John Terry; son, brother, friend, brand?
It’s increasingly common that, as a story develops some bizarre angles will be explored. At journo school we sit in a class room throwing ideas, some brilliant, some bizarre, at a bewildered teacher. It’s much how they do it in the real world.
At Television Centre yesterday, some quick thinking whippet had a eureka moment and said “Let’s get a brand expert to talk about the decline of Terry’s brand values.” Read the rest of this entry »
Cheers
Forget finding out Santa doesn’t exist. The single most devastating truth of adulthood is, without a doubt, the fact that alcohol has calories. Read the rest of this entry »
The millennium bug? God we were all so stupid back then
I always hated the phrase “Y2K” there was something very “dad trying to be cool” about the whole ring it had.
And the millennium bug, remember that? The theory that computers couldn’t cope with all the zeros so everything from automatic doors to nuclear warheads would destroy mankind at the stroke of midnight on millennium eve.
Not a vote for festive morality
Some festive lessons in voting from the ghost of Chilcot past, the ghost of Cowell’s future and the ghost of Cristmas “oh my God do something now”
Art up your street
Year three, assignment one; Write, design and lay a four page supplement about the environment with a 1500 word double spread feature, supported with multimedia for an online version.
Ladies and gents, the infamous graffiti feature… Read the rest of this entry »
The University of Life
Thousands have been refused admission to university this year, but are they really on the scrap heap? A word to the wise… apply to the university of life!
The Bunny Blog
Courtesy of the Association of Cruise Experts, I sailed on the Carnival Splendor, July 2008, on the condition that I masqueraded as a 17 year old Bunny. This is the resulting “Bunny Blog”, currently posted on the ACE website Read the rest of this entry »
Screws of the World: Throwing away our right to a free press since 1969
It’s the paper that brought hundreds of criminals to justice, exposed sex scandals, tapped Royal phone lines and relentlessly stalked celebrities.
The current situation at News of the World needs little introduction. But for those recently returned from Mediterranean beaches, African safaris and trips to Mars, here goes… Read the rest of this entry »
Have a break… Have a free house, a pool and a chauffeur to be exact
Human nature has inspired a whole host of wonderfully complex and intriguing debates; nature/nurture, original sin, predisposed personalities. So surely the next debate will be, if nobody’s watching, does everybody take what they can? Read the rest of this entry »
A match made in retail heaven
Look into any large multinational and you’ll find many an unlikely match: L’Oreal buying the Body Shop; Unilever, owners of Ben & Jerry’s; Proctor and Gamble producing Pringles; and now Coca Cola has a stake in Innocent smoothies.
