What, no songs about office life? Yes, this would appear to be true, for as the FT has it – reporting on last week’s Guardian list of the 1,000 best pop songs ever written – there was virtually nothing on the joys of sitting behind a desk, talking on the phone, attending board meetings, going [...]
What a feast of bunkum has been served up by the Mail about poor Jade Goody. This mawkish piece, by Jan Moir, purports to be an insightful analysis of Ms Goody’s life and times but is merely an excuse to re-run just about every archive photograph of the late Ms Goody in the Mail’s possession. [...]
Sir Fred Goodwin may not win many votes in a popularity poll, but he is beloved of one group of people. Step forward those lovable lads (for they are always lads) on their Vespas, the paparazzi. As the Guardian has it here, Posh and Becks are so yesterday as paps all over Britain try to [...]
Suzanne Moore may have had plenty of reasons to criticise that standard bearer of the intellectual left, the New Statesman, for which she was a columnist and contributing editor, but why on earth did she choose the Mail on Sunday as the forum in which to do so? Alastair Campbell, who prompted much of her [...]
Today’s leader by Catrin Griffiths in The Lawyer revisits the evergreen topic of legal education, following Slaughter and May’s decision to separate the recruitment process between law and non-law graduates. The Lawyer ran a story picking up on the firm’s evident inundation with applications by non-law graduates, and, as Griffiths writes, not everyone appears to [...]
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).