Crisis communications, whether political or corporate, have changed massively in recent years. Twenty-four hour rolling news, blogs and now Twitter mean that speed is critical, and leaving a vacuum - even for a few hours - can see a story escalate rapidly beyond manageable means.

Spin is an anachronistic, meaningless and negative term. So with the world starting to recognise the long-term value of good communications, isn't it time we put the spin to bed for good?

The policy pronouncements and the language used to make them do not merely demonstrate contempt for nurses or teachers or the unemployed - they demonstrate contempt for almost every voter in the country (including most of the people who supported coalition parties at the last election).

Department for Education staff repeatedly destroyed official government correspondence, it has been reported. According to the Financial Times (FT)...

Downing Street insisted today that David Cameron's former director of policy complied with rules on business appointments when he took on work for a l...

I don't remember the same fascination back in January, when George Osborne gave a nearly identical interview to the BBC defending the unexpected shrinking of the economy, giving exactly the same answer several times in three minutes.