mark perkins @thatmarkperkins Twitter profile

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

8 years

The worst placed ad placement by country mile

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@thatmarkperkins

2 years

My dad died this morning. He bloody loved QPR and made the first home game of the season last year, despite illness and was so pleased to be there after lockdown. Every game I go to in future I will expect to see him by my side.

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7 months

In his absolute prime, Stan Bowles sold a story to a tabloid that he was retiring and pocketed a few grand for a night down the dog track. The day they ran the story, he announced he was coming out of retirement.

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@thatmarkperkins

8 years

Aphex Twin album teaser

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4 years

QPR 96th minute equaliser. Saturday is saved!

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

I want QPR to go up, to see this team and fans achieve something they deserve, but perversely perish the thought of being in the money soaked Premier League again. Just simply don’t care for it. The Championship is the best league in the world.

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@thatmarkperkins

6 years

@etisalat @ManCity @Cityarabia Truly, truly awful corporate bullshit lens view of football. This is why the modern game is rancid.

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@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Didn’t do his timesheets.

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@prweekuknews

4 years

Chuka Umunna to leave Edelman – after nine months: #pr

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

This is typical Surrey because ‘SOLD’ is common and lowers the tone.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

6 years

My wife didn’t really get the nuances of the Valentines card she gave me this evening 😳🍆🍆👬

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Today my mum received a letter of condolence from @AndySintonQPR and everyone at QPR, plus an invitation for us to go to a game in memory of my dad. Thank you @qpr .

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

@asatarbair Due to his paranoia Stalin purged the Red Army of thousands of its best and most experienced officers, executing them and many of their families, leaving it in a mess for the German invasion (also, see the Finnish debacle). Zhukov - lucky to survive that - is the military genius.

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

Form table since Charlie Austin rejoined QPR in January when we were 3 points above the drop zone.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

8 months

Just landed in Paris after a terrifying, aborted 9pm attempt to land at Gatwick. Zero visibility - sat next to the win and couldn’t see the wing - with the plane being thrown up, down and sideways. Started hoping media wouldn’t pick a bad photo of me for the victims gallery.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Mila Perkins arrived yesterday at 10am. She’s perfect and I’m a very proud dad.

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@thatmarkperkins

8 months

Dinner in Mayfair. Posh woman dining next to me, talking to her friend ‘I went to my first football game yesterday. Queens Park. I’ve never heard language like it. And they don’t just shout at the referee, they wanted to kill him.’ She paused and then said ‘I rather loved it’

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

@Patriotprime117 @DanScavino Played golf, eat burgers, watched cable, Tweeted. No wall, China booming, economy in freewill, lost the House, lost the Senate and lost the Presidency and most Rona deaths in the world. You must be exhausted from all that winning.

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

The irony is that when we created this in 2013, the then social manager at GAME mutinied and point-blank refused to put it out as ‘it doesn’t fit with the strategy and we don’t have space in the calendar’. It’s lasted longer than he did.

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3 years

The 100 day countdown is on for #Christmas2021 !🎄 Should we bring back the Christmas Tinner? #BringBackChristmasTinner

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

At the Ivors. Here’s me, @PMtStevens @Here_is_Sam @shakira and @thecure in no particular order.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

7 years

@realDonaldTrump Miller was like a malfunctioning robot in Westworld

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

My Dad is 82. He is in hospital having just undergone surgery this morning. And he’s just invited me connect on LinkedIn.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

9 months

It'll be the 25th anniversary tomorrow of when I ruined Christmas Day by getting the entire family - including elderly aunties, one with dementia - stoned out of their minds on hashish. This was my my dad's idea, but I overloaded the brownies with catastrophic consequences...

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

My dad @arthurjperkins starts chemotherapy tomorrow morning. He has a fight on his hands but, as he consistently points out, he is an old soldier. Here he is with Mick Jones at @QPR . He hopes to be back at the Rangers in time for the promotion run-in. Good luck, dad 👊

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

@nachosarah @trevorbmbagency The Spite Girls

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Taken on a crisp spring day on Feb 29, moments after a goal against Birmingham City - the same fixture today. Little did any of us realise then that would be the last time we’d gather in Loftus Road. I really miss QPR match days

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

My first game back at QPR since dad died. His name is still on his old seat so we are together in spirit.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Just seen a demanding pitch brief that stipulated : - 12 month strategy - Disruptive news gen - Social ideas - Sampling opportunities - Trade PR - Founder profiling Budget? £2k pm This nonsense has to stop. They want every item on the menu with a prawn cocktail budget.

