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David Yelland

@davidyelland.bsky.social
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Founded Kitchen Table Partners, edited newspapers in London and New York. Presenter ‘When it Hits the Fan’ @BBCRadio4, @BBCSounds. @ManCity Blue.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
My favourite pithy politics post in a very long time. Bang on the money.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Today I am celebrating 20 years of sobriety with Max and Lulu, who have no memory of their daddy ever drinking. #Miracles #Gratitude #Recovery 2️⃣0️⃣🙏🎉
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Can Jony Ive & Sam Altman use PR to lift the human spirit? + Macron's Slap Hitter + Elon Musk, the ghost of Roy Cohn; denial ain't just a River in Egypt. We're up NOW on @BBCSounds.
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When It Hits the Fan - 'Humanity Deserves Better' - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis examine the hype around something that doesn't exist. Yet.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Jony Ive and @sama's $6.4B AI mega launch: mere PR or a cause of hope for all our futures? Listen in, 'When It Hits the Fan', @BBCRadio4 4pm UK and then @BBCSounds, @Spotify, @Apple. 🙏@OpenAI youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms?...
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Is banning the media a gateway drug for could-be Robert Maxwells? Insight from the front line + Could a Teach First or Police Now campaign work to boost the care sector? + How ideas might save the undergrad degree at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School....
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When It Hits the Fan - You're Banned! - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis examine whether banning a journalist is ever a good idea.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
You're barred! Does banning media ever work for the powerful? Did it work for Nottingham Forest banning Gary Neville? Did it for Maxwell? Or for Fergie? When It Hits the Fan: @BBCRadio4 at 4pm, on @BBCSounds or wherever you get your podcasts.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Enjoyed shooting breeze on influencer culture and what we have learned about how opinion moves around the media multiverse with the excellent Amol Rajan and the equally excellent Ed Vaizey in wake of the conscious uncoupling of Tim Davie and @GaryLineker. 💔 Do listen, The Today Podcast. Up Now.
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The Today Podcast - Gary Lineker, the BBC and celebrity influencers - BBC Sounds
Amol reflects on Lineker's career as his MOTD run ends.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Can Uber persuade the British to ride driverless? Is Gary Lineker a braver communicator than those who remain silent...? Plus: Inside the PR freebie in the age of Trump's Qatari 747. @BBCSounds or wherever you get tour podcasts.
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When It Hits the Fan - Robotaxis: Look, no hands! - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis get under the bonnet of how to PR driverless cabs.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Per NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!
Chloe Atkins & @chloe_aatkins
NOW: Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk has been released from the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana.
As Ozturk walked out of the detention center, she said "thank you" to the press with her hands over her heart. Ozturk declined to speak, saying, "Thank you so much. I am a little bit tired, so I will take some time to rest."
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Up Now: Understanding how trauma crowds out strategy in Prince Harry’s PR, M&S’ cyber-crisis, a brand running on goodwill, Michelle Obama scotches those divorce rumours & a tribute to David Attenborough: ⁦‪@BBCSounds‬⁩ or wherever you get your pods.
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When It Hits the Fan - Prince Harry's bombshell interview - BBC Sounds
David and Simon examine whether Prince Harry's interview was a spectacular PR own goal.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Is PR just 'ultra processed words' and, if so, how do we return to a less toxic diet? This week on Fan Hitters....
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When It Hits the Fan - PR is a virus - BBC Sounds
David Yelland is joined by PR guru Phil Elwood, who blames their industry for everything.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Cyber attacks, such as the one on M&S, need to be viewed like kidnapping: information is purposefully managed out of the media by PR not put in by PR - which would aid the criminal gangs.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"Do you even own a black suit?"
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
UP NOW! 🇨🇳 v 🇺🇸 Is China beating America in the global war for hearts and minds? + 🐀 Rats in Brum + 🚀 Why was Jeff Bezos shocked when his phallic willy-wave met PR scorn? ⁦‪@BBCSounds‬⁩ or wherever you get your podcasts. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...htt
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When It Hits the Fan - China's meme warfare, rats and rockets - BBC Sounds
David and Simon discuss if China is out-PRing the US, rats' media appeal and Jeff Bezos.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2025
this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan found herself in the Oval Office this week not for a one-on-one meeting with President Trump, but an appearance before the press corps. She temporarily shielded herself from the cameras.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Quick, everyone: Be UNCOOL.
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a man with a mustache is talking on a red telephone and says i 'm always home
ALT: a man with a mustache is talking on a red telephone and says i 'm always home
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
An astonishing lack of humility from Niall Ferguson here. In full infallibility mode.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'll raise you this Magnolia 👀
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is horrific. An innocent man is being held in prison in a foreign country simply for being brown. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
What have I learned so far at #Anthropy25? Blessed are the connectors of people for how else can we solve the problems the world faces...? ... so thank you John O'Brien... 👏🙏 @anthropyuk.bsky.social
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Up now on @BBCsounds: Should Heathrow’s boss have gone to bed? Was his Today Programme interview a car crash? Why is National Grid’s PR better than the airport’s? Inside a MegaCrisis… ✈️🔥
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When It Hits the Fan - Heathrow special: inside the crisis - BBC Sounds
David Yelland and Simon Lewis discuss the PR optics of sleeping CEOs.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There's something very "wife of a 19th century colonial administrator" about Usha Vance being sent to Greeland to meet the natives.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025
Circling back on this…
Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'm not Mystic Meg, though she was once part of my team, but how many Nobel laureates would queue up to hand BACK their own prizes if Donald Trump did win one? Anyone thought that far ahead?
