Government Increases Spending on TV Advertising
More government propaganda advertising to enjoy in the run-up to the General Election. What a coincidence!
Television channels are likely to record an increase in advertising revenues in March. The sudden surge of government campaigns, likely to hit television by 21 March, prior to the General Election, is expected to cause an 8 per cent rise year-on-year.
About £255m, roughly £20m more than what was spent last March, is likely to be spent on television advertising alone. The government’s ads will form the chunk of these advertisements.
Still, it’s only taxpayers’ money: plenty of that to throw around alerting us to the dangers of chlamydia.
A Vision of England’s Past
This isn’t how I remember ‘postindustrial England in the Thatcher years’:
Slate reviewing the Red Riding trilogy.
Red Riding’s mood—gritty, anguished, and unremittingly bleak—is a persuasive vision of the particular hell that was depressed postindustrial England in the Thatcher years.