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@thatmarkperkins

4 years

@stuartpstevens @DonaldJTrumpJr

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Today we say goodbye to my dad Arthur. Teddy boy, soldier, P&H van driver, salesman then Sales Director, QPR fan, conservationist and everyone’s best mate. Good looking fella too. ❤️

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Found this photo I took of Torres Blancas in Madrid back in 2014. Beautiful and Brutal. ⁦ @BrutalHouse ⁩

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

My dad isn’t in good health at all. We’ve been going to the Rangers together on a Saturday since 1984 and have waited since the last league game in Feb 2020 to go back. He probably isn’t well enough to go and should be resting, but is determined we go today. It means everything

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Good morning to all my new follower @shakira stans 👍

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

It’s my dad’s 83rd birthday today. We can’t go out for dinner, to a show or to the Rangers as he is still undergoing his intensive chemotherapy. So I’ve donated instead to ⁦ @MoveTheWorldUK ⁩ and ⁦ @royalmarsden ⁩. Happy birthday Arthur.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

8 years

@JuliaHB1 Rightly or wrongly, we walked out on the family. We gave up rights to be part of it to go it alone.

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@thatmarkperkins

8 years

@JuliaHB1 We voted out so we could make our own choices and political decisions but don’t like it when other govts make theirs?

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

That really is Timmy Mallet providing analysis over on GB News.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

12 years

Praise to the 6 year old girl who told Pippa Middleton at her awful book launch event yesterday: "I hate princesses. I want to be a vampire"

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

No points for guessing what Keith Stroud would make of this.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Glenn Roeder. I watched in awe on TV as he lead QPR out in the FA Cup final. My first ever encounter and memory of football. Then close up at Loftus Road the next year. He may be gone, diminished by age and illness, but in memory he’ll always be that figure from 1982.

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@thatmarkperkins

6 years

Idea you pitched to client vs Idea client now wants to do 'following internal discussions'

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

Me today when an ad agency says their billboard has huge PR potential

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

6 years

Taken some satisfaction from losing a pitch earlier this year on the grounds that the winning agency had an idea 'that would fly on social' to see it has had 127 views and 1 like in a week.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Tribute to my dad in the @QPR programme today. @Juliebishopqpr has been fantastic.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

Gone out for my jab. A nice lady on admissions queried my date of birth and said I don’t look anything like 47. Now THAT is what I call a booster.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Don’t think QPR fans have rejoiced at off the field events so much since the ‘No point deduction’ verdict from the FA to confirm promotion in 2011.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

It’s 6 months tomorrow since my dad Arthur died. Here’s a thread on how I managed to cope with the loss of my best mate. First, the pain subsides to something more manageable, reflective as you hold onto the positive memories and attributes of a life well lived.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Can everyone stop calling a day off ‘annual leave’ like they are a tank commander or something. 'I’m on annual leave tomorrow’. Eh? No you are not, its a day off. Pull yourself together.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

Well, there’s a turn up for the books.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

6 years

My personal trainer just cancelled on me after returning from holiday. He’s really motivational and inspiring 🤦‍♂️

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

Got a Peloton bike this week and vowed to do a routine every evening. Here’s how its been going: Day 1 - Advanced Beginner, 30 mins Day 2 - HIIT, 30 mins Day 3 - Large chicken kebab and chips, 15 mins

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@thatmarkperkins

9 years

@WATNCelebrity @TheWorldOfFunny Who’d have ever guessed that he was a stoner.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

6 years

Bob Marley was a QPR fan! According to my colleague who worked with the legendary music publicist and QPR fan Rob Partridge, RP used to take Bob to QPR matches in the mid-70s. The only team Bob cared for.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

QPR fans in August and QPR fans in May

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@thatmarkperkins

5 years

When two PR brainstorm cliches collide: ‘Let’s float it down the Thames’ and ‘let’s do something with Stormzy..’. . So now Stormzy has been floated down the Thames! Great work lads👌

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5 years

Walking past Tower Bridge and Stormzy came out on a raft and started rapping?😅

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3 years

Been invited to pitch by a sports brand AND being paid a big fee upfront for the time spent we'll invest on the response. Should be the norm. Brands increasingly write vague briefs, yet demand rounds of new insights and ideas from 5+ agencies = free hours, intel and effort.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

5 years

I hope that QPR are doing their hardest today to get Nakhi Wells on loan from Bristol City. The day is young.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

6 years

I actually fucking hate May and Corbyn. Charmless, witless, tiresome, boring, sub-mediocre, talentless goons. Her with her mouldy jam and robot eyes; him with his sandals and lentils. You’d avoid them at a party, let alone trusting them to run one. Fucking dreadful.

