Last week Steve Parker, Strategy Partner at M&C Saatchi, gave a presentation to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising about…
General election 2017: the factors that mattered most
This is a film of a presentation I gave last week, 3 days after the results of general election 2017,…
A view from inside the Labour campaign
This week I saw Matt Watts, Planning Director at Krow, Labour’s advertising agency, speak about their work for the party…
The “strong and stable leadership” narrative wasn’t the problem
I’ve seen a few articles saying that the Tory campaign fail can be attributed to Crosby’s insistence on message discipline…
Theresa May is in the DUP’s pocket
As Theresa May is negotiating with Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, to create a parliamentary pact I…
7 reasons for Labour’s relative success at general election 2017
1. A viable strategy: retain Labour’s 2015 vote and add disaffected Labour supporters and young people who didn’t vote in…
Last days of general election 2017
Yesterday I discussed the final days of the general election campaign with Sam Delaney, author of seminal political advertising book…
Attacks on Abbott take their toll
Jeremy Corbyn announced this morning that shadow home secretary Diane Abbott is to be replaced by Lyn Brown, the shadow…
Labour supporting posters
I’ve seen a few Labour-supporting posters which are independent from the official campaign that are worth sharing. Unite Unite, a…
7 observations on general election 2017
There’s less than three days to go until voters cast their ballots in general election 2017 and the polls are…
