Politics

The Romanians are obviously pissed off with people (including Athletico Madrid fans who flew to the wrong place) who confuse Bucharest (Romania) with Budapest (Hungary). Apparently it’s all the late Michael Jackson’s fault but then most things are. So Bucharest’s ...

The Chinese economy may be slowing but it’s still growing at an eye-watering pace in comparison to Europe and even the US. Films are doing particularly well, with receipts up 30 per cent in the past year to $2.7bn. But ...

A few years ago WPP-owned Ogilvy sprung a big surprise by hiring M&C Saatchi creative director Graham Fink, a veteran of the London agency scene (although he manages not to look like one), and transplanting him to China. Have they ...

BBH seems to have ruffled a few feathers with this latest encapsulation for General Mills’ Old El Paso tex-mex stuff. It features Mexican hard man actor Danny Trejo and his rather unappealing family; bad hats to a man. Here’s how ...

The Independent newspaper, which also publishes a separate Sunday edition, the cut-price 20p i and the London Evening Standard, is cutting a further 27 jobs as it tries to narrow trading losses of £16.6m. The company is owned by the ...

Marlene Hore (left), the Canadian grand dame of advertising, said that when she was executive creative director at JWT in Canada in the 1980s, she thought: “I’ve opened a door for women – lots will follow. But they haven’t.” Depressingly, ...

The next UK General Election is still the best part of two years away – assuming the coalition government between Tories and Lib Dems lasts that long – but Campaign reports that the Labour Party (still the likeliest next government ...

Even at 82 it seems that the only way to muzzle, let alone control, Rupert Murdoch is to bury a stake in his heart (and hedge your bets with copious quantities of garlic). The one-time Dirty Digger is back in ...

More patriot games from the US: outdoor giant Clear Channel is using its network of digital screens to show lines from the Star-Spangled Banner this fourth of July; beginning on the East Coast and ending with ‘the home of the ...