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Once upon a time there was the COI (formerly Central Office of Information) that handled UK government advertising and marketing. In its last knockings it was run by Mark Lund, now head of McCann group in the UK. The COI ...

The UK coalition government, which has managed to get its communications knickers in a fine old twist, is having a belated go at sorting things out with the formation of a new ‘centralised’ Government Communications Service. This, presumably, takes on ...

For years, you’ve run your own brand consultancy. After successfully selling it, you step into the limelight as chairman of the Central Office of Information, only to find that mad axeman and part-time cabinet minister Francis Maude is cutting off ...

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 ...