Politics
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WPP ups its bid to handle government communications with Sean Larkins hire
WPP’s Government & Public Sector Practice has poached the UK government’s one-time deputy director of government communications Sean Larkins as…
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John Hegarty and Richard Curtis team up to push United Nations’ ‘Global Goals’
The United Nations, increasingly viewed as a useless talking shop, is launching a set of ‘Global Goals’ to try to…
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Drayson Technologies picks five agencies for CleanSpace air quality drive
Lord Paul Drayson (left) was the minister for science and innovation in the Blair/Brown Labour governments and now runs Drayson…
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WPP’s Sorrell unveils healthy profits but warns of patchy GDP growth and stingy clients
WPP’s first half results are pretty much as we forecast yesterday – no crystal ball, alas, just the usual corporate…
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Publicis Groupe drawn into Rato scandal in Spain
Spain is currently embroiled in a financial scandal dating back to the financial crisis and one of the leading figures…
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Back to the drawing board for mayoral hopeful Ivan
An agency called London Advertising produced this video for London mayoral hopeful Ivan Massow, an entrepreneur and gay advocate. London’s…
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Matt Williams: why Unilever’s The Foundry takes the CSR argument an important stage further
Inevitably, there’s a hell of a lot of talk here at Cannes about advertising for good. Maybe it’s people feeling…
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George Parker: the MAA idiot’s guide to US elections
You guys have just gone through a General Election. It dragged on for almost six weeks and lots of money…
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Did the big money Fifa sponsors nix Sepp Blatter?
Fifa boss Sepp Blatter (left) is resigning, even as we write this, which surely testifies to the belated realisation on…
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