Politics

Channel 4 is promising to lift the lid on Brexit tonight (Monday) with a film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, the mastermind behind the successful Brexit campaign. The ever-ingenious Taylor Herring is promoting it with C4’s version of the ...

The British Army is harking back to Lord Kitchener’s famous World War 1 poster – ‘Your country needs you’ – in its latest gritty campaign from Karmarama. This time it says ‘your army needs you, and your resilience.’ (Another redundant ...

HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as was) is doing its cheerleading bit for embattled Brits in this Brexit year by reminding citizens of the UK’s major towns what we’re supposed to stand for. A continuation of its ‘Together ...

Nike’s ‘Nothing beats a Londoner’ from Wieden+Kennedy is one of those rare ads that gets better the more you see it; it is, indeed, a compelling summary of what London is like for Londoners in many of its aspects. There’s ...

Photographer Jimmy Nelson’s eponymous foundation seeks to preserve indigenous peoples and cultures and JWT Amsterdam and India (guess they’re still called that) have combined to lend a hand. The quick-cutting can be oppressive but all is revealed at the end. ...

Mother is orchestrating another punch in the unmentionables for the “dirty palm oil” industry by asking the UK’s schoolchildren to help keep the companies concerned to their word as some have promised to end their nefarious ways by 2020. Rang-tan, ...

Can a perky Christmas tune persuade us to love the EU and push for a second referendum? The People’s Vote campaign thinks so and agency BBD Perfect Storm has risen, somehow, to this rather daunting challenge. We’re the turkeys who ...

Nike is continuing its crusade against racism with an ad featuring Manchester City and England player Raheem Sterling who was racially abused in a recent match against Chelsea. This follows its lauded (and criticised in some quarters) ad featuring former ...

It’s arguably the biggest week of the year for the ad business (and many others of course) with a crucial Parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s Brexit plan due tomorrow (Tuesday) although it’s this column’s view that the Government may yet ...