The consequences of Brexit are becoming more clear with Bank of England governor Paul Carney trying to steady the economic ship by relaxing banks’ capital requirements in the hope, possibly forlorn, that this will encourage them to keep lending. Commercial ...
Read More »Media’s big guns launch Gove into Tory leadership fight
The most interesting person is UK politics isn’t Boris Johnson – still less Jeremy Corbyn – but Michael Gove, the former education secretary and friend of David Cameron who deserted Cameron to support the Brexit cause in the EU Referendum. ...
Read More »UK adland faces up to challenging future after shock decision to quit EU
Should be an interesting morning here in the sunny environs of Cannes as a fair chunk of the global advertising, marketing, media and tech industry tries to come to terms with Britain’s surprise (some business people would say amazing) decision ...
Read More »Paul Simons: why the referendum campaigners need to home in on the key issue – immigration
The best bit of propaganda in the public domain regarding next week’s voting on the In or Out EU debate is the latest for the Remain cohort. Looks like an old fashioned 48 sheet poster (hurrah) with the image of ...
Read More »Will agencies have a big part – or just a bit part – to play in 2015’s political bunfights?
“Boris moves in for the kill” bellowed the Daily Mail’s front page earlier this week, as the bumbling mayor of London, shirt hanging out no doubt, announced, after days of procrastinating, that he was to back the ‘Brexit’ camp in ...
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 ...
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