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December 18, 2018

Fawcett Society welcomes new code banning gender stereotypes in advertising

The Advertising Standards Authority has announced that it will enforce a new code around gender stereotyping in adverts from June 2019.
July 28, 2018

Call for Brexit Facebook ads to be made public

The Electoral Reform Society says that voters have the right to know who pays for political advertisements and calls for a pause in online campaigning until the law is changed.
May 30, 2018

Local Government Association warning on child obesity rates

The Local Government Agency has warned that severe child obesity rates, which have been published for the first time, are contributing to a multi-billion pound ill-health time bomb.
October 20, 2017

Local Government Association responds to latest childhood obesity figures

The Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board has responded to the latest childhood obesity figures published by NHS Digital showing that obesity prevalence has continued to increase in the last year.
October 2, 2017

Councils call for greater curbs on gambling advertising

Councils have called for greater curbs on gambling advertising – including on TV and social media – to reduce the risk to vulnerable young people from potential harm.
November 22, 2015

The Lord's Prayer and bewilderment in the Church of England

The Church of England has expressed itself “bewildered” at the refusal of leading cinemas to show a short advertising film on the Lord's Prayer.
January 5, 2015

#RoadToRuin: political misrepresentation in an age of social media

For as long as there has been organised government, there has been satire. From Aristophanes to Steve Bell, power has been mocked: it is a mark of the spirit of freedom.
November 18, 2014

The uses of memory: looking beyond chocolate bars

The Blood Swept Land and Seas of Red installation is gone from the Tower of London. The disputes over white poppies and the British Legion's misuse of Eric Bogle's 'Green Fields of France' have died away. But in this centenary year of the start of the first World War, there is much remembering – both honest and contrived – still to be done.
May 13, 2014

Unilever apologies and donates to CND over 'Lynx Peace' advertisement

Following complaints about the ‘Lynx Peace’ marketing campaign, which CND described as 'co-opting' its symbol, Unilever has apologised and donated to CND's charitable trust.
December 20, 2013

TUC welcomes select committee report on pay day loans

The TUC has welcomed calls from the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee to ban pay day loan adverts from children’s television.