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@thatmarkperkins

7 years

@solo_man_i_a_c @skip1957 @SamuelLJackson @_juliannemoore The rest of the ordered world manages to go to school, church, open air concerts, nightclubs, offices etc without being mown down by automatic assault rifles. And we have mentally ill people. Lets leave America to figure it out.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Just collected my dad’s belongings from hospital. It was brutal but managed to speak to one of the team who was on duty that night. The relief and gratitude of knowing an NHS nurse sat with him through his final hours to talk to him before he passed away in peace is immense. ❤️

mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

My dad died this morning. He bloody loved QPR and made the first home game of the season last year, despite illness and was so pleased to be there after lockdown. Every game I go to in future I will expect to see him by my side.

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3 years

Our neighbours are isolating due to positive COVID tests and have asked me to get emergency supplies: a large kofte kebab, a large doner, 2 x chips, four cans of Beavertown Neck Oil and a packet of fags. Makes you proud to be British doesn’t it.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 months

Back from meeting the consultant treating mum's Stage 4 bowel cancer. 30% chance she'd respond to treatment. Not only has it stopped the spread, the cells are disappearing. Turned on the car radio and Bob Marley's Three Little Birds came on. Everything is going to be alright.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

1 year

QPR fans cheering on the Lionesses 👍

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

When did people start calling a meeting a ‘town hall’? Why? When will it stop? Get in the sea with your ‘We have a company town hall once a month’ nonsense.

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@thatmarkperkins

6 months

Today my mum and I went to the hospital for her cancer results, and didn’t get the news we’d hoped for. It’s spread and, as a result, is both inoperable and incurable. She’s taken it in her stride. We hit the brandy then went for an expensive meal. Back at hers on the brandy.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

QPR goal. Up to 8th 👌

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@thatmarkperkins

5 years

That two ex-QPR managers are in this latest work sums up the state of QPR as much as Brexit Britain

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2 years

They liked the agency’s ‘creative approach’ PowerPoint slide so much that they spared the budget and made it the ad.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

7 years

@FoxNews @realamymholmes @BarackObama Political analyst criticizes politician for commenting on a political decision.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

As its that time of year the backstory of Christmas Tinner. How one student's protest against austerity was turned in a festive meme AND how it almost never happened thanks to an account manager pulling it, and a rogue social media manager staging a mutiny

Campaign Confidential: Christmas Tinner

Agency: MHP-Engine Year: 2013 How one student's protest against austerity inspired a disruptive, disgusting festive meme (which almost didn't happen due after being removed from a client deck and a...

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Yes, it’s Mila Perkins who is starring in the obligatory ‘forced into a QPR shirt by my dad’ photo @qpr

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@thatmarkperkins

2 years

@nextjolie @PMtStevens @Here_is_Sam @shakira @thecure

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@thatmarkperkins

4 years

@WitdeBerna @josephwillits You use Orwell in your avatar but you clearly haven’t read his work, and if you did you didn’t understand him.

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

@ReformUKBHVoter @GBNEWS Some people say racism is exaggerated or non-existent in the UK. Yet when YOU see a black child in a TV ad you are going to boycott? Would you boycott if it was a white child? If not, why?

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

There’s a lot of front page upset and anger at Joe Lycett shredding £10k for publicity around Beckham and Qatar. Every year PR agencies shred millions on crappy stunts, content and brand installations on Potters Fields without a single word being written.

