When David Cameron became PM the outgoing Labour team left a note in the Treasury that said “There’s no money left.” What short memories we have and also how history gets re-written so quickly. Labour have a reputation for consistently ...

Who on earth is co-ordinating, if that’s not too grand a word, the Tories’ General Election campaign. Not M&C Saatchi surely, who should know about these things. Aussie spinmeister and legendary control freak Lynton Crosby? Then where is he? Here’s ...

Against all the odds the British General Election is getting interesting: what looked like a shoo-in for Tory Theresa May against a divided and seemingly incompetent Labour Party suddenly isn’t so clear cut after all. One of the hardest things ...

No idea what Paddy Power is offering on Labour to win the General Election (1000-1?) but it’s offering 2-1 on embattled Donald Trump being impeached. Being impeached is becoming par for the course for US Presidents these days and doesn’t ...

Will anyone miss Kelvin Mackenzie? The long-serving Rupert Murdoch ally (below) has had his post as Sun columnist terminated “by mutual consent” following his comparison of Everton’s Ross Barkley to a gorilla. News UK has also sold its shareholding in ...

Here’s a nifty little social media ad from Krow for the Labour Party. Theresa May does indeed make Mrs Thatcher look like Mother Theresa. Hang on, she was a control freak too. M&C Saatchi has the winning hand with the ...

Interpublic, which owns McCann, FCB and Mediabrands among others – unveiled a solid Q1 2017 with earnings (profit) of $21.5m, an impressive increase on the previous year’s $5.4m. Somehow or other IPG managed to reduce its quarterly costs by 58 ...

Celebrity couple and reality stars the Trumps (White House version) have chalked up another win hard on the heels of Donald unloading cruise missiles on a Syrian airbase (having warned the Russians beforehand). Now First Lady Melania has wrung an ...

In Dave Eggers’ The Circle,’ the near future sees the merger of all the leading tech companies into one giant – dominating every aspect of life. There is no escape. Imagine a scenario where Google buys Facebook, or vice versa, ...

I missed this one (I probably would anyway as it has Kendall Jenner in it) for Pepsi. Made in house although there’s no guarantee an agency wouldn’t have done something as daft. But when will “brands” learn (as though brands ...