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Walkers pulled the plug on its new advert yesterday hours after construction union Ucatt branded it insensitive and offensive for a “joke” resembling a fatal accident being probed this week.
The union hit out angrily at the planned the TV commercial, which saw ex-England footballer Gary Lineker having wet concrete poured onto him from a great height for refusing to share his crisps.
It aired during peak hours on Monday night — on the same day an inquest began into the death of 44-year-old father Rene Tkacik.
As unions sound the alarm on kafala-like dependence, FC Barcelona must decide whether their values extend beyond the pitch, writes KIVANC ELIACIK
From sexual innuendo about Blackpool Rock to Bob Dylan’s ‘God-almighty world,’ the corporation’s classist moral custodianship of pop music has created a roll call of censored artists anyone would feel honoured to join, writes NICK MATTHEWS