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WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell is an interesting choice to debate inequality (total pay packet over the past two years £48m, estimated net worth £200m, and that’s with the big divorce out of the way). But that’s what he was doing ...

‘Is the Charlie Hebdo shooting linked to Islamic Extremism?’ asks the headline on CNN today. No wonder CNN is losing audience. It’s a rhetorical question – or headline – of course. We all know what the answer is. But what ...

I suppose we’d better write something about this: The governing Tories have kicked off their British General Election campaign (polling day is May 5) with a crappy poster showing the road ahead with them. Trouble is it’s supposed to be ...

It isn’t all fun and games at this time of the year: two years ago (December 14 2012) a 20 year-old shot 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Then his mother and ...

The BBC has decided to plug its local news operation and enlisted RKCR/Y&R for the purpose. Local news in the UK, as we always understood it, is dying these days as local and regional newspapers wither and commercial local radio ...

The absurdity of America’s gun laws (or lack of them) is neatly highlighted in this radio campaign for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America from Grey Toronto. Supermarket chain Krogers allows you to enter its stores with a ...

The Fantastic Mr Fox, you may recall, is a Roald Dahl story about a fox, a much-decried species in the English countryside, who triumphs over his adversaries (boorish humans) through a mixture of cunning, wit and charm. And, it has ...

WPP’s M4C, its bespoke media agency that has handled the UK government’s media buying for the past four years, has taken its dispute over the Government’s decision to move the business to Carat an important step further by filing court ...

We haven’t always been fans of bookmaker Paddy Power’s advertising efforts but it’s scored a winner with this film showing UKIP leader Nigel Farage supporting the Europe team against the Americans in the Ryder Cup, which starts tomorrow (Friday). Quite ...

Well she probably didn’t do it on her own but ‘Better Together’ agency M&C Saatchi has had the last laugh over its much-derided Scottish Referendum film ‘The Woman Who Made Up Her Mind.’ The film featured an actress (presumably), who ...