Politics

Which is that this film from Amnesty International and Cossette Montreal is actually making the case for Russian girl band Pussy Riot who had the effrontery to challenge Russian premier Vladimir Putin – and were consigned to the nick for ...

Comings and goings at 83 per cent state-owned UK bank RBS don’t usually engage our attention but UK chancellor George Osborne’s apparent decision to get rid of RBS CEO Stephen Hester (left) should. Because RBS remains a huge bank, despite ...

AMV/BBDO in the UK has won the Total Greek Yoghurt business and it’s produced a kind of homage to Hovis in this film plugging Total’s heritage – in production since 1926. Greek yoghurt seems to be taking the world by ...

Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks (left) is finally to have her day in court, over two years after proceedings began against her on various counts including phone hacking, conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office (paying policemen for ...

New Japanese prime minister Sinzo Abe is trying to drag the country’s economy out of its decade-long slump with a policy aimed at reducing the value of the yen (which should help exports) and creating two per cent inflation, which ...

Agencies tend to do good work for charities and (let’s be polite) less good work for businesses – while they should be capable of doing equally good work for both. But charities are big clients these days (media agencies love ...

That’s what Michael Chertoff, former US Secretary of Homeland Security and now a consultant, told CNN anyway. Which may be overdoing it a bit; most people these days seem fairly happy to trade an invasion of privacy for the latest ...

First up Huntsworth boss Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) says he wanted to buy leading Chinese PR firm Blue Focus. But now BF, led by Oscar Zhao (left), has, in effect, turned the tables by buying 19.8 per cent ...

With a new series of Mad Men on our screens and the death of Margaret Thatcher (indelibly attached to the UK adland of the 1980s), advertising has made one of its periodic trips over the wire; entering mainstream debate as ...