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Mother’s Day is said to have been invented by Hallmark Cards in 1920 but this manufactured event has taken on a more significant meaning, in the UK at least, with the Covid-19 virus wreaking its havoc. PM Boris Johnson, who ...

It’s pretty clear that the world economy will slide into recession this year (some definitions of recession are less than two per cent growth, in the UK it’s two quarters of negative growth) and the hitherto booming global ad market ...

Sometimes it’s better just to give people the news straight. Here’s Ministry of Defence Spokesman Ian McDonald in 1982 on the Falklands War, and the many reverses that encounter entailed. McDonald was much mocked at the time but people believed ...

I caught up belatedly with Boris Johnson revealing the outcome of his (somewhat delayed) Cobra emergency cabinet committee meeting, when he seemed to be making some fairly sensible “steady as you go” comments about the COVID-19 outbreak (better give it ...

There are some booming activities in these straightened times, unfortunately people trafficking is one of them. According to UN data 2019 was the year with the highest human trafficking rate of the decade, 24.9 million people with 88 per cent ...

The days are at last getting longer, birds are singing in the trees, the first buds of spring are nosing through the soil, and across the world of advertising and marketing, thoughts are turning to love. Or, more specifically, to ...

Red Brick Road has been appointed as lead PR and social agency by maker Kinnerton to promote Nomo, claimed to be the UK’s leading free-from chocolate brand. Nomo is dairy, gluten, egg and nut free. Red Brick Road will also ...

We all wondered what Harry and Meghan, about to be freed from royal duties would do next, and now we know some of it – Prince Harry (he’s still a prince and the Duke of Sussex as far as we ...

All publicity is good publicity? Not in the social media age it isn’t. Boris Johnson’s new chancellor Rishi Sunak, an unfeasibly rich Yorkshire dweller (he married into the Infosys family and is a former hedge fund partner) probably thought he’d ...