Magnus poses the following burning question. And I read:
This is a question for the people with marketing knowledge, and the marketers that lurk inside us all:
Sony gave away a free HD-TV, worth a fair few pennies each, for anyone they found queuing […]

“I eat prosecution lawyers for breakfast! I eat them also for lunch! And for tea! And elevenses! And midnight snacks!”
No, ITV have decided that their plan to run inferior reality TV shows against Big Brother this year was, well, a bit st[…]

It is coming up to the time for the London Palestine Film Festival, which is run by the Palestine Society at SOAS, and has been a rip-roaring success over the past few years. Having gone from a small University only festival, to now having half their[…]

My week away has coincided with a packed week of sport. Between football (FA Cup action), the surprisingly surprising group stages of the Cricket World Cup and the final day of the six nations, the only thing that could have dragged me away from the […]

At the annual Tween’ Christmas And New Year Freaky Trigger Pub Crawl we always do a list. Such themed lists in the past have included the FT Top 100 Films Of All Time Ever 2003 and the FT Top 100 Songs. Many are started and not finished. But th[…]

I didn’t like Dirrrrrrrty when I first heard it. Indeed I probably heard it about twenty times before I finally got it. And that is when I saw it. I remember exactly where this was. In a hotel room in Brussels, Belgium.
How many moments of your[…]

So the most e-mailed news story at the moment on the BBC News Website* is Reggae Reggae Sauce going on sale. Seen as a triumph for the BBC programme Dragon’s Den, one assumes this is not just a good confident businessman, but a nice sauce too. […]

Now we know how mental the BBC Talking Points get. So one would imagine the humorous and pithy answers a woman moving back to the UK from Australia after thirty years would get to the question “Has anything changed?” Oh the fun, the gags […]

Anyone who moans about the increasing neighbourly attitude of the voting in the Eurovision Song Contest, should consider the difficult position of Israel. Recent winners (well, within ten years) their neighbours aren’t even IN the song contest.[…]

An annoying trend of current film and television is the set-up. By being aware of the set-up you can nearly always work out who the murderer and the method is in CSI (or at least one of these). The cast iron rule of the set-up is, anything which is g[…]