Politics

Spain is currently embroiled in a financial scandal dating back to the financial crisis and one of the leading figures reportedly involved is Rodrigo Rato, a former Spanish finance minister and, after that, managing director of the International Monetary Fund ...

An agency called London Advertising produced this video for London mayoral hopeful Ivan Massow, an entrepreneur and gay advocate. London’s Michael Moszynski says: “As Ivan has put a lot of time and effort into his campaign, and spent a lot ...

Inevitably, there’s a hell of a lot of talk here at Cannes about advertising for good. Maybe it’s people feeling guilty that they’re spending the rest of the day drinking heavily, maybe they genuinely want to change the world. I’ll ...

You guys have just gone through a General Election. It dragged on for almost six weeks and lots of money was expended to produce a result every single pollster got wrong. Ha, amateurs. Here in America we do not arse ...

Fifa boss Sepp Blatter (left) is resigning, even as we write this, which surely testifies to the belated realisation on the part of its big money sponsors – who include Adidas, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Visa and Sony – that they can ...

“Shell will let the world burn to drill in the Arctic,” says Greenpeace in this new polemic. Sounds a touch over the top but nobody really knows the consequences of such activity, on temperatures for example. So agency Don’t Panic ...

I’ve often found Paddy Power’s advertising efforts mildly irritating – sometimes more than that. You set out to be ‘disruptive’ and it often seems as though the kids have taken over the nursery. The missing factor is ‘taste,’ a rather ...

Oh yes, it was supposed to be the UK’s closest election since Richard III was buried in a car park. ‘Cos every poll had put Labour and the Tories neck and neck; resulting in a hung parliament that would have ...

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 ...