Politics
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Ukraine: have the social networks risen to the challenge of Putin’s war?
On the face of it, yes. Meta’s WhatsApp has been the main means for people in Ukraine and, as crucially,…
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Ukraine: sport is a weapon against Putin if the authorities can bite the financial bullet
Vladimir Putin’s Hitler-style invasion of Ukraine – it’s straight from the 1930’s playbook of Czechoslovakia and Poland (Russia came later,…
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UK’s Ad Association launches global export drive roadshow
The UK’s Advertising Association (AA) is spearheading an export drive with the Department for International Trade (DIT) to try to…
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Olympics sponsors face $100m ad quandary
Top tier Olympic sponsors fork out $100m or so each games but they must be pretty pee’d off about the…
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Nadine Dorries says she will ‘make the UK the safest place in the world to go online’ at Renew conference
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries took a break from bashing the BBC and bigging up Boris Johnson to speak at the…
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Uncommon gears up for Winter Olympics – now where are they again?
International sport has got itself into a right old muddle as the various governing authorities chase money to the exclusion…
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MAA blast from the past: Boris (some) used to know and love
As the waters of ‘partygate’ close around British PM Boris Johnson – can the slippery old boulevardier get away with…
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IPA Bellwether: UK companies up marketing budgets but Omicron slows Q4 growth
The UK’s adspend recovery stuttered in Q4 2021 as the Omicron Covid variant sent the country (the medical establishment anyway)…
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First Choice bank and the UN venture into the metaverse
Into the metaverse now (oh, no..) and, like so many new frontiers, it seems to be taking root (if that’s…
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