Politics

The UK finally has a new bank, the cornerstone of the Government’s banking policy, although it’s arrived rather by accident. Lloyds Banking Group was told by the EU to get rid of 632 branches as punishment for being helped out ...

Pakistan is one of those countries that you get a certain view of from news programmes – and, mostly, you go along with former England cricket star Sir Ian Botham who famously observed that it would be a good place ...

Time was when full and half year figures were enough of a mystery for men with large dogs to patrol the printing sites used to bring such news to investors. Which was how Williams Lea, owner of TAG among others, ...

Here’s a poser for Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP (left), who’s due to announce his first half numbers later this week (and answer questions about how the PubliCom merger might affect WPP). A few stories have been leaking out, from ...

Adidas and retailer Foot Locker have a tie-up in the UK through which Foot Locker gets first crack at top-rated Adidas kit. One piece of such is its new ‘Hart Court Defender’ shoe (below) and it’s the star (along with ...

Those masters of the nearly lost art of making 30-second commercials, Leo Burnett London, are back with us again – this time squeezing a fair proportion of the French Revolution into an ad for Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (as you ...

We have a monumental housing crisis in the UK, where young people (in particular) can’t afford to get on what we cheerfully call the ‘housing ladder’ because they don’t have any money for the deposit, let alone paying the mortgage ...

Should we be surprised that newspapers – in the case one of the world’s most famous the Washington Post – have become rich men’s trophy assets? The $250m sale by the Graham family of the venerable title to Amazon founder ...

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 ...