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By Stuart Smith on March 19, 2013
Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved cross-party consensus on regulating the press. Everyone, it seems, is a winner. Dave has gambled – with losing a vote in the House of Commons, and implicit in it a momentous amount of face – [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Barclay brothers, David Cameron, Ed Milliband, Leveson, Nick Clegg, parliament, Rupert Murdoch, Tina Weaver, uk press regulation, Viscount Rotheremere
By Stephen Foster on March 15, 2013
A rich mixture then. ***RKCR/Y&R (please call it Y&R, RKC and R have cleared off) has produced this nice film to celebrate the BBC’s 90th birthday, featuring some of its greatest hits. Oddly, there’s no Jimmy Savile. But I can’t really see why someone at the Beeb couldn’t have done this. The corporation is full [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged bbc 90th birthday, coke zero, David Cameron, droga5, government procurement service, ipa, karmarama, leveson inquiry, Nicola Medelsohn, rkcr/y&r
By Stuart Smith on January 27, 2013
If it weren’t for the fact David Cameron (left) watches so little television, I would be forced to conclude he has been modelling his recent behaviour on Borg, the Viking Himbo now fronting Tesco’s advertising. How else to explain his assault on multinational brands in recent days – which has all the subtlety of Thor [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Amazon, Borg, brands, coca-cola, David Cameron, davos, google, tax dodging, Tesco, world economic forum
By Stephen Foster on January 23, 2013
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, is in Davos along with lots of other movers and shakers (he likes the place, he met the current Lady Sorrell there) and, he, like lots of other UK business leaders is aghast at UK PM David Cameron’s plan to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media | Tagged 2017, David Cameron, davos, eu referendum, europe, omnicom, research, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
By Stephen Foster on January 14, 2013
Sirs Martin Sorrell and Richard Branson and sundry other business luminaries have written to the Financial Times blasting tbe UK PM’s plans to hold a referendum on Britain’s EU membership. This is scheduled after the next General Election, which David Cameron is unlikely to win – but never mind. These Tory-supporting business types make you [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged David Cameron, EU, financial times letter, referendum, richard branson, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sir Richard Branson, Tory Party
By Stuart Smith on November 30, 2012
LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication of his own reputation, which– despite inappropriate platonic text dalliance with La (Rebekah) Brooks, now [...]
Posted in Analysis, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, David Cameron, Lord Leveson, media ethics, Murdochs, ofcom, proposals, Rebekah Brooks, Viscount Rothermere
By Stuart Smith on October 7, 2012
The Advertising Standards Authority must be rueing the day they had their remit extended to website jurisdiction, after unwittingly becoming a political football in an increasingly virulent fracas over the integrity of Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps. It all began innocuously enough when blogger The Plashing Vole drew our attention to the upwardly mobile Tory [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged advertising standards authority, David Cameron, Dr Aidan Byrne, google ad revenue, Grant Shapps, how to corp, internet scam, Michael Green, the plashing vole, Tory Party, trafficpaymaster
By Stephen Foster on September 20, 2012
Before the last UK general election the Liberal Democrats signed a ‘pledge’ not to increase student tuition fees. And then promptly agreed to them being tripled followed a Labour-instigated review by the ludicrous Lord Browne, former head of BP who was nixed after lying about his homosexual lover. Now Clegg has chosen a rare party [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged coalition government, David Cameron, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, pr disaster, the poke, tuition fees, Vince Cable
By Paul Simons on August 3, 2012
Andrew Gimson in the London Evening Standard has written a piece I’ve been mulling over but not quite had the confidence to write about; he has suggested Boris Johnson is limbering up to become the future leader of the UK. His observations are very insightful and persuasive. What has gone through my head is what [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Finance, Media | Tagged Boris Johnson, brand perception, David Cameron, George Osborne, Ken Livingstone, london mayor, olympics
By Staff on July 24, 2012
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head… Well, Rebekah Brooks’ and Andy Coulson’s heads at any rate. Along with those of 6 other hacks from The News of the World (ob. 2011) and The Sun. It’s career death for them, whatever the outcome of a trial. And, frankly, things look pretty grim for [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Prudence MacLeod, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, The Daily Express, the mirror, Tony Blair
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