The Advertising Association recently held an excellent debate at the House of Commons where it offered, somewhat ironically, the motion 'Advertising is bad for your diet'.

For quite a long time, 15 years or so, I've had a nagging, amorphous suspicion at the back of my mind. I've chosen not to take it out and examine it more carefully in case I didn't much fancy what I found. Better to leave it there, I thought.

'There are two ways of writing about the future,' wrote Bertrand Russell in the 1920s,1 'the scientific and the Utopian. The scientific way tries to discover what is probable; the Utopian way sets out what the writer would like.

Heaven knows the world of advertising and marketing has become increasingly heavily regulated in recent years, but no other sector has seen an initiative quite like the 'Treating Customers Fairly' (TCF) initiative launched in financial services la

The current economic model is unsustainable in the long term.

The professional services industry is vast and varied. One estimate puts its revenues at $700 billion worldwide and another suggests that it employs up to one in five workers in the developed world.