Advertising Standards Authority

Ryanair has had a public spanking this week at the hands of the Advertising Standards Authority over the former’s bill board claims that they are bigger, better, faster, cheaper and reliabler than a certain land-lubbing train route from London to Brussels (well, they don’t actually …

Something we covered a while back has finally been resolved with a win for the faithful: A Gay Police Association (GPA) advert which linked a rise in homophobic attacks to religious belief breached advertising rules. The advert showing a Bible and a pool of blood …

So how’s that for a sensationalist headline. Job at Fox news now please? Of course we don’t mean that Muslims have been banned from the tube, rather that the word has been removed from the advertising campaign for new US thriller series: Sleeper Cell. Sleeper …

Are Reebok glamorising gun crime? Lucy Cope of Southwark believes so and has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority regarding an advertisement featuring 50 cent. Mrs Cope’s son was shot dead outside a London club three years ago and she considers the current Reebok advertising …

How many times have you heard it? You’re stood in the queue in some fast food restaurant and some ‘wit’ in the line behind you says: “Those pictures on the menu…they look nothin’ like that in real life you know.” Really? You mean the huge …

If you’ve been on the tube recently you might have seen the adverts for the morning after pill Levonelle One Step which have a bit of a Christmas slant. One seems to suggest that even if you have sex once a year (i.e. at the …