The news last week that the Christmas advert from Iceland — a UK supermarket chain specializing in frozen food — has been banned is a bad decision. Iceland’s advert — a repackaging of a short, ...

Liana Chua receives funding from the Arcus Foundation and the European Research Council (Starting Grant no. 758494). Most of these responses revolve around the (inaccurate but powerful) claim that ...

Update – November 12: Following the huge reaction to Iceland's Christmas advert on social media, a petition has now been launched to ask Clearcast to unban the advert so it can be shown on TV this ...

The boss said the controversy around the ad being prevented from broadcast on legal grounds has "re-written" all of the traditional rules. Last month, the grocer revealed it had inked a deal with ...

The spot, which highlights the impact of palm oil on the environment, was blocked from TV by ad vetting body Clearcast because it “contravened the prohibition on political advertising”. Between the ...