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This article from The Independent discusses the UK’s increasing love for fine foods and throws up some interesting stuff: The growth of retailer premium private label food ALONGSIDE organic and fairtrade maybe shows how much ethical buying is status as much as morality. Intersting to see that M&S may well lose out on two fronts…
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And so to the Times. This was the last planned paper in this experiment, but I may as well push on and do the Star, Independent and Guardian in the next week or so. First of all, it’s a lot to get through – 32 pages on pure news, with opinion sandwiched in the middle.…
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Few would disagree that Global Warming has moved from a peripheral issue to one of the defining challenges for mankind. But on the grand scale of Earth’s history, it’s still pretty cold. The polar ice caps have come and gone many times. The last ‘Ice Age’ never ended, we’re still in it. It just happens…
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So we move on to the Sun. I’ll review today’s Times on Monday. This is the paper that alledgedly decides British General Elections, easiest the nations best selling newspaper. If you want to get into the mindset of the people, this is a good start. First off, Page 3. Today it’s Keeley. It doesn’t stop…
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Thanks to the newspaper project, naturally I’ve been thinking about what really matters to people and how to include them in politics, espescially the young and by happy coincidence I found this at PSFK. Myspace US is launching a competition called where members post a 60 second film of their views on the state of…
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I had a conversation on the phone last night with an old friend. It doesn’t matter what it was about, but it reminded me that when you get older, friends become like family. I don’t mean in the surrogate family sense – you know young people who have all moved away to different cities – …
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One’s thing for sure, the days of Piers Morgan are well and truly over. A while back he tried to make the Mirror a more serious paper and cover issues in depth. Sales plummeted. No wonder then that the front page is devoted to Leona from the X Factor. Most of the paper is devoted…
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‘Let’s see what’s out there’. Jason’s got an interesting quote on planning. Gemma’s new blog is already a place for useful advice like this and this. Love have some sober reflections on the future. Interuption is a word you here a lot these days, Marcus has a post that gives another perspective and is also…