Politics

Here are some supposed highlights from Faceboook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first day of testimony before the US Congress following the Cambridge Analytica data mis-use revelations (87m users had their information hacked). Not much new here from a contrite Zuckerberg although ...

The Cambridge Analytica affair may be the biggest threat to Facebook to date; far more so than Russian meddling in the last US Presidential Election (the Cambridge Analytica gang were much cleverer in the way they harvested data from, virtually, ...

Those of us old enough will remember the damp squib that was the Y2K scare. At midnight on New Year’s Eve 1999 every computer in the world was apparently going to crash, unprepared for the year 2000 and its row ...

Are these the first same sex snogs in ads? Part of a new campaign by TBWA Sydney, brave indeed where same sex marriage is a hot issue. Shot on an iPhone X (well you have to sell something). Clever to ...

On the face of it Johnnie Walker is an unlikely women’s advocate but it’s becoming one in style in a new campaign from Anomaly New York, featuring one Jane Walker. She’s being rolled out – if that’s the apropriate description, ...

Happy bunnies in London this morning are most Sky shareholders, who’ve seen US cable giant and NBC owner Comcast bid about £22bn for the company. Not so pleased is Rupert Murdoch (below), whose Fox already owns 39 per cent of ...

Best for Britain is an organisation pledged to fight Brexit, hoping to secure a second referendum on Britain leaving the EU if, as it hopes, the UK government fails to get its Brexit bill through Parliament later this year. To ...

Traditional media may have been a vale of tears for most of its proponents over the past 15 years or so, but not for Richard Desmond. Now the former owner of Channel 5 (below) – sold to Viacom for £463m ...

I see that The Drum is running a piece musing on “how marketers should react” to the death of Elizabeth 11 (she isn’t dead by the way), following a piece in the Guardian about the possible public reaction to such ...