There are few more effective ways of trashing your credibility as a spokesperson than giving a car crash interview, as the Shadow Home Secretary has learned today.  So embarrassingly poor was Diane Abbott’s performance during her interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC, that it’s being openly debated whether this veteran Labour MP should resign her position.  Most damagingly of all, her super-gaffe has occurred in the midst of the General Election campaign, making not just Ms Abbott, but also her party’s policy on policing, a laughing stock.

Among all the examples of poor treatment of airline customers, the violent dragging of passenger off a United Airlines flight on Monday, leaving him bloodied and shocked, is surely one of the most outrageous.  And perhaps one of the most expensive.  United Airlines shares have plummeted, wiping almost a billion dollars from the holding company’s value, according to The Guardian newspaper.

Whilst the main chunk of the annual ‘Awards Season’ is now done and dusted – with mistakes at the Oscars, tributes at the Brits and politics at the Globes – TNR is preparing to return to the South of France for the annual ‘Festival De Cannes’, which is often the place to discover what’s next for the real La La Land.

At last year’s festival we were busy creating content for the announcement of Magnum’s ‘Release the Beast’ range with a press conference to unveil a photo campaign by fashion photographers Mert & Marcus featuring global superstar and model Kendall Jenner.