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I am thrilled to be speaking, and listening, at #Anthropy25. Join me at next week’s national gathering… Anthropy runs from 26-28 March at The Eden Project in Cornwall. @anthropyuk.bsky.social
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
'Musk must quit Tesla...' Ross Gerber on @BBCNewsnight saying precisely what we say in this week's When It Hits the Fan, do listen on @BBCSounds
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Tim Berners-Lee's column in the FT earlier this week should resound around the world. We could free our data from the tech billionaires who have used it to create a world where lies rule, hatred is promoted, truth dies and hope fades. We can do better.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is absolutely hilarious. Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK. Clearly didn't read it. Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Camila Batmanghelidjh was a good and kind woman. Her friends are seeking to rescue her reputation after her death - proof that legacy PR matters, proof of proper friendship. I think she was wrongly blamed, wrongly vilified and am proud to have known her.
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Celebrities back legal fight to clear Kids Company’s name
Judicial review challenge to a damning report by the Charity Commission on the company founded by the late Camila Batmanghelidjh
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Why did Thames Water think a fly-on-the-wall was a good idea? ➕ Inside Tesla’s Elon Musk crisis ➕ Why the Villa is good PR for Prince William.
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When It Hits the Fan - Thames Water’s PR gamble, Tesla backlash and William’s Villa in The Sun - BBC Sounds
David and Simon discuss the Thames Water documentary, Elon Musk and Prince William.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Prince William passion for @AVFCOfficial, his SEVEN pages in today’s @TheSun is PR genius, he and the Palace using football as soft power, superb for the paper too. Really interesting moment.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Keir Starmer has, quite suddenly, conquered the Daily Mail. This, coupled with his @TheNewsAgents interview completes the best tactical PR week so far.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Often stop at Little Gidding on way back from visiting the north, better than the A1 Services, a reminder in this tiny Church, beloved by Eliot, that America produces very great men and women - worth remembering right now - and "All manner of thing shall be well." 🇺🇸🇬🇧
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump is three months in, it is, in so many ways, falling apart. A populist President blames the people for boycotting Tesla and selling its stock. Sad.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
'Elbows Up' - How Canada's Mark Carney, ex of this Parish, is finding the words to fight Trump PLUS The King's challenge as he navigates being Head of State of the UK AND Canada PLUS The role of denial, pride and vulnerability in the creation of crisis and the handling of it by powerful men.
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When It Hits the Fan - Carney’s Canada v Trump, Abrdn’s U-turn and Ambassador Suzuki - BBC Sounds
David and Simon discuss Canada’s PR fightback, a reverse ferret and Japanese diplomacy.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Today’s New York Times (@maggieNYT et al) superb on Musk Vs Bannon and how Trump is increasingly failing to manage the two egos. Important. This is new.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
To describe Dorothy Hepworth as just “another painter” rather misses the entire Spencer/Preece story, does it not? Maybe Januszczak was badly edited.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Whole world is in daily trauma as we wake to Trump, Musk & Vance, if the three had a spiritual programme or any degree of self-awareness or humility the world might instantly transform. But ketamine, in one case, crowds out the spirit like alcohol and narcissism do too.🙏
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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
i hadn’t seen a photographer capture the DOGE team so well until now www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
James Graham is a genius. His latest play at the Young Vic may be his best yet. In tears at the end. Theme is restorative justice and a pleasure to meet Jacob, pic 2, the real person whose killing of another man with a single punch is the basis of the story. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.
Try to see this play
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Paul Holmes @provokepaul.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Europeans are being much more realistic about what's happening in America than any US media.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
SPECIAL EDITION: How Trump curated THAT moment in the Oval, the words that Zelensky COULD deploy after the overnight news and inside the British mission to use The King to win hearts and minds. ⁦‪@BBCSounds‬⁩
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When It Hits the Fan - Trump, Zelensky, the King and Mummy Pig - BBC Sounds
David and Simon discuss the US and Ukraine, a wise use of royal PR and Peppa Pig's news.
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Masterstroke! The news just breaking that Zelensky is off to meet the King is, by some margin, the best British PR move since.... well.... forever?
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I proudly lived in the United States a decade, Green Card Permanent Resident. Feel embarrassed for America and all my friends there.... but never give up on the USA....
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Friends of the late Mike Lynch are asking the PM why we still have a one-way extradition treaty with the United States, which grants DoJ effective right to pursue our citizens (unless they are called Andrew Tate)...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
just an all-timer of b2b posts
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So… let’s get this right… China can own water suppliers in northern UK (and maybe soon all of London) UAE can own our ports, Qatar slices of the City but Abu Dhabi cannot be allowed to have…., er, ITV……or Telegraph….. which, by the any, nobody else seems to want….
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David Yelland @davidyelland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Can smart PR counter Trump's disinformation bubble? ➕Peter Mandelson's 'interesting speech' doorstep quote ➕Our take on what Jason Knauf, Simon Case and Chief Whip Simon Hart did next.
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When It Hits the Fan - PR in the disinformation bubble, Mandelson’s doorstep PR and breaking cover - BBC Sounds
David and Simon discuss lines in the sand, when to say nothing and spilling the beans.
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