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Today editor Ceri Thomas is hardly the most popular person with his listeners, many of whom were outraged when presenter ‘posh’ Ed Stourton was defenstrated to make room for returning US correspondent Justin Webb. Now Thomas has told the BBC’s ...
Read More »Lib Dems launch ‘Labservative’ as their campaign theme – but is being negative enough?
Political advertising is an extremely inexact science despite the presence of endless pollsters and researchers. And the client is the ultimate nightmare of course. Even though everybody is talking of a hung Parliament in the UK the Lib Dems, who ...
Read More »Another first for Rod Liddle – but was he right about afro-Caribbean crimes?
Rod Liddle, who now no longer appears to be in line to edit the Independent, is the first blogger to be censured by the Press Complaints Commission. This is for asserting, back in December, that afro-Caribbean young men were ‘overwhelmingly’ ...
Read More »Richard Edelman on Anna Karenina and business
And the great man’s point is that businesses who regard humans as friends rather than enemies do best. A point Tolstoy makes in his great novel about a love affair interrupted by a train. But I do wonder if Richard ...
Read More »Unilever sets the pace in digital media with new Lynx campaign by BBH on iAds
Unilever chief marketing officer Keith Weed is putting his company’s money where his mouth is with the new campaign for the Lynx Excite range, which will be spearheaded by an iAd promotion by BBH on Apple’s mobile advertising network. According ...
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