It may be hard to imagine nowadays, but there was a time that British trains were reputable.1 So when British rail launched an advertisement depicting…

The car models, cognac brands, or lines of clothes in the ads that I spotlight on this blog have often disappeared, but at least those…

The chess history website on which this blog is a weird, possibly malignant, tumour includes only tournaments from the year 2000 or earlier. The reasoning…

Technically speaking, I haven’t yet filleted any public service announcements on this blog. But they are really just advertisement under another name, so I’m not…

As the year draws to its end, all its calamities and horrors parade once more before my eyes and I realise it’s been a particularly…

To me, Fiido sounds like someone has lost his dog and is now calling for it everywhere, 1 hoping against all hope that it will…

I have featured an advertisement for watches once before on this blog, but that was ages ago. Before X, 1 before corona, hell, before the…

Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…

Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…

I don’t think I’ve ever spotlighted suits here, probably because it wouldn’t suit me. That is probably why the guy in today’s subject looks so…