Monthly Archives: December 2009

As 2010 looms, perhaps we need to party like its 1649… not 1499. And to recognise that, maybe, the world is indeed turning upside down

30 December 2009 – 6:20 pm

‘In 1649
To St George’s Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Come to show the people’s will
They defied the landlords
They defied the law
They were the dispossessed
Reclaiming what was theirs
‘We come in peace’ they said
‘To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common
And to make the waste land grow
This earth divided
We will make whole
So it [...]

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An open letter to the Media Acquisition Dept, Royal Bank Of Scotland: Case of bonus first, brain second people…?

26 December 2009 – 2:20 pm

Given the festive season is now firmly upon us, maybe it’s time for a Xmas teaser.
OK… what have the four following posts got in common?
i) http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44765&c=1
ii) http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44792&c=1
iii) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/scottish-giant-johnston-press-close-to-refinancing-163500m-debt-1776020.html
and
iv) http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/02/23/chapter-11-now-filed-in-the-story-of-fred-the-shred-brian-p-tierney-and-philly-media-kiss-good-bye-to-more-of-our-millions-folks/
And the answer is…?
The Royal Bank of Scotland. Us, in other words.
The poor, down-trodden UK tax-payer who has been left to mop up in the [...]

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The trick is to understand ‘local’. Right now, some of us get it; some of us don’t. Matt Kelly does; LongStreet1980 doesn’t.

9 December 2009 – 12:18 pm

In amidst all the noise and thunder that surrounds Murdoch’s epic struggle to get Google’s nose out of his trough, this post from the WAN gathering in India last week got rather less attention than, IMHO, it deserved.
It also found me, briefly, sticking little pins into LongShanks1980 for revealing a little trait that is becoming [...]

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