With Britons basking in warm May sunshine and the prospect of a hot summer to follow, 2014 could be a year when the consumer barometer sizzles.

One of the great strokes of luck in my life was working with Stephen King.

Words get stripped of their meaning if used too often. This is called semantic satiation: words progressively lose their potency through over-repetition.

An elderly Thai man is helping a woman his age put her shoes on. 'Who are you?' she suddenly asks. The man sighs.

Following the Marketing Society Asia launch event a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been reflecting on my five years to date in China.

More than 1 billion people in Asia have used social media in the past 30 days, and the numbers are still growing steadily.