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The UK’s death toll fronm Covid-19 hit 980 today, higher than the worst days in Italy and Spain. Yet we had two weeks to learn from what was happening in Italy and much more (although restricted) about China. Health Secretary ...

Unilever’s Dove is putting a new face on its ‘Real Beauty’ mantra, with ‘Courage is beautiful,’ showing healthcare workers bearing the marks of the protective equipment they need to wear treating Covid-19 patients. And the attendant exhaustion. Originated by Ogilvy ...

Interpublic’s MullenLowe has become the most high profile agency to announce Covid-19 lay-offs with ten per cent of the agency’s US staff out. They’re being offered three months’ healthcare. The timing’s a touch sneaky, just before Easter. It won’t be ...

When you’re enduring yet another Saatchi & Saatchi Kevin Bacon EE ad (the fairly recent effort with cook Delia Smith was unendurable) you wish the boy would calm down a bit. Well he has in this well-timed offer of free ...

In the 1990s Tesco set about transforming itself (yes business transformation was around even then) from its former ‘pile it high, sell it cheap’ Green Shield stamps days. Leading the charge was this campaign from Lowe Howard-Spink featuring Dudley Moore ...

Ocean Outdoor is combining good works with business in a new long term deal with Artisan Drinks, which makes craft mixers. The digital Out of Home campaign incorporates messages aimed to inspire and promote creative ways of social distancing including ...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is doing her bit to persuade people to stay home in the virus, but going the extra mile for California governor Gavin Newsom. Celebs saying they’re on our side too have become rather tedious. Doing without your “glam ...

At some stage we’ll have to go back of work, meaning the office. At least some of us will, probably single people under the age of 30 who don’t live with their parents. That’s what the FT thinks the Government ...

BASF is hardly a household name but the German company is said to be the world’s second-largest chemicals producer so it’s pretty substantial. WPP has been struggling in the US of late so the appointment of VML/Y&R to handle its ...