“Her deathly silence, frankly, irritates me”
03 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment
Ever charming veterans minister Kevan Jones has had a pop at Joanna Lumley’s “deathly silence”. Apparently she hasn’t done enough to help the Gurkhas…
Back up.
John Terry; son, brother, friend, brand?
06 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: Branding, Chelsea, England, John Terry, Marketing, morality, Tiger Woods
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.” More
Cheers
06 Feb 2010 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, andrew lansley, calories, Conservatives, Health green paper, Nuffield health
Forget finding out Santa doesn’t exist. The single most devastating truth of adulthood is, without a doubt, the fact that alcohol has calories. More
The millennium bug? God we were all so stupid back then
27 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: 7/7, banks, collapse, economy, hedge funds, manilla, Millennium Bug, natural disaster, pensions, terrorism, tsunami, Y2K
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
01 Jan 2010 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: BA, British airways, Chilcot, climate change, Cop15, Copenhage, environment, rage against the machine, RATM, Simon Cowell, Tony Blair
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”
The University of Life
04 Sep 2009 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: 2009, Admissions, Brody Dahl, Courtney Love, Degree Course, Journalism, Study, the blogpaper, UCAS, University
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!
“Clearly at odds with reality”
27 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: Afghanistan, John Salisbury-Baker, lies, MoD, Post Traumatic Stress, The Independent, Troops
The issue of British troops and their compensation claims against the Ministry of Defence was a can of worms to say the least.
Whilst there was suitable anger regarding the definition of “injury” and “conditions”, the recent news a MoD Press Officer is to sue for “being forced to lie to families” has, where noticed, failed to stir support. More
Th final run on The Bank of Jade…
27 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: Jack Tweed, Jade Goody, Law Suit, Max Clifford, News of The World, The Mirror
Despite the appeal five years ago, when it came to the crunch I didn’t felt entirely comfortable watching the hideously schadenfreud circus that was Jade Goody’s slow and painful death.
Baffled by the extreme coverage and feeling slightly cynical about the inevitability of Mother’s Day, I used my well heeled skills of indifference.
Said furore calmed sooner than expected; on only two occasions since have I opened a newspaper to see Jackiey Budden’s gappy grin or Jack Tweed’s poor impersonation of a man in mourning. Some would claim it a success. So when Press Gazette reported Budden and Jade’s grandparents are to sue Mirror Group Newspapers for privacy and breech of confidence, my shit-o-meter hit 10. More
Because you’re worth hits…
27 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment
in The Blog Paper Tags: Cerberus, Internet, PR, Social Media Marketing, Web 2.0
In the last few decades the world has gone number-crunchtastic; the nature of the digital age has not only assigned numerical value to everything, it’s detracted all other value from everything else. Everything we own, use, need and contribute to is “worth” something. More
