Politics

Lucy Powell, shadow secretary of state for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, got a laugh at Lead 2023 when she started by apologising to the audience that they had to start the day by listening to two ...

Saatchi & Saatchi has entered the Roe v. Wade abortion lists again with yet another use of its iconic pregnant man ad, this time with ‘50 years of men making decisions over women’s bodies.’ The ad shows the male judges ...

If you’re an agency what do you do with a product or service that’s a complete lemon? (Not a DDB/VW lemon obviously.) It’s hardly a new issue but one that’s more pressing these days as consumers (of everything from food ...

Newish British PM Rishi Sunak is positioning himself as Captain Sensible, producing a wish list of priorities to get the country back on its feet (he hopes.) One of the least sensible notions of the previous Tory government and its ...

The wheels are coming off the one-time Meta juggernaut with a vengeance. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is (reluctantly) fining the Facebook and Instagram owner €390m for targeting users with personalised ads. Apparently these, the foundation of Meta’s $98bn ad ...

A while back we recommended a policy of masterly inactivity to a UK government determined to privatise Channel 4, a terrestrial TV channel (with a growing number of digital bits) that costs the taxpayer nothing and, in its last year, ...

Sooner or later a “peace” deal will be cobbled together in Ukraine, probably one that won’t satisfy anyone apart, maybe, from European consumers who might see energy prices fall and inflation abate. It will probably see Vladimir Putin still ensconced ...

So here we have that ((well-intentioned) fabricator of over-consumption Santa Claus and long-suffering Mother Earth, who’s finally reached the end of her tether. Can they get it together again and save the world? Another ambitious Christmas effort from Norway postal ...

Elon Musk’s misguided and, latterly, crazed acquisition of Twitter for $44bn (a fair amount of it borrowed) hasn’t brought much benefit to anyone. Musk himself as well as the thousands of Twitter employees sacked and those remaining in fear of ...