Politics

I’ve just seen some political madness from a group of Labour MPs who have called for an end to ads for ‘boys toys’ and ‘girls toys’, claiming that they limit the prospects of girls later in life. Not boys, just ...

You would miss your loo if it wasn’t working for whatever reason – if you didn’t have one at all it would be life threatening. This is the theme of London agency Now creative director John Townshend’s film for tomorrow’s ...

A very entertaining drama is being played out at London’s Old Bailey courthouse, best known for celebrated murder trials over the decades. This one, of course, involves lesser matters: charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and concealing evidence of ...

Some years ago a company I was involved in produced a number of magazines for JWT EMEA called Out of the Blue: designed to promote JWT, they won two WPP Atticus awards and lots of other plaudits besides. One of ...

The coalition government may have been driving agencies up the wall with its convoluted selection and procurement policies (now via the newly-constituted Government Communications Service) but Peter Scott’s Engine Group seems to have mastered the art of form-filling. Engine has ...

***It’s been an interesting old week, for me in the dawning realisation that the bigger companies get (and the more they spend on CRM and all that stuff) the worse they become. We’ve had two members of the energy cartel ...

The UK coalition government, which has managed to get its communications knickers in a fine old twist, is having a belated go at sorting things out with the formation of a new ‘centralised’ Government Communications Service. This, presumably, takes on ...

  In just seven years Droga (above), 45 and one of his six children raised in Australia, has created an agency that ranks with BBH and Wieden+Kennedy (both 30 years old) as one of the best in the world, one ...

With the Ed Miliband/Daily Mail saga running in to its third week it poses a very interesting question about being careful what you wish for. The delicate balance between the interests of politicians and the media has become a road ...