Marketing magazine published its annual Britain’s Biggest Brands survey this week. And what’s this I see?
A new entry at No.45? The highest percentage growth of any brand on the list? 120 million sales this year? Who could it be but&#8230[…]

Years ago – in 2000, to be exact, I had a blog called Blue Lines. I was one of the first 100 or so people in the UK to have a blog, for what that’s worth (nothing, you might think, and in a just world you’d be right). Blue Lines was[…]

One of those moments when you check with other viewers to see if they heard what you heard. Courtesy of BBC London News 8:30 am bulletin this morning, presented by shamefaced, postbox-mouthed Matt Barbet :
“The price of the average house in Lo[…]

A special treat for Mark S: 
One should not use the terminology established by the non-believers and the polytheists, like: ‘foul’, ‘penalty kick’, ‘corner kick’, ‘goal’. Whoever pronounces these terms[…]

the reporter just described it as a “country layered in history” — AS OPPOSED TO WHERE?[…]

ever since two junior footslog reporters toppled a US president 30 years ago, the american mainstream media has liked to get ahead of the game by giving a beltway scandal a “-gate” suffix, in honour of the watergate, the vast, swanky wash[…]

martha kearney ur teh cuet but USE OTHER WORDS PLZ[…]

OK, I don’t expect party election broadcasts to be just one old, white, public school educated bloke sat behind a desk reeling off a list of things their party has done/will do if you vote for them, and i know it’s difficult to run a nati[…]

I like entering competitions on the web. It strikes me that I am unlikely to win them, but you’ve got to be innit to winnit innit. I have won competitions before, including tickets to Glastonbury, Reading and some free flights to Scotland. Inde[…]

I am sure if not certain that someone has done some work on this somewhere, but it strikes me that there is clearly a line to be drawn between elections and football teams. In particular the colours worn by football teams and the colours which repres[…]