Politics

The voters make fools of us all from time to time (including we hacks) and it looks as though 2015’s General Election has been one such instance. Most of the polls have been proved wrong (except a so-called ‘rogue’ one ...

If Labour’s Ed Miliband wins the General Election – or Labour ends up as the largest party, which is more likely – then it will be a well-deserved kick in the unmentionables for Britain’s increasingly absurd right wing press. As ...

I’ve no idea who’s going to win Thursday’s election – the latest polls shows the Tories and Labour neck and neck on 33 per cent, as they pretty much have throughout – but we can, at least, offer a view ...

Lucky Generals is back into the election lists for bookmaker Paddy Power, this time offering odds on Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s next occupation (assuming he loses his Parliamentary seat in Sheffield of course, which he well might). Not as ...

Lots of people have been bemoaning the lack of sparky election ads, harking back to the moth-encrusted days of Saatchi’s ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ for Margaret Thatcher and the Tories. Up and coming London agency Lucky Generals produced a couple of ...

None of the parties fighting out the UK General Election seems to have hired Johnny Hornby, grand vizier of CHI & Partners and The&Partnership, even though CHI has worked for both Labour (in the Tony Blair era) and the Tories ...

The UK’s Green Party has a bit of ground to make up following some disastrous public performances by leader Natalie Bennett – not helped by her Aussie accent, although she’s lived in Britain for 15 years or so. It’s safe ...

Ads, and the efforts of admen, will play a role in May’s General Election but, probably, a lesser role than the admen would hope. So far there’s been one well-aimed punch, M&C Saatchi’s poster for the Conservatives featuring Labour leader ...

So far the UK General Election campaign (polling day May 6) has failed to produce any advertising fireworks and it’s not very likely to with the main parties more careful to say what they’re not than what they are. Ireland ...