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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 Paul Simons on May 3, 2012
I’ve just been to vote for the next Mayor of London and, walking down the street, I was thinking about the ‘headline’ views most people will have about the candidates. That turned in to wondering to what extent people in marketing and advertising understand the deeper policy issues of the candidates or to what extent [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Boris Johnson, brand values, ddb london, elelctions, golf ads, iceland, Ken Livingstone, london mayor, Paul Simons, personal preference, policies, volkswagen, Waitrose
By Stephen Foster on March 23, 2012
All these clever clogs chancellors of the UK exchequer come unstuck now and then (look at Gordon Brown) and hyper-ambitious current incumbent George Osborne (pictured) may just have made his big mistake by trying to sneak through his now-notorious ‘Granny Tax,‘ a sneaky way to try to ensure that pensioners (who by and large are [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged Boris Johnson, budget, daily mail, David Cameron, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, granny tax, Ken Livingstone, Labour, london mayor, olympics, tory succession
By Stephen Foster on January 12, 2012
Do they still call Ken Livingstone Red Ken? Well London mayor Boris johnson probably does. And Tory Boris, who faces re-election this summer, is coming under fire from his opponent, former mayor Labour’s Ken Livingstone, who has recruited newly-formed BETC London to produce this ad, accusing Boris of picking Londoner’s pockets by putting up tube [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics | Tagged betc london, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, david jones, election, havas, Ken Livingstone, london mayor, Matthew Charlton, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, pickpocket ad, republican nomination race, tube fares
By Stephen Foster on August 10, 2011
London mayor Boris Johnson is famous for busking it and came monumentally unstuck on a walkabout in riot-hit Clapham yesterday when local residents (Clapham is a mostly well-heeled suburb of London) gave him some stick for clearly not knowing what he was talking about. He’s accompanied by a clearly pissed off home secretary Teresa May [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Bojo, Boris Johnson, clapham walkabout, coalition government, David Cameron, home secretary, london mayor, london riots, Teresa May
By Stephen Foster on August 9, 2011
The two Old Etonians in charge of the UK’s capital city – prime minister David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson – have come scurrying back from holiday (Cameron from Tuscany, Boris from goodness knows where but there was probably an echo chamber to amplify his own voice) hoping desperately that their world becomes a [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Boris Johnson, coalition prime minister, David Cameron, economic meltdown, eurozone, London, london mayor, london olympics 2012, looting, Mark Duggan, metropolitan police, old etonians, oxford university, pc world, riots, shooting, standard & poor's, stock markets, tottenham
By Stephen Foster on July 18, 2011
Met Police assistant commissioner John Yates, the senior policeman who investigated the News of the World phone hacking scandal and declared the matter closed despite being supposedly the cleverest person at Scotland Yard, has followed his boss Sir Paul Stephenson into early retirement as the fallout from the scandal continues to spread. Stephenson’s decision to [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Boris Johnson, Cameron crisis, David Cameron, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, John Yates, london mayor, Matthew Freud, Neil Wallis, news corporation, News International, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Wade, resignations, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Paul Stephenson
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