WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell is going to have to wait a bit longer to become Lord...
It’s only a matter of time of course but WPP”s Sir Martin Sorrell missed the cut to be ennobled as Lord Sorrell in the Queen’s Birthday honours (it’s not her real birthday but her ‘official’ birthday)....
View ArticleLord Bell rejects connection between Gulliford deal and VCCP’s easyJet win
Lord Bell, chairman of Chime Communications, has written to me regarding our story about Chime’s acquisition of Gulliford Consulting for a maximum price of £4.75m. We noted that Simon Gulliford, former...
View ArticleEarly death of Philip Gould reminds us of the days when admen ruled the UK...
And Philip Gould (latterly Lord Gould) wasn’t even a particularly famous adman before he was chosen by New Labour presiding genius Peter Mandelson (later Lord…etc, etc) to be the about-to-be-revived...
View ArticleLord Bell under pressure as even his Tory mates turn on him over Bell...
There’s no-one more free market than Tim Bell, Lord Bell as he now is, whose attitude to taking on PR clients at his main PR business Bell Pottinger, is that of the London barrister who compares...
View ArticleNow Bell Pottinger is dragged into the phone-hacking scandal as it tells News...
Well this is all a bit peculiar and no mistake. The Daily Telegraph alleges that Lord Bell’s PR and lobbying company Bell Pottinger advised its client Rebekah Brooks (pictured), former editor of the...
View ArticleThe real story behind the Bell Pottinger buy-out leak
How ironic, you might think, that a momentous development at the UK’s leading PR company should only come to light through an untimely leak. Lord Bell (pictured) and Piers Pottinger, respectively...
View ArticleBell Pottinger spin drama isn’t resolved yet
Tim Bell’s getaway plane has received permission to take off from the control tower and is now taxiing down the runaway. But will it actually manage lift off, or be bought back to earth with a pancake...
View ArticleWhy former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was UK adland’s greatest patron
One doesn’t want to be parochial about these events – we’re reminded of issues of far more moment than the fortunes of adland by the death this morning of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher –...
View ArticleAdvertising takes one of its periodic trips into the spotlight – but does it...
With a new series of Mad Men on our screens and the death of Margaret Thatcher (indelibly attached to the UK adland of the 1980s), advertising has made one of its periodic trips over the wire; entering...
View ArticleNow Charles Saatchi faces trial by 24/7 media
It’s been quite a few days for adland and the media world’s finest: BBH’s Nigel Bogle gets a knighthood (good), Rupert Murdoch is divorcing Wendi Deng (depends on your point of view) with all sorts of...
View ArticleWould you take on the Labour Party’s election advertising or is it the brief...
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...
View ArticleWill the real Charles Saatchi please stand up?
Those of us who knew Charles Saatchi (or Charlie before he became important) in a previous life to a greater or lesser degree (lesser, in my case) must be completely mystified by the latest turn of...
View ArticleLord Bell’s memoir ‘Right or Wrong’– is Tim Bell really Roald Dahl’s...
The Fantastic Mr Fox, you may recall, is a Roald Dahl story about a fox, a much-decried species in the English countryside, who triumphs over his adversaries (boorish humans) through a mixture of...
View ArticlePaul Simons: a timely blast from the past from Tim Bell
Tim Bell was one of a long line of politics commentators talking to BBC News from College Green the other evening. He was on around 7.30, live, approximately 90 minutes after the Chablis is normally...
View ArticleBell Pottinger spin drama isn’t resolved yet
Tim Bell’s getaway plane has received permission to take off from the control tower and is now taxiing down the runaway. But will it actually manage lift off, or be bought back to earth with a pancake...
View ArticleWhy former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was UK adland’s greatest patron
One doesn’t want to be parochial about these events – we’re reminded of issues of far more moment than the fortunes of adland by the death this morning of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher –...
View ArticleAdvertising takes one of its periodic trips into the spotlight – but does it...
With a new series of Mad Men on our screens and the death of Margaret Thatcher (indelibly attached to the UK adland of the 1980s), advertising has made one of its periodic trips over the wire; entering...
View ArticleNow Charles Saatchi faces trial by 24/7 media
It’s been quite a few days for adland and the media world’s finest: BBH’s Nigel Bogle gets a knighthood (good), Rupert Murdoch is divorcing Wendi Deng (depends on your point of view) with all sorts of...
View ArticleWould you take on the Labour Party’s election advertising or is it the brief...
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...
View ArticleWill the real Charles Saatchi please stand up?
Those of us who knew Charles Saatchi (or Charlie before he became important) in a previous life to a greater or lesser degree (lesser, in my case) must be completely mystified by the latest turn of...
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