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So are prime minister Boris Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings (Dom as his friends call him, assuming he has any) a danger to democracy? Well they might be if you think media access to our elected leaders is ...

It is, of course, St Valentine’s Day on Friday (you’d forgotten, obviously) when, among other things, the card population rises. Two creatives from The Gate London, Beth Grace and Hannah Cunningham, have spotted a dearth of LGBTQA+ offerings on the ...

This first big brand campaign for Uber Eats from Mother is a refreshing, uncomplicated — but strategically clever — look at the life of a courier who delivers a dose of positivity with every meal. Comedian Guz Khan is the ...

The Oscars aren’t quite the showcase for commercial creativity that you might expect, given how much adland loves Hollywood, but as it’s the morning after the night before, here are a couple of good ones created specially to run during ...

OK, so the Super Bowl fever is finally subsiding. The best news is that my favorite ad, “Loretta,” from Google has been ranked amongst the top three of the 62 spots that ran throughout the game. And, by the way, ...

Waitrose (or Waitrose & Partners as we’re now supposed to call it) has taken a leaf out of M&S’s old food book (and the Wieden+Kennedy manual) with what we used to call food porn, coupled with some nice free range ...

Does M&S have the faintest clue what it’s doing? Apparently it sells lots of jeans and stuff so it’s charged clothing agency Odd with flogging a few more by making its rather humdrum brand more hip and exciting. Seems sensible ...

The Royal Ascot race meeting in the UK – a key part of “the season” – does rather divide opinion. This year should be particularly interesting from a gossip point of view: will under-fire Prince Andrew accompany Her Maj in ...

Blue Monday (January 20 this year) is the day when the realities of overspend in December come home to roost. But it’s also a time when structural changes in organisations are implemented. So for many an unlucky person it could ...