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@thatmarkperkins

3 years

I genuinely hate the individuals in government. It’s not just the lies, the double standards, fecklessness or the contempt they have for others. It’s the belief that they’re superior when they are the thickest bunch of dipshits to have ever served in office.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

5 years

Just been reminded it’s the 10 year anniversary since one of my agency colleagues went on the lash after a sell-in, called the Daily Mirror news desk and said ‘Yeah, I’ve got a story for you. 75% of Brits we surveyed think you’re a bunch of c**nts!’. They traced the call.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

5 years

Client email of my dreams just arrived: 'We think all these ideas are lovely. Which one do you recommend we do?'. When I've recovered, I'm going to get it printed, framed and also tattooed on my head.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

Explaining to my millennial wife how when I was a kid you could buy cigarette sweets In a pretend packet packet and everyone thought it was perfectly normal.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

7 years

@TallLankyWeirdo @guardian @OwenJones84 I'd be bitter if I was Anthony Worrall Thompson's unwanted love child.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

5 years

Ah that’s nice. The blonde lady sits next to me at QPR and was going on her own to Brum tonight

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Ambulance Chaser

James Watt

@BrewDogJames

4 years

We are in talks with the Government about using our closed @BrewDog bars as vaccination centres. We are also going to give everyone who gets vaccinated at a BrewDog bar a special commemorative beer. But what should we call it?

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mark perkins

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6 years

When having a SOLD sign outside your house is simply too common and ‘lowers the tone’

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

Spent tonight remembering dad at my parents house with friends. We ordered takeout from Dad’s favourite local Italian, A Casa in Cobham. The owner greeted us in tears and refused to take payment. Lovely gesture. As my dad would’ve said, ‘I wish I’d ordered the fillet steak now’

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5 years

My wife arrived here 8 years ago with a modicum of English, worked 16 hour days with two 20 minute breaks in a Mayfair hotel for minimum wage, then in a Regent St shoe shop. Now runs a department at a global agency and about to have our first child. Fuck Priti Patel.

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mark perkins

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4 years

Many years ago I did PR for a well known biscuit company. The target audience was low-middle income mums, aged 30-45, who 'live in the regions.’ The ad agency responded with the world’s biggest climbing wall, set in Londons Southbank made entirely of biscuit...

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@thatmarkperkins

1 year

Like setting your head on fire, then celebrating putting it out.

BBC Sport London

@BBCLondonSport

1 year

𝗤𝗣𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣! With the 1-0 victory at Stoke, Gareth Ainsworth's side have officially secured their Championship status. We'll have reaction from the #QPR boss on @BBCRadioLondon before 6pm 🎙️⚽️

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@thatmarkperkins

4 years

@EvanAKilgore @realDonaldTrump The First Lady who was taped complaining about ‘fucking Christmas’ 👍

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

2 years

I spent three years at Reading University whilst Penny Morduant was a fellow student. There is no further insight to be offered as, while she rose to the ranks of President of the Student Union, I spent that time doing bongs and listening to Belgian techno.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

Thanks to Weetabix, in addition to a pandemic, we’ve now got to contend with social community brand managers bantering in the desperate hope of ‘a moment’.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

My entire focus this week is getting through it as quickly as possible so I can be at QPR on Saturday with my old dad for the first time in 18 months.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

8 years

@JimWhite That worked well at QPR. Will they make Rio Ferdinand captain?

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

Dealing with ad agencies on amplifying their ‘big PR idea’ and trying to be helpful: ‘Yeah. Mmm. It’s a billboard. It’s looks great but it’s not going to grab attention to make national news’. One week on and the idea has been reworked. It’s a bigger billboard.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

After a bad week on the personal front, my therapy of QPR snatching 3 points at Luton, apple crumble and custard and a bottle of Bordeaux has certainly helped for the time being.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

We’ve got a couple over for dinner tomorrow night. That can only mean one thing: we’ll spend all of Saturday tidying and reordering the house to pretend, for a few hours at least, that we don’t live in a perpetual state of chaos and disfunction.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

7 years

@solo_man_i_a_c @skip1957 @SamuelLJackson @_juliannemoore Only the reality doesn't bear that out. Ask the family of Chris Kyle, one of the army’s finest snipers with 150 kills, who identified a companion as unstable and was killed despite he and his friend being armed.

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

3 years

My dad. Yesterday: told he has to start chemotherapy. Today: on his way out the chip shop with a bumper fish supper. 👊

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mark perkins

@thatmarkperkins

4 years

The idea submitted to client vs the idea following client amends

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5 years

We'd been frustrated by the pipeline of talent coming into PR. It didn't reflect the consumers and brands we served. So we changed the pipeline with WX: a social enterprise and a sustainable, scaleable agency by Gen Z for Gen Z

W launches social enterprise to 'fundamentally change' industry's talent pipeline

W Communications has launched WX - a social enterprise inspired by Jamie Oliver's 15 that provides training and employment opportunities to young people and aims to improve social mobility in the...

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