What is the Periodic Table of FreakyTrigger? The best way to describe it is to firstly say what it is not, and then to say how it was made. If it all makes sense after that, then this truly is a project that you might get something out of. Here it is[…]

Its is twenty five years of the Sony Radio awards. Do Sony even make radios anymore? Anyway as an occasional avid listener to radio, I always keep a wary eye on the machinations of this awards bash. It is an odd industry bash, one which provides enou[…]

In the old days, we used to link a lot to good blogs we’d found. I think this practise should make a comeback, starting with Dial “M” For Musicology, which is a wide-ranging, generous-minded and jargon-free look at music and music d[…]

Century Falls was one of the children’s drama series that kicked off Russell T Davies’ career: I’ll come clean and say it’s unlikely I’d ever have watched it if not for this connection to Doctor Who – I was curious which of Davies’ c[…]

On Saturday, a crack FT team took it upon themselves to brave the wilds of North West London, in order that we could report back to you, dear reader, on the condition and facilities of the nu-Wembley stadium. We did it all for you, you ungrateful sod[…]

The film Sleeping Dogs (intelligently but less catchily titled Stay in the US, also known as the equally clever and Sleeping Dogs Lie) has one of the best opening lines I can remember hearing in the cinema. Now opening lines are hard to get right, an[…]

Anticipation for the Wii and its ‘killer’ game Zelda: Twilight Princess had ‘unreasonably raised expectations’ written all over it. What creative game developers will be able to do with the wiimote is still in the stage of pre[…]

Maybe many brits aren’t aware, but thems ‘mericans start DST early from this year. At work, our New York office has only been four hours behind for the last few weeks. Finally this monday we get that all important fifth hour of peace befo[…]

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[…]