What does the phone-hacking scandal tell you about YOU?
The Armchair guru speaks… What does the phone-hacking scandal tell you about YOU? It was an outrage when we heard Milly Dowler’s phone had been hacked. It was the time when it became about the non-celebrities that Press blood was sought with justification beyond any doubt. If they are hounds, then we were the wolves. [...]
Is the environment the new opiate for the masses?
The Armchair Guru speaks…. Over lunch this weekend we had a discussion about the weather, the environment and global warming. No-one around the table was quite sure what the impact of global warming was. Before you think, d’oh don’t you know, do you really know what you are talking about? Scientists continue to debate the [...]
Illegal Immigration: would you report your neighbour?
Always a favourite hobby-horse of politicians and journalists, it seems that immigration, and illegal immigration in particular, is rarely out of the news these days: barely a day goes by without someone fanning the flames of fear and suspicion for their own ends. UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently gave a speech about his plans [...]
Olympic Games Sponsors Compete with Marketing Ambushers
The organisers of the London 2012 Olympic games are investigating around 50 ”ambush marketing” instances a month, which has highlighted how legal protection for sponsors has not developed with the advancements of social media. The use of social media since the Beijing Olympics has increased at such a rate that the London Games next year [...]
11/11/11/11 – Have we forgotten what we should be remembering?
Armistice Day (Veterans’ Day in the USA) – whereby we remember the fallen at the exact same time, day and month as the World War One Armistice was signed Compiegne, France, in 1918 – takes on a special significance for us. This year at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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