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The man who famously rebranded BP as “Beyond Petroleum” has re-entered the debate over climate and oil by warning that oil companies face bankruptcy if they do not address the risks of global warming.

Oh dear, BP. Last week was a lesson in how corporate sponsorship of the arts backfires badly.

We have known for years that Big Oil companies like BP sponsor iconic arts institutions in the UK as a way of greenwashing their image and helping the company with its “social licence to operate”.

There were two different actions over the last few days in Paris, with the same underlying message: as we enter the so-called business end of the COP21 talks, there can be no more false solutions to climate change.

With less than one week before Paris climate talks, known officially as the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21), the campaign group Corporate Accountability International has released a report exposing the “filthy” track record of some of the corporations sponsoring the talks.

There are two scandals going on in world sport right now: the one you have heard about and the one that you haven’t.

Twenty years ago the oil giant Shell was embroiled in two separate controversies, which still haunt the company to this day.

It has often been called the heart of public relations: but the third party technique is simple – it is putting your words in someone else’s mouth.

As more and more of us search for news and information online, PR companies and their clients are increasingly trying to manipulate what you read.

I discovered recently that I was being spied on by BP.