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The coalition government may have been driving agencies up the wall with its convoluted selection and procurement policies (now via the newly-constituted Government Communications Service) but Peter Scott’s Engine Group seems to have mastered the art of form-filling. Engine has ...

The follies of the UK’s coalition government know no bounds and now this collection of muppets – who promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ when it came into power in 2010 – has produced a procurement system for agencies that ...

It’s all doom and gloom in dear old Europe and here’s WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell to cheer us up further (not). Martin reckons Eastern Europe looks the best bet, what with shale oil in Poland (aren’t we supposed to have ...

Before the last UK general election the Liberal Democrats signed a ‘pledge’ not to increase student tuition fees. And then promptly agreed to them being tripled followed a Labour-instigated review by the ludicrous Lord Browne, former head of BP who ...

For a couple of years at least the UK media markets have been defying gravity, showing reasonable growth (in the circumstances) despite a wider economy that’s stagnant at best. Over the weekend UK PM David Cameron (pictured) will be hobnobbing ...

Former News International boss James Murdoch was up before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today and, while James escaped pretty well unscathed (in part due to his professed reluctance to read evening emails revealing phone hacking on a grand ...

McCann London has just produced its latest ‘Moody Britain’ survey (the last was in 2010) and it reveals a rather surprising degree of stoicism among Brits who are still being battered by economic headwinds although we’re still not very keen ...

Few in the ad industry will lament the departure of Steve ‘Yoda’ Hilton, David Cameron’s director of strategy. Indeed, such is the relief that he is going, some would willingly pack the diminutive ‘blue sky’ thinker’s bags, as he contemplates ...

Well the bloke hasn’t had much to cheer him up recently, having lost a million quid bonus and been vilified by politicians of all hues, mostly for their own hypocritical purposes. Why hypocritical? Labour fuelled the City’s bonus culture and ...