Keith Hann - Why Oh Why?

The collected wit, wisdom and inconsequential ramblings of the only columnist in the Newcastle Journal who has never been ranked among the Most Influential People in the North East.

Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Nothing new to see here: move along

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“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under th...
Wednesday, 16 September 2015

So long, and thanks for all the fish

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“Well, he had a good innings,” we mutter to the bereaved after the coffin has trundled away at the crematorium, or as we attempt to sustain ...
Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Refugees welcome?

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There are many excellent reasons for not attempting a column on the refugee/migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East. For a start, my ...
Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Rejoice! School's back from summer!

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Today is a true red letter day in the Hann household. Festal garments will be worn, jigs danced, barrels broached and bells rung. Because ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

The Millwall FC of British retailing

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I have a sneaking admiration for companies whose approach to public relations mirrors that of Millwall football supporters: “No one likes us...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

The good old days of State monopolies and Michael Foot

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We all love a good moan about how everything used to be so much better in the old days. No one more so than farmers, who are currently up ...
Wednesday, 29 July 2015

How not to do public relations

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What does public relations have in common with speaking French, swimming and making love? Simply that I have a perfectly sound theoretical...
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Keith Hann is a serial quitter: professionally as a historian (the last days of the British Empire), then an investment analyst (the last days of the British food industry) and finally as a financial public relations consultant (the last days of pretty much any company that was deluded enough to hire him). In each case he packed it in just when there might have been some chance of making a few quid out of it. Then there is his personal life score: engagements 4, marriages 1. For the last few years Keith has been indulging himself as a hobby journalist. It seems unlikely that he will ever make a living out of this. And if he ever shows signs of making it Big, his resignation will be going straight into the post. In November 2007 Keith started blogging (a) to take the mickey out of the genre, (b) because a misguided friend told him that it was the ideal way to secure his Big Break as a writer, and (c) to chronicle the final days of a dying breed of solitary English curmudgeon. Nothing remarkable about any of that, except that it somehow convinced a beautiful, funny young woman that she had finally met the man of her dreams. As we always say Up North, there’s nowt so queer as folk.
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