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My Arts: Edit Wars

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

What would the Messiah’s LinkedIn profile look like? Handel had a good crack at setting it to music in 1741, with skills including ‘Wonderful’, ‘Counselor’ and ‘The Prince Of Peace’. So far, so consistent. Steve Miller was far less focused with his CV, which in 1973 included ‘The Space Cowboy’, The Gangster Of Love’ and… [...]

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My Arts: Spambots and storytelling

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

Thank you for my most excellent post full of useful knowledge. I have genuine opportunity to read something that is good for you and much cheaper than anywhere else. I will certainly bookmark this for my further use. Were this blog written by a spambot (or indeed Yul Brynner in character as King Mongkut of [...]

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My Arts: How to save our world?

Posted on November 10, 2011 by admin

I’ll cut to the chase: think ‘lateral’. What do you mean ‘spelling error’? I meant lateral, not laterally. This week I attended a presentation at the RSA by the pragmatic ecological guru Jeremy Rifkin. His current, central thesis is that we will save the planet by trading domestically generated, renewable and sustainable energy via the [...]

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Quantum Society

Posted on November 3, 2011 by admin

During the past few years there has been very little uplifting news for any of us. We’ve been waiting for our politicians to show some vision and leadership but they’ve decided, for now, that we need more pain. More than at any time in my lifetime, our nation seems to be sitting on its hands. [...]

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My Arts: Corporate Social Abdication

Posted on November 3, 2011 by admin

The joke goes something like this: Norman is stood on a window ledge thinking of jumping off. The crowd shout, “Jump Norman, jump!’ (You can spin this bit out as long as you like – and depending on how risqué/unreconstructed you feel, you can place Norman in a public/community institution of your choosing). Eventually, Norman [...]

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My Arts: Love shacks?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

Am I the only person who thinks that The Specials should re-release Ghost Town? The sentiment and lyrics capture the zeitgeist perfectly, and if you can’t be bothered to listen to the words, there’s a thumping/exquisite bassline, depending on which side of the KFC/Prêt å Manger divide you sit (personally, having just read Fast Food [...]

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My Arts: A sound idea?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

Financial institutions of one flavour or another have been falling over themselves in recent months to manage reputations justly and unjustly smeared with the ordure flung violently far and wide by the economic meltdown – which we shall hereafter refer to as ‘The Event’ (with apologies to Mitchell and Webb). Unfortunately, for the most part, [...]

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My Arts: iPound of flesh

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

So, it turns out that iTunes doesn’t just become a permanent digital monument to your poor taste in music (or that time you were a bit pissed at your dinner party and downloaded ‘Samba Classic Vol 4’); it – along with its accomplices iPad and iPhone have been accused of KEEPING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR MOVEMENTS [...]

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My Arts: Gizmos and cosmos

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

And so to The Body Farm in which Tara Fitzgerald has reprised one-woman-forensic-team ‘Eve Lockhart’ from BBC1’s Waking the dead. Alongside her is DI Craig Hale a.k.a Keith Allen who put in, I thought, a very decent turn, despite the fact that I kept expecting him to break into a chorus of Vindaloo at any [...]

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My Arts: Home truths

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

Bell’s managing partner in China, Christie, was asked recently to speak on ‘brand Britain’ in China, and asked me what I thought the key brand issue was for foreign entities hoping to build a UK-facing brand. I think that one of the main points is that the UK is not one, homogenous ‘people’. One of [...]

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