Politics

Whatever you say about Google – and a lot’s been said recently, not always to its advantage – it’s inescapably useful. So now the tech giant, under fire from all sides seemingly, is going back to basics with its first ...

The UK’s Spectator political weekly is launching its first USA print edition and Firetree chocolate, the upscale ‘volcanic” brand developed with agency Leagas Delaney, is making its US debut therein. Leagas Delaney’s first creative plays on the current toxic atmosphere ...

After the 2016 EU referendum, despite much doom and gloom, consumer confidence remained remarkably positive. Fast forward to 2019, with the Brexit outcome seemingly more uncertain than ever, and the picture is very different. The British Retail Consortium recently reported ...

We only ask because the UK Supreme court has ruled that most of PM Boris Johnson’s wheezes – like proroguing Parliament – are not legal (the court says Parliament is still sitting.) Johnson tried to claim he did this – ...

One of the disconcerting factors about late capitalism in developed markets is the incidence of food banks and the like, visible proof that some people don’t have enough to eat. You see them in the UK and now this ad ...

Is Sir John Hegarty back in harness at BBH? He is, sort of, with this new campaign from BBH for Simba, the “sleep technology” brand developed by his The Garage Soho and now hitting the airwaves with Hegarty in the ...

It hasn’t been the best of weeks for WPP with £400m billing Vodafone media departing to Carat in the UK but it will be pleased to hang on to what may be its longest-serving client, the US Marine Corps. JWT ...

Leaders of 145 of America’s biggest companies have signed a letter demanding background checks on gun buyers and ‘Extreme Risk’ laws following a spate of summer shootings in the US. Separately Walmart is demanding more checks: about time too as ...

It seems a while since Sir Martin Sorrell did the rounds of the TV studios as in his WPP days but here’s the boss of S4Capital and MediaMonks regaling the viewers of CNBC with his views about the way companies ...