Politics

A YouGov survey recently revealed that six out of ten voters would not buy a used car from Boris Johnson. Apparently though, 13 per cent would, which proves Abraham Lincoln’s famous dictum that “you can fool some of the people ...

Here’s another much-trumpeted dollop of purpose from P&G, ‘The Look’ from the Saturday Morning collective. Showing a black man and his child being given the cold shoulder (or look) by white folks. P&G is trying to appeal to black consumers ...

This year at Cannes we saw the expected deluge of purpose-focused winners, from the massive Dream Crazy ad from Nike to the less well-known Carling’s Address the Future initiative. Each year, it seems that more Lions are awarded to campaigns ...

Readers with (very) long memories may recall that in 1987 the Saatchi brothers, then running the world’s biggest agency group, announced their intention to take over the UK’s Midland Bank, one of the biggest at the time. The Midland (now ...

Trust was the most popular word at Cannes this year, the actual meaning of which covers a multitude of strategies and intentions. It is usually delivered with a serious face and a slowing of speech, a bit like Esther Rantzen ...

What on earth is ‘woke-washing?’ It was instanced by new Unilever CEO Alan Jope at a roundtable in Cannes and seems to mean what some brands do when they claim “brand purpose” for their own evil ends. Unilever, of course, ...

In the regional Chinese city of Rongcheng, the ruling one-party state is perfecting its soon to be nationwide “Social Credit System”. Starting with 1,000 points, every citizen has points deducted – or added – for their historical (and current) behaviour. ...

RB, Reckitt Benckiser as was and sometimes still is, is stepping outside its usual hard sell mode with this anti-plastic opus – ‘Nature is Speaking’ from Casual Films. Nature is Speaking is also the name of a star-packed series from ...

More football, this time from some unexpected places. Sportsbet.io (which lets you bet in bitcoins and other crypto currencies – yikes) is sponsoring the CONIFA European Football Cup which features teams from minorities, including stateless people, and other locations currently ...