Politics

The current UK government may not be much good at governing (its critics say) but it’s been the ad agencies’ best friend. On top of the millions spent on Covid-19 campaigns (mostly via MullenLowe) it’s being a good friend to ...

Prepare for another panicky round of policy measures: the UK economy shrunk by 20.4% in the second quarter after falling 2.2% in the first – so it’s an official recession, which won’t surprise anyone. Worse than any other G7 big ...

Ben & Jerry’s was always likely to be an unruly member of the Unilever family but in the nearly 20 years since the FMCG giant bought it for north of $300m, life’s been pretty sweet all round. That may change ...

Will the new post-Covid normal have amy newspapers in it? The London Evening Standard, which is given away at tube and train stations and some supermarkets, is cutting a third of its workforce including a load of commercial jobs (my ...

Publicis’ outspoken head of futures Tom Goodwin now founds himself a thing of the past (at least as far the agency group is concerned) as he’s left the French marcoms giant in a hurry following a Twitter spat. In other ...

You think you’ve got problems in this problematic age. A child with epilepsy is of a different order altogether and Dallas agency Team One is doing its bit to help with this inspiring film – ‘Chasing Hope’ – part of ...

Public Health England, the government body supposed to be keeping us out of the clutches of Covid-19, spent a staggering £43m on advertising during the UK’s March 23 to June 30 lockdown period, according to new figures from Nielsen. This ...

The UK is battening down the hatches again on Covid-19 after ONS figures reveal the number of cases in the UK is rising again. PM Boris Johnson has delayed a further series of lockdown relaxations (theatres etc) alongside new localised ...

WPP has joined its industry peers in releasing US diversity data and it makes pretty horrible reading. WPP, it seems, has the lowest percentage of black executives at a scarcely believable 2.2%. CEO Mark Read says: “We have a huge ...