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Getting Shirty

Wednesday 14th July 2010

I read a couple of versions of this story the other weekend and I was going to dash off a quick post in response; but time was tight and I wasn’t sure of my facts, so I decided to wait until both those issues were remedied before commenting. There’s a moral in there, somewhere, for [...]

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Tribes

Wednesday 30th June 2010

So, a great result for England on Sunday, no? Another fine victory over our greatest historic tribal foe. Makes one proud to be English, doesn’t it. Sarcasm? Me? Oh no, sorry, you misunderstand. Were you still thinking about the football, and Germany? Oh well, I’ve already moved on; to cricket, and yet another one-day international [...]

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Street Life

Saturday 13th March 2010

It could be said that criticising the media is like shooting fish in a barrel. True, and therefore it is the ideal sport to engage in when you want to dash off a quick blog post. So here it is. Google Street View is a “service to burglars” announces the Daily Telegraph. It concerns the [...]

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End Of The Road

Tuesday 14th July 2009

After casting his eyes over the current media landscape, Nik Johnson felt moved to tweet: Hey! You know what ITV do REALLY, REALLY well? Fucking nothing. Well now, I think that’s a bit harsh. The new series of Jimmy McGovern’s The Street began last night, and although it is broadcast on BBC1, I noticed yesterday [...]

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Copy Right

Tuesday 19th May 2009

Hey; it’s been a while since I used a really lame pun as a title around here ( “The ‘More’ Gauge” being merely lame). Hey; it’s been a while since I’ve used anything as a title around here that didn’t include either “twitter” or “on a plate” somewhere within it. But let’s put those titles [...]

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