Pros
You will meet some fascinating people and interesting journalists.
Cons
I was 22 when I started working for Paul Blanchard in September 2019. I started as a researcher, then became a senior researcher and then a consultant. When I became a consultant, he said he was going to 'pay me from the US company account' for tax reasons and I would be self employed, so I would have to send invoices. I stupidly told him that I wanted to save all my wages towards a deposit and wouldn't be checking my account. As I was receiving wire receipts to 'Madelaine Hanson' with my sortcode and account number listed, I didn't even think to question it. When I left in November 2019, I checked my account and my bank told me they'd never received any funds, amounting to £29,324.67. Puzzled, I contacted Paul Blanchard and he said he was surprised and had no idea what was going on, promising to look into it. Despite being penniless and homeless, and having to borrow money from my parents, he continued to drag it out, making crazy accusations that I was the reason his clients had left after I did, going as far as to accuse me of telling them about his illicit business practices concerning a major political event, resulting in a massive ongoing lawsuit against him. Even after the clients themselves informed him that this hadn't happened, he still ignored my requests for my wages. I then found out, from his own invoice to a client, that the IBAN that had received ALL my wages was his account at Metrobank. He had never informed me of this, and to this day hasn't given me a penny. He owes hundreds of thousands of pounds to at least 18 former employees, and is in multiple legal disputes with clients for unfulfilled promises and broken contracts. He did what he did to me (not send the money to my account) to at least other woman and refused to pay the mother of a disabled child her wages going back months in unpaid invoices unless she signed a NDA on his activities. I cannot stress how much you should avoid Paul Blanchard.