Governments around the world are wrestling to formulate regulation to control harmful and toxic content appearing on social media and poisoning the hearts and minds of their populations and civil society. Last month Australia took the bold move to require social media companies to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent users under the age of 16 to hold accounts with them. While this may support parents to contain the amount of harmful exposure their children are subjected to, one cannot help drawing parallels with the efforts of King Canute and the effectiveness his efforts may have had. Perhaps regulators should seek a solution to the problems of controlling harmful online content by looking at the problem differently… (3-4 mins)

Once again Phoenix MRC are Race Passion sponsors in the 2024 1000Miglia in Italy. This year Team Phoenix will be hosting a Low Chassis 1930 Invicta in the race. Well, it’s called a race but the current 1000Miglia is as much a pageant as a race. The thing that probably elevates the 1000Miglia from other modern road rallies is the pageantry. Italians love motor cars and they embrace the 1000Miglia with all their hearts.

We're delighted to be corporate Race Passion Sponsors for this year's Mille Miglia, known as "The most beautiful race in the world". Additionally, Team Phoenix will have two cars running in the rally itself, a 1951 Jaguar Mark VII driven by our own Chief Executive, Susan Owen with her husband Ian and a 1955 Jaguar XK140 driven by Charles and Nicholas Owen, her sons. Susan first drove the Mille Miglia in 2016 in the same XK140.

Follow them in this year's rally on the official Mille Miglia rally website from 13 -17 June as they make their way on the 1000 mile rally route between Brecia and Rome, Italy.

Shiny new tablets brighten up Phoenix MRC's interviewers' day!

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Most of us today feel we have too many things to think about and the Energy Switching agenda gives us yet one more. Powers that Be are frustrated with how stubborn consumers have been not to engage and switch. In the commercial world companies tend to stop and reconsider when they meet this much resistance to a product offering. As marketeers and consultants one of our key skills is to delve into motivations. I've read the public information and the motivation behind the Energy Switching agenda never seems to be explained satisfactorily. Read on for a perspective on the motivations in this area.

Amazon is suing fake reviewers, consumer watch dogs are warning us about fake and biased reviews. What will happen when we no longer have confidence in the consumer review ratings that are currently so popular?