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March 15, 2019

WHO urges governments to enforce bans on tobacco advertising and sponsorship

The World Health Organisation has urged governments to enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship at sporting events, including when hosting or receiving broadcasts of Formula 1 and MotoGP events.
February 17, 2019

New standards on gambling advertisements 'a lost opportunity'

A Church of England General Synod motion will demand tighter regulation of gambling advertising.
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.