The Telegraph’s crusade to boost its circulation and revenue – sorry, expose the corruption endemic in British politics – continued on the weekend, with the Sunday Telegraph publishing details of sundry second (and third, and fourth, and even fifth) jobs held by MPs.
Yes, that’s right. Many MPs are paid for doing things besides submitting imaginative [...]
In yesterday’s Observer, David Mitchell lambasted those who still – poor, antediluvian souls – blanche at the sound of swear words on TV. Those same people don’t particularly like swearing in public, per se, and they’re not keen on beholding four-letter expletives in print media, either. For Mitchell, they are reactionaries who cling to an [...]
Blade feels ever so slightly disheartened by the media spin given to Samantha Stein’s brand new wheeze,a “summer camp for the children of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and all those who embrace a naturalistic rather than supernatural world view”.
Stein has set up Camp Quest UK to host a five-day retreat near Bath this summer in [...]
The Independent is surely onto a winner with its list of the Ten Most Ridiculous Lawsuits, but so too the New York Daily News, going one better with the Eleven Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of all Time. However, as Robert Ambrogi notes at Legal Blog Watch, the overlap between the two lists leaves us with a [...]
Among his forays in the world of online newspaper journalism, Blade has noted that the Daily Mail has a habit of using images from Flickr sans acknowledgement of their provenance. As has previously been noted here, all that Flickrs is not free, and a sophisticated media organisation such as the Mail must know this. Why, [...]
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A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud, 1930 – present, cricket player and commentator.