Boris Johnson is expected to announce later today that he’s resigning as Conservative Party Leader but intends to stay on until the autumn until a new one is elected. Who will, barring further UK political earth tremors, be the next ...
Read More »Dorries’ elevation to Culture and Sport may be bad news for Channel 4 and the BBC
In theory the UK’s secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (quite a bagful if you think about it) should play a big role in the fortunes of the ad and media industry. But there’ve been ten of ...
Read More »UK government moves to sell Channel 4 are “a solution searching for a problem”
One thing that unites all Conservative governments in the UK is their desire to sell Channel 4, a free-to-air channel set up by their heroine Margaret Thatcher to challenge the duopoly of BBC and ITV. Indeed in its early days ...
Read More »Now bumbling Boris stars in Geenpeace’s ‘Wasteminster’
Controversial British prime minister Boris Johnson gets it in the neck for lots of things (mostly deservedly although it doesn’t seem to prevent him winning elections.) But he probably didn’t expect to cop it from Greenpeace for the UK’s seemingly ...
Read More »Do we really need another hectoring from the Government – this time on middle class drug use?
Headlines are funny things. Campaign has one today: Government looks to adland to reduce cocaine use. Now we know that adland has some enthusiastic snorters but surely Boris and co. have more pressing issues on their mind than this? What ...
Read More »Boris and co. take Covid mixed messages to another level
Britain’s NHS did indeed launch its allegedly super duper track and trace app over the weekend – with a veritable advertising blitz – and, as we might have, expected it doesn’t work properly, not for everyone anyway. But the real ...
Read More »Boris Johnson’s unwelcome blast from the past
At the same time as a writer in PM Boris Johnson’s other employer the Telegraph surmises that Boris has six months to save his job amid the coronavirus testing fiasco, a number of minds have gone back to 1979 and ...
Read More »Ben & Jerry’s launches ice cream salvo at UK government immigration policy
Ben & Jerry’s was always likely to be an unruly member of the Unilever family but in the nearly 20 years since the FMCG giant bought it for north of $300m, life’s been pretty sweet all round. That may change ...
Read More »Newly-ennobled Lebedev wields axe at Evening Standard
Will the new post-Covid normal have amy newspapers in it? The London Evening Standard, which is given away at tube and train stations and some supermarkets, is cutting a third of its workforce including a load of commercial jobs (my ...
Read More »