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In the UK this will be the longest General Election campaign ever, thanks to the coalition government’s decision to introduce fixed five year intervals between elections. And pretty boring it’s been so far. So thanks to the Labour Party and ...

There seem to be lots of British businessmen – or businessmen who do business in Britain – who don’t care for the prospect of a Government led by Labour leader Ed Miliband – and not just because of his nasal ...

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 ...