Month: February 2005
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What I Can Do If Attacked
Thank goodness that the government have published their advice on what I can and cannot do should I be attacked in my own home! I recommend downloading the PDF and pinning it up somewhere so that you can regularly consult it. I certainly needed to know what the definition of “reasonable force” is. For example,…
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Top Brands
There’s lots of complete nonsense being spouted about a survey supposedly listing the world’s top brands. Supposedly Apple is the brand with “the most global impact” in 2004. Complete nonsense. This is followed by Google, then Ikea, Starbucks and Al Jazeera. These brands are patently the ones that affect a certain type of monied middle-class…
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Ed Reardon’s Week
I’ve been catching up with a radio comedy I’ve read nothing about anywhere called Ed Reardon’s Week. Episode 4 is on the BBC’s Listen Again player at the moment, but I knew I was going to enjoy this when “Ed” began his diary bemoaning book reviews and how “Fattie” would be laying into his book…
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Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is nearly upon us – although I’ve only seen the trailers on the web rather than on air, so little C4 am I watching these days (Well there wasn’t a trailer for it during Time Team at the weekend, so that’s me screwed – and I’ve got a fortnight’s worth of Shameless to…