We’ve been hesitant about talk of green shoots and the property market, but could change be afoot? We wonder – ever so cautiously – thanks to this story from the Independent reporting on British Land’s half-year results, published yesterday.The group has seen its first rise in net asset value, the crucial barometer of success in [...]
There’s a nice piece in the FT on where the internet lives (answer: a grey building on an industrial estate outside Dublin) but as Stephen Fry (who else?) waxes lyrical about the power of Twitter, what we want to know is this: where does Twitter live? And wouldn’t be nice if it was somewhere with [...]
There are currently so many stories about the unfairness of the libel laws doing the rounds that it’s almost as if the media has tacitly agreed on a campaign to force change. This would be no bad thing, for there is much that could be improved in UK libel law. But as newspaper advertising revenue [...]
The Independent has an interesting piece today on a curious quid pro quo proposed by technology giant Apple: the company has filed a new patent application in the United States to protect software technology which will force consumers to watch or listen to adverts on their products. The consumer upside? Cheaper products. Blade became a [...]
Blade fears that he should dissuade his offspring from a career in IT having received the following press release (but he takes heart in the absence of lawyers and journalists in the list of the UK’s Top 10 Most Inactive Professions): A study of 1,734 working Brits by the UK’s leading weight loss personal training [...]
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).