Joshua Blackburn

Joshua is founder and chief agitator at Provokateur.

an émigré from the heady world of corporate branding and the morky world of political campaigns, Joshua has unique experience of strategy and comunications.

At the branding agency Wolf Olins he was a specilist in not-for-profit clients, including The Open University, Samaritans, The Giving Campaign, Tate and others.

Prior to this, he worked witht he larbour party's strategy advisor, Philip Gould, over the 1997 General Election and later joined the strategic communications consultancy Gould Greenberg Carville. Sadly he then found himself at the shamefull bad Britain in Europe campaign, an experience he regretted ever since.

Joshua writes extensively in the national press and speaks regularly at conferences.