Political Christmas gifts 2017

I’ve seen a few vendors of exciting, politically-themed Christmas merchandise and I thought it would be remiss of me not … More

Republicans for Democrat Doug Jones

Alabama, a state which has voted for the Republican candidate at every US Presidential election since 1980, is holding a … More

Starting a political movement

A new range of tools, from online poll makers to crowdfunding platforms, have made creating and running a professional political … More

Electoral Commission proposals to reform political advertising don’t go far enough

Yesterday the Electoral Commission published their first report into spending around general election 2017, which included a series of suggested … More

Social media, segmentation and political advertising

This week there have been three brilliant articles which give perspectives on political segmentation and running effective election campaigns using … More

Would Trump win again one year on?

Donald Trump was elected as President of the USA on 8th November 2016 and has had a controversial first year … More

Oxfam: tax avoidance hurts the world’s poor

Oxfam have released a new ad which dramatises the argument that tax avoidance deprives developing countries of funds for vital … More

We all bleed

Today is the United Nations ‘International Day of the Girl’. A day which aims to draw the world’s attention to … More

Who’s inside the Russian Doll?

New research shows that the US Presidential campaign run by a Russian state-sponsored troll farm was highly professional; this is … More

Who should regulate political advertising?

This week I was asked by Campaign, a leading marketing trade publisher, as to whether the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) … More