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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 ...

Well that’s the logical conclusion from this story which appeared on Brand Republic last week, which I only caught up with today. Apparently one of the contenders lost its homework so the process has been delayed. Here’s the story. In ...

Ambulance-chasing ads drive you up the wall if, like me, you end up watching too many digital channels of an afternoon as you escape from the computer before commencing the evening’s entertainments. But Now, the agency we forecast might become ...

As most ad people in the UK now know, the COI (Central Office of Information), which handled government ad campaigns among other duties, has been nixed to save money; fair enough as the COI spent the stuff as though it ...

It may of course be a coincidence. But I suspect not, given the close timing. No sooner has Professor Terence Stephenson, speaking on behalf of 200,000 doctors, called for a ban on ‘junk food’ brands sponsoring sports events than up ...

New London agency Now calls itself an “agency for the accelerated world” but in its early days the agency seemed to go into rapid reverse. The agency was formed by former COI boss Mark Lund last year, seemingly with the ...