Archive for June, 2007
Did Magna Carta die for nothing?
The current government has over the past tens years brought in some draconian and frankly very scary legislation. A good catologue of this chipping away at the bed rock of the nation’s civil liberties can be found at http://deborah4twickenham.com/?p=70 This is the blog of the Conservative candidate for Twickenham, Deborah Thomas. Its refreshing and timely [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Domes, Bobbies and the 2012 Olympic logo
According to Metropolitan Police Chief Richard Brian, the 2012 London Olympic Board is ‘too slow and convoluted [and] not fit for purpose.’ Its security arrangements for the games are dangerously flawed. ‘At the moment, we do not think it is fit for purpose and, on resilience issues, we do not think it is properly engaged.’
Games [...]
The Men in BACC ban egg ad
In a blog on this site I said I thought the standard of TV ads and the people who created them had dropped considerably since the early days, when adverts were produced by some of the most creative minds in the country – I was thinking specifically of Fay Weldon and one of the all time [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )If Microsoft made toasters
I believe that Microsoft’s domination of the PC software market has dulled and altered our expectations of the ‘fit for purpose’ and ‘use from the box’ aspect of all – not just computer software – products we now shell out our hard earned for.
Everyone knows that any new Microsoft product – particularly operating systems – will not work [...]
Legacy, legacy, legacy, enough already!
There are a number of words and phrases that over the last ten years have been brought into disrepute by Tony Blair and his cronies. “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” is one for instance. “Pensions” is another. The latter has become such an overused, degraded, word, it has became taboo for anyone in government to use it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Royal in the buff
Just heard on the BBC 24 live channel this description of the Queen returning to Buckingham Palace after the Trooping of the Colours ceremony: “The Queen, we are told, is dressed in apple green and Prince Phillip is sat beside her in his bearskin.’
Close your eyes and read it out aloud for full effect.
Celebs in queues and eye lines on tubes
I was queuing up today (to buy a bottle of water if you must know) in a busy high street shop. While I was waiting – looking round to find a fellow queuer to startle by speaking to them – I noticed the young girl at the checkout was having a problem with a customer. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Coe and Blair interview – surely this must be a spoof?
Since the unveiling of the new Olympic Logo the online satirists have had a field day taking the **** sample out of Seb “I am not bland, who me bland?” Coe. So, when I found a site that declared it had a full transcript of an ‘interview’ between Lord Olympic and Tony Blair I took the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The rain-forests thank you Mr Cameron
During a speech given yesterday David Cameron promised that timber dealers and furniture makers found in possession of illegally logged wood may face prosecution should his party ever gain power and bring in new laws to help protect rain-forests.
Now don’t get me wrong I am all for protecting rain forests – even though we haven’t [...]
Why we surprised those responsible for the London 2012 olympic logo
How was it that neither the London 2012 Olympic Committee nor the marketing company they paid nearly half a million pounds had any idea of the magnitude of negative criticism they would receive after the unveiling of the new logo?
During the sixties and seventies when mass advertising was taking off on a huge scale the industry employed some [...]
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