Politics

Is the political battle over Covid-19 about semantics? Boris Johnson’s UK government is fond of a slogan – ‘Get Brexit Done’ and all that – but now there’s a battle about its shift to ‘Stay Alert’ as the UK moves ...

It’s the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe), celebrated in suitably boisterous fashion at the time as a grateful world bade goodbye to Adolf and his odious cronies. Piccadilly Lights owner Landsec and operator Ocean Outdoor have donated ...

The pandemic has delivered human, social, and economic costs across the world which will affect us for years to come. According to YouGov, UK consumer confidence has sunk to its lowest level since 2012 and 86 per cent of people ...

American political advertising is red in tooth and claw and anti-Trump Republican group The Lincoln Project is putting the boot in – in vintage style – with ‘Mourning in America’ criticising Trumps’s handling (or non-handling) of Covid-19. To add insult ...

Latest data from Ada, Talon’s proprietary Out of Home data management platform, shows that traffic across the UK is slowly rising, up by 4% during week 5 of the lockdown when compared to the previous week. Out of Home media ...

Sport England is trying to persuade the nation to take more exercise, even though it has to be (mostly) at home. And that’s the problem. Sure they’re right when they say we’re taking far less exercise and perhaps right to ...

Ten days ago we noted that the UK’s Covid-19 crisis could turn into a political crisis – and it has. At the weekend the Sunday Times’ Insight Team – once the vanguard of investigative journalism in the UK, more recently ...

I see that Omnicom’s BBDO, arguably the most successful global creative agency in business terms over the last ten years is axing staff, including New York CCO Greg Hahn. Well we all have to take the pain. After this is ...

The BBC’s having a pretty good war in the crisis, reminding people everywhere (and hopefully some politicians) about its purpose in life. Here’s a further reminder from BBC Creative (also turning into a good idea) showing us the changes affecting ...