The voters make fools of us all from time to time (including we hacks) and it looks as though 2015’s General Election has been one such instance. Most of the polls have been proved wrong (except a so-called ‘rogue’ one ...
Read More »Tories take the wrong road while Labour fixates on the NHS – don’t you love General Election campaigns?
I suppose we’d better write something about this: The governing Tories have kicked off their British General Election campaign (polling day is May 5) with a crappy poster showing the road ahead with them. Trouble is it’s supposed to be ...
Read More »Andy Coulson convicted of phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks and co found innocent
What to make of the verdicts in the great phone hacking trial? Former News of the World editor, Downing Street head of communications and lover of Rebekah Brooks Andy Coulson (left) has been found guilty of conspiring to hack phones ...
Read More »Why are big companies assholes? The Tea Party and Davy Crockett, Eurostar, Spontex and Johnny Cash
***It’s been an interesting old week, for me in the dawning realisation that the bigger companies get (and the more they spend on CRM and all that stuff) the worse they become. We’ve had two members of the energy cartel ...
Read More »UK newspapers set to spoil politicians’ Leveson deal
Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved cross-party consensus on regulating the press. Everyone, it seems, is a winner. Dave has gambled – with losing a vote ...
Read More »RKCR/Y&R celebrates BBC’s 90th, IPA rages at UK government, Droga5 debuts for Coke Zero
A rich mixture then. ***RKCR/Y&R (please call it Y&R, RKC and R have cleared off) has produced this nice film to celebrate the BBC’s 90th birthday, featuring some of its greatest hits. Oddly, there’s no Jimmy Savile. But I can’t ...
Read More »UK PM David Cameron goes in for some Borg-style brand-bashing at Davos
If it weren’t for the fact David Cameron (left) watches so little television, I would be forced to conclude he has been modelling his recent behaviour on Borg, the Viking Himbo now fronting Tesco’s advertising. How else to explain his ...
Read More »WPP’s Sorrell says to David Cameron: you’re barmy to promise a UK referendum on the EU by 2017
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, is in Davos along with lots of other movers and shakers (he likes the place, he met the current Lady Sorrell there) and, he, like lots of other UK business leaders is aghast at ...
Read More »Sorrell, Branson and co blast PM Cameron over EU referendum – have it now and get it over with!
Sirs Martin Sorrell and Richard Branson and sundry other business luminaries have written to the Financial Times blasting tbe UK PM’s plans to hold a referendum on Britain’s EU membership. This is scheduled after the next General Election, which David ...
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