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As the winter drags on, it seems like #occupy is falling out of the headlines; in the US it’s probably due to the coverage that’s being given to a bunch of millionaires fighting to prove who is the most Christian (camel? Needle?) In the UK a lot of it is probably being taken up by stories about [...]

I spent last night at a comedy event at Dublin’s Vicar Street: Europe’s favourite black American comedian, Reginald D. Hunter supported by rent-a-shocker ‘Aussie c***’ Steve Hughes. I’ve been a big fan of Hunter – how challenges accepted points of view, particularly those relating to the relationships between blacks & whites and I was looking [...]

de·bate/diˈbāt/ Noun: A formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward. Verb: Argue about (a subject), esp. in a formal manner On Friday night, as you probably know by now, the historian David Starkey made some comments on Newssnight that have caused something [...]

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H.L. Mencken In the run up to this year’s election David Cameron spent a lot of time talking about Big Society (or BS as some have taken to referring to it, apparently without any irony): [...]

This month’s UK edition of Wired has

It’s almost impossible to imagine how the ongoing stories, about the thousands of little ways that MPs were trying to slip as many pennies out of the system as they possibly could, can possibly get any worse. And yet, every day, in every way, they do. With all this news of petty corruption, coupled with [...]

This makes me fucking sick. I can’t say I felt particularly strongly about the demonstrations either way, and always felt that the oficers in the De Menezes case were in an impossible position, but the pure unnecessary nature of this police brutality, and the horrific impact it will have had on Ian Tomlinson’s friends & [...]

So, apparently Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP for South East England (and therefore one of my representatives), told the PM what’s what in a display that has people from New York to Norwich proclaiming how amazing he is (I’m not going to do him the favour of putting the video on this site). Well, perhaps [...]

Yesterday, as I’m sure I don’t need to point out, saw the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. We had an event on here at work where we invited clients to watch it, served food & drinks (with an American theme) and gave a couple of presentations on lessons for marketers [...]

Along with minced pies, repeats, The Queen’s Speech and a vague sense of unease the morning after the office party (what I refer to as THE FEAR), Google’s annual Zeitgeist list is fast becoming a Christmas tradition. It’s a list of the phrases that have been searched for the most over the preceding 12 months [...]