The ultimate TV dinner

Can you survive four weeks eating only food advertised on TV? Tom Lamont takes on the challenge

Memory in the digital age

With its unlimited capacity to store information, we should celebrate the internet's ability to enhance our collective social memory

Facebook apologises for deleting photos of girls pretending to breastfeed

Pictures on an NHS-backed breastfeeding group of two girls pretending to feed dolls were removed for 'policy violation'

Posters banned for ‘trivialising’ cosmetic surgery

ASA rules ads suggested breast surgery was 'risk free' and were likely to be seen by young girls. By Mark Sweney

Groupon ad ‘pressuring’ consumers into hurried cosmetic surgery is banned

Email offered discounted surgery including breast enlargement if customers booked before midnight. By Mark Sweney

Don’t knock advertising. It buttresses our freedom and democracy

Response: Far from trashing our happiness, it helps society move towards civility and tolerance, says Tim Lefroy

Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we’re hooked on it

George Monbiot: We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction. Yet this column depends on it

Dale Carnegie’s self-help bible gets a new life for the digital age

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age includes advice for bloggers but keeps rules of the 1936 original

Reebok to give refunds after toning shoes fail watchdog’s no-sweat test

Head of the FTC consumer protection bureau said 'there is no such thing as a no-work, no-sweat way to a fit, healthy body'

Resisting the supermarket tantrum – and the flirty cartoon cow

Sarah Ditum: Food companies and commercial broadcasters are never going to help you in your quest to stop your child's demands for junk