John Lewis
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Fintan O’Toole: Liam Neeson speaks the language of the lynch mob
- Film
- February 9, 2019
Images have been rising from the depths of America’s consciousness like swamp creatures in a 1950s B-movie. They are ugly, violent and all about race.(...)

London Briefing: Christmas 2018 one of the toughest for retailers in years
- Retail & Services
- January 9, 2019, 05:31
Britain’s hard-pressed retailers are queuing up to deliver news of how they fared over the festive season, culminating in “Super Thursday” tomorrow, b(...)

Patrick Freyne: Be afraid, be very afraid of these Christmas ads
- Culture
- December 1, 2018, 05:00
Ever since that classic ESB ad trapped a young Alan Hughes into a lifetime of doing panto, we’ve known that Christmas advertisements were creepy and w(...)

Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations: Straight out of The Handmaid's Tale?
- Interiors
- November 27, 2018
In a Christmas tradition on its way to becoming as hotly anticipated as the annual release of the John Lewis ad, or a stony-faced five-year-old explai(...)

Patrick Freyne examines some of the new additions to the Christmas calendar
- Culture
- November 24, 2018, 05:00
Black Friday (November 23rd) You clutch the bloodstained Furby you have wrestled from a crying child while simultaneously kicking an octogenarian awa(...)

Christmas ads: Instilling the festive spirit (greed, avariciousness, gluttony)
- Culture
- November 23, 2018
We have, in these parts, managed to resist the annual hubbub surrounding the John Lewis Christmas advert. Nobody has talked much about the current inc(...)

Are Black Friday ‘bargains’ to be trusted? Perhaps not always
- Retail & Services
- November 21, 2018, 05:13
Perhaps the £5 million John Lewis is rumoured to have spent on its Elton John Christmas advert will be worth it after all: the retailer boasted on Tue(...)

Meet the ‘real’ John Lewis, star of Twitter’s Christmas ad
- TV, Radio, Web
- November 20, 2018
Every year the frenzy around John Lewis’s Christmas ad results in an American lecturer with the same name as the department-store chain being mistaken(...)

Stacey Abrams hopes to make history in state with oppressive legacy
- US
- November 3, 2018
The rain was torrential but the atmosphere was electric. In an empty parking lot on the outskirts of Macon, a town about 130km south of Atlanta, crowd(...)

Wedding planners, Brexit marchers and a voyage on the good ship Titanic II
- Economy
- October 26, 2018, 05:55
In numbers: Wedding trade 250 Number of wedding planners from around the world attending this week’s sold-out Engage! Luxury Wedding and Event Busin(...)