From the monthly archives:

July 2011

Chart The Week IS BACK!

July 8, 2011

  Chart The Week was a fun series hosted by Ricard Bacon, with me as weekly panelist, on 5Live last summer. Now, Richard has brought it back as part of his weekday afternoon show on the same station. It’ll be every Thursday and yesterday I appeared on the first episode, along with the comedian Zoe [...]

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Ad chat at Royal Society Of Arts

July 7, 2011

Six years ago I wrote a book about the Golden Age of the British ad industry called ‘Get Smashed.’ Not that many people were interested in it at first but about a year later Mad Men came on telly and suddenly everyone thought stories about ad executives were way cool and interesting. That’s why the RSA are [...]

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John Bercow: not his fault he’s a dickhead?

July 6, 2011

I wrote this column in The Guardian today. It’s about John Bercow, speaker of the house of commons. I call him a dickhead. Bit schoolboyish that sort of language really, isn’t it? Well, what do you expect? You visited this site.

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