If Labour’s Ed Miliband wins the General Election – or Labour ends up as the largest party, which is more likely – then it will be a well-deserved kick in the unmentionables for Britain’s increasingly absurd right wing press. As ...
Read More »How ‘Red Ed’ Miliband won the UK election ad campaign
I’ve no idea who’s going to win Thursday’s election – the latest polls shows the Tories and Labour neck and neck on 33 per cent, as they pretty much have throughout – but we can, at least, offer a view ...
Read More »Labour’s Ed Miliband badly needs a smart ad agency – but it doesn’t looks as though he’ll get one
Ads, and the efforts of admen, will play a role in May’s General Election but, probably, a lesser role than the admen would hope. So far there’s been one well-aimed punch, M&C Saatchi’s poster for the Conservatives featuring Labour leader ...
Read More »WPP’s Sorrell talks some much-needed sense as British business bashes Labour
There seem to be lots of British businessmen – or businessmen who do business in Britain – who don’t care for the prospect of a Government led by Labour leader Ed Miliband – and not just because of his nasal ...
Read More »Paul Simons: Ed Miliband/ Mail row shows why PR can be a loose cannon – with ads you get what you pay for
With the Ed Miliband/Daily Mail saga running in to its third week it poses a very interesting question about being careful what you wish for. The delicate balance between the interests of politicians and the media has become a road ...
Read More »Mail finds it’s run out of allies in attack on Milibands
The Daily Mail seems to have finally and, some would say, disastrously overstepped the mark with its attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband’s late father Ralph, a leading left wing academic of his day. The Tory-supporting Mail, obviously seeking to ...
Read More »Jane’s Diary: does the ad industry really want to upgrade the status and prospects of women?
Marlene Hore (left), the Canadian grand dame of advertising, said that when she was executive creative director at JWT in Canada in the 1980s, she thought: “I’ve opened a door for women – lots will follow. But they haven’t.” Depressingly, ...
Read More »Would you take on the Labour Party’s election advertising or is it the brief from hell?
The next UK General Election is still the best part of two years away – assuming the coalition government between Tories and Lib Dems lasts that long – but Campaign reports that the Labour Party (still the likeliest next government ...
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