Is it better to be a tortoise, or to strive for hare-dom? The question is answered in the tortoise’s favour by the Financial Times. Well, at least insofar as final salary pension schemes are concerned, for if you read this piece you will learn that of two men aged 21, who are assumed to have [...]
As the row over MPs’ expenses intensifies, we take a look behind the scenes at a leading Sunday newspaper’s editorial conference. Editor: Who have we got for the weekend? Chief News Reporter: Gordon Brown. Editor: Excellent! What’s he been claiming for? Junior Reporter: Election lessons. Editor: Really? Junior Reporter: Yes. Editor: What do mean, election [...]
The Times has an interesting piece today by Frances Gibb on legal costs. Its peg is a mammoth report on civil litigation from Lord Justice Jackson, the Court of Appeal judge. Among many proposals to deal with the soaring cost of going to law is one to end the centuries-old principle that the loser pays. [...]
Newcastle’s Thinking Digital conference sees long-time blogger Stowe Boyd lament the decline of blogging. Blogs rhyme with slog. It’s a small part of the population. It’s too much work…. The heat and dynamism of blogging is gone. Blogging has moved to the mainstream and its place, says Boyd, are micro-blogging social media applications such as [...]
We’re sorry, but this Gorkana alert just doesn’t sound right: The Independent On Saturday The Independent began its move to Northcliffe House in Kensington. The new address is Independent News & Media, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5HF. What else is to be found at 2 Derry Street? Not the newspaper which is the opposite [...]
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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).