides by three leaving you feeling wretched and unable to function at anywhere near the usual level. And in most jobs the worstRead More →

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Until I have my travel writing section properly updated (it will involve going through the journal I would write while I was sitting on some magical street corner in Vietnam, screeching through the night on a train through the Cambodian countryside, or surrounded by a sea of red flags and hate-filled banners in the protests in Bangkok) here are a couple of video’s I’ve made of my photogrpahy on Youtube. Youtube – My month in Vietnam Youtube – Travels around Cambodia Note – they have sound…  Read More →

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After many restrained but ill-felt disputes with my laptop, myself, and my internet host, benedictcooper.co.uk is now live… Feel free to have a look around – there will be regular blog posts here of my meandering thoughts on, well, the things that I’m interested in – politics, media, people, music, life, that sort of thing. And as (I sincerely hope) you’ll find from having a click through the buttons above, you can take a look through my CV and read detailed descriptions of the work I’ve already done – and the work I’m available forRead More →