Politics

It’s easy to get depressed about the state of the world: cruel, controlling and anti-democratic regimes – and that’s just in good old Europe. We won’t go into jihadis and mad North Korean dictators or we’d give up on the ...

Apparently it’s traditional in Australia to celebrate Australia Day by eating barbied lamb on the beach. That’s if you can evade the forest fires and sharks. So farming outfit Meat and Livestock Australia and Sydney agency The Monkeys devised ‘Operation ...

Facebook’s a big global player in everything these days so it’s appropriate, in a way, that it gives us its view of 2015. I assume this film from production company Whirlpool was completed before the recent Paris attacks. It’s easy ...

Michael Grade (now Lord Grade of Yarmouth – the one in the Isle of Wight – in the Conservative cause) is one of the ornaments of the British entertainment industry. A member of the Grade entertainment clan, his first job ...

Coca-Cola wanted to show that it was bringing Christmas joy to Mexicans with this somewhat patronising film showing a bottle top Christmas tree delighting a Coke-snorting community. It’s now been pulled after complaints from all and sundry, from the Mexican ...

It’s quite possible that some of our readers in France were caught up in the appalling events of Friday 13, almost certain that some of them knew someone who had been. On these occasions, of course, you feel relieved if ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell likes years with big events – he reckons, correctly no doubt, that advertisers flood in to such things like lemmings – and they don’t come much bigger than the US presidential election. Nearly $12bn has ...

As if Volkswagen didn’t have enough on its plate, eco warriors Greenpeace are launching a Halloween campaign ‘Trick. No Treat’ targeting the German carmaker over its use of defeat devices to chart emissions testing. Greenpeace campaigner Areeba Hamid says: “This ...

IPG’s Mullen Lowe seems to have settled its rather embarrassing legal problems in Brazil, closing its Brasilia office in the process. Former Borghi/Lowe executive Ricardo Hoffman has been indicted for making payments to a Brazilian congressman through shell companies owned ...