Advertising and agriculture feel at opposite ends of the universe we all inhabit. Perhaps the only similarity being the way both our professions are vilified…
Most see the act of saying something that has absolutely no chance of ever coming to fruition or doing something that has absolutely no chance…
There are many phrases to which I take exception. I hate dead metaphors such as “Achilles’ heel”. I hate euphemisms that are designed to disguise…
To celebrate the 55th series of Have I Got News For You, the show’s team captains, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton gave a now infamous…
All my heroes are equal but George Orwell is more equal than others. I’m not taken to affection for old Etonian propagandists, after all there…
Adam Lury, one of the founders of the late, great and greatly missed HHCL, is perhaps one of our least recognised planning legends. The exponent…
During an early 1950s tour of the recently modernised Ford plant in Cleveland the President of the United Automobile Workers Union, Walter Reuther, was shown…
Mumstock is the only marketing conference in the UK devoted to improving the woeful standard of marketing to mums. We have been at it for…
The resurgent UK bookseller, Waterstones, recently stopped selling Amazon’s Kindle. For all Kindle’s convenience in accessing and consuming printed material it is a terrible way…
I’ve been having a pop at digital advertising recently. About how ad blocking is the fault of all of us that create online advertising. No…
I have never understood the belief that advertising dollars should follow people’s time. The assumption that if people spend 50% of their time some place…
Ask most secondary school aged kids how to prevent scurvy, a disease they will have had little contact with and they will tell you,…
