For this month’s Badvert, we have something slightly different than our usual focus on airlines, cars and fossil fuel companies. As we have directed our focus towards other harmful types of advertising in recent months (see, for example, our Emerging Issues in...
The overall winner of this year’s awards was Saudi Arabia following the Kingdom’s decisive and vast push into the global sports industry through a number of investments and commercial partnerships. Other awards were handed to Shell, TotalEnergies and British Gas,...
Company: BWM Location: Brussels, November 2023 Following a recent flurry of adverts for electric vehicles (EVs) by some of the world’s largest carmakers, one could be mistaken that these companies are taking decarbonisation as a serious matter. The reality is rather...
Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for the UK. The New Weather Institute is part of that survey published in the paper today, and here are our responses collected together....
A second ban on ads for Repsol within just five months has raised eyebrows and serious questions about the ability of advertising regulation to keep greenwashing in check. Back in June, when the ASA banned a suite of ads for three of the world’s largest oil and gas...
The glorious victory by 750,000 people, orchestrated by very skilful trades unions, to keep railway station ticket offices open, is important for a whole number of reasons - not just the obvious ones of convenience to passengers and the retention of accumulated...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
