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An institution is no place for me…
What do the Boat Race and the Grand National have in common? Nope, it’s not the possibility of a protestor turning up at any given opportunity, nor the impressive achievements of finely-tuned, elite athletes. It is actually the fact both are excruciatingly painful snoozefests, which have garnered puzzling popularity and an utterly baffling status as [...]
The joys of spring
I’ve always liked to believe the weather doesn’t affect me. Why would it? I was born in December, raised in Manchester, prefer city breaks to beach holidays and did a year’s training in the Arctic tundra in order to become an SAS operative. Alright, some of the previous may not be true but I’m still [...]
When is a journalist not a journalist?
When is a journalist not a journalist? When he or she allows news content to be dictated by Google searches of course. Not the best punchline I admit and if you’re still waiting for the pay-off, you’re going to be waiting an awful long time. But in 2012, this is exactly the situation we find [...]
Big up the little man
As Ray Charles once crooned: “Twitter, Twitter, I’ve got Twitter on my mind.” Well, technically it was Georgia that the creator of modern soul couldn’t banish from his thoughts but what’s a little artistic licence between friends? Anyway, following on from last week’s Twitter twaddle, I’ve embarked on more social media musings. Too often the [...]
The youth of today…
I was intrigued by a bit of research I stumbled upon this week which suggested social media has overtaken television to become the number one pastime for 16 to 24-year-olds. Coming from a generation that was permanently glued to the goggle box, this news came as a bit of a surprise. Whether it was Transformers, [...]