Tweet No question the hottest story of the week has been Brandgate, pushing Robert Peston and the recession off the front pages and onto the backburner. Things moved fast today when the BBC announced first the suspension of Brand and co-broadcaster Jonathan Ross, then Brand’s resignation. The fate of Ross remains unknown but Brand was […]
Held to account
Published in October 10th, 2008
Tweet Ever been without a bank account? With the turbulence on the global financial markets over the past few days, not having a bank account probably seems like a pretty good idea. BBC Magazine looked at the difficulties of surviving in modern society on cash alone. The story touched only briefly on the concept of […]
Dirty old town
Published in September 22nd, 2008
Tweet “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford”, Samuel Johnson famously wrote in 1777. I am neither a man nor tired of life, but I tired of London a long time ago. Leaving London was one of my better ideas. […]
The invisible older woman
Published in September 4th, 2008
Tweet Itâs not been a good week this week if you are female and over 30. First, the news broke that newsreader Selina Scott is to bring an age discrimination claim against Channel 5, as yet another older woman vanishes off our screens, as Joan Bakewell so eloquently wrote yesterday. Today, the latest report on […]
Fessing up - my failures at ethical consumerism
Published in August 27th, 2008
Tweet Journalist Sally Whittle, she of the fabulous Getting Ink blog, has tagged me in a meme, first started by Dom at PR-otagonism. The idea is to admit publicly to the products you use that normally you would be too ashamed to admit to in polite company. Iâm not mad keen on memes, but this […]
Why it's not grim up north
Published in August 14th, 2008
Tweet If youâve been following the news the last couple of days, youâre no doubt aware of the Cities Unlimited report published by Policy Exchange. A Tory think-tank, Policy Exchange has been ridiculed even by David Cameron for the absurdity of its proposals, such as how northerners should all move south because otherwise weâre doomed […]
The obscenity of the Olympics
Published in August 8th, 2008
Tweet Itâs here again. The sporting spectacle that is about so much more than pure sporting prowess. Iâm not a massive sports fan but I might find it in me to admire the Olympic ideal if it was only about sport. I find it depressing that the reality is that the Olympics is about pretty […]
