Politics

Ten days ago we noted that the UK’s Covid-19 crisis could turn into a political crisis – and it has. At the weekend the Sunday Times’ Insight Team – once the vanguard of investigative journalism in the UK, more recently ...

I see that Omnicom’s BBDO, arguably the most successful global creative agency in business terms over the last ten years is axing staff, including New York CCO Greg Hahn. Well we all have to take the pain. After this is ...

The BBC’s having a pretty good war in the crisis, reminding people everywhere (and hopefully some politicians) about its purpose in life. Here’s a further reminder from BBC Creative (also turning into a good idea) showing us the changes affecting ...

More news is emerging about job losses and cutbacks – and furloughs, of which more later – at the big ad holding companies. Omnicom CEO John Wren has warned of such measures at the same time as announcing top exec ...

One of the bigger commercial victims of the Covid-19 outbreak is the newspaper industry – when all this ends in the UK and other places there may not be one. Newspapers have been converting to digital as fast as they ...

Let’s rewind a year. Warnings of travel restrictions, supply chain shocks, potential job losses, medical supplies not getting through, lorries backed up at the border, some of us had even started stockpiling – remember Brexit? There was fear and bitter ...

The UK’s death toll fronm Covid-19 hit 980 today, higher than the worst days in Italy and Spain. Yet we had two weeks to learn from what was happening in Italy and much more (although restricted) about China. Health Secretary ...

Interpublic’s MullenLowe has become the most high profile agency to announce Covid-19 lay-offs with ten per cent of the agency’s US staff out. They’re being offered three months’ healthcare. The timing’s a touch sneaky, just before Easter. It won’t be ...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is doing her bit to persuade people to stay home in the virus, but going the extra mile for California governor Gavin Newsom. Celebs saying they’re on our side too have become rather tedious. Doing without your “glam ...