Politics

The catchweight contest between WPP and founder and former CEO Sir Martin Sorrell is entering round 37. Campaign’s sleuths have discovered (subscription required) from WPP’s annual report that Sorrell’s former empire will not pay out two final long term payments ...

In its latest tweet, John Lewis allows that its style is not for everyone: “Time for an interiors refresh? We pride our Home Design Service on having something for *almost* everyone.” The brand has received a lot of love since ...

The US must have more lawyers and law schools per head of the population than anywhere and the result? To an outsider at least, one of the most dysfunctional justice systems. Reform Alliance is trying to change the onerous rules ...

There’ll be much poring over the entrails of the European Super League’s (ESL) failure to get off the ground this week – the biggest PR disaster in decades some think. So who was in charge of PR? Well the PR ...

Here’s a new one (for us anyway) in the agency C-suite, a chief sustainability officer (CSO presumably) although most agencies now have one that does something else. MSQ has appointed James Cannings (left) to the role (he’s already there as ...

That didn’t take long did it? Plans for the European Super League are in ashes as the six English clubs involved – Arsenal, Manchester City, Man United, Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool – scramble for the exit as the football (and, ...

It’s not often that the world’sd biggest commercial operators come together in a new venture that – to us ordinary mortals – looks like one the biggest PR disasters in business history. But that’s what the football giants who have ...

Friday evening os it’s into the kitchen to turn on Iggy Pop on BBC Radio Six Music and it’s….Gideon Coe playing a succession of dirges to mark Prince Philip’s death. On Saturday evening Craig Charles’ Funk and Soul Show is ...

This seems to be P&G’s take on the George Floyd issue, timed, presumably, for the trial of policeman Derek Chauvin. Or the potential aftermath anyway. Inviting us to “widen the screen’ on the way we see things, race especially. By ...