Famous British actor and hell raiser Peter O’Toole (of Lawrence of Arabia fame) died last week, which is a great source of regret. My friend and sometime colleague George Parker recalls an occasion when he joined a poker school consisting ...
Read More »From now on ads should be no longer than five seconds says former enfant terrible Trevor Beattie
Trevor Beattie, the founder of Beattie McGuinness Bungay, did a turn at the Advertising Week Europe conference today at which he announced that 30, 60 and any other second ad above five was a waste of time and space – ...
Read More »BBC top duo of Entwistle and Patten caught asleep at the wheel as Jimmy Savile horror story unfolds
You have to feel for new BBC director-general George Entwistle – no, not that way – who has walked into the biggest minefield the corporation has faced since Andrew Gilligan’s carelessly-worded (but true) allegation about Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell’s ...
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