Here’s the text of an email I was shown the other day. It was sent by an estate agent, trying to sell a commercial plot. > I am happy to meet you on site at a time that suits and will bring along a copy of the floor plans

Confessions of a prime ministerial advisor emerged in London this week. The person in charge of “event planning” during last year’s UK general election revealed a mistake. It seems the Campaign Schedule has a name; The Grid. It has the ring of an oppressive sci-fi dystopian masterplan which can

Fascinating social media news emerged through a British insurer this week. They had a product banned by Facebook. In part you suspect, because Facebook didn’t think of the idea themselves. In widely reported events, Admiral Insurance developed a quote process for drivers wanting car insurance for the first ever

Channel 4 News [http://www.channel4.com/news/] sent sleeves-up terrier Michael Crick to investigate US Presidential election “ground game”. He mined intel from the Democrat side. Jim Messina managed Obama’s data teams. From 2008 to re-election in 2012 it’s crew grew from 12 to 165.  At which

I recently saw again [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/23/slang-changing-face-of-cool-vulgar-tongues-max-decharne] this pic that sped around the web three years ago when a London school created “formal language areas” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This final offence of YEAH in particular reminds me of something I read over twenty years ago. Tom

In the UK there was plenty of coverage about the recent passing of a Grimsby fish filleter. Including, we learnt, that he hated that particular tabloid label. Keyboardist Rod Temperton went straight from writing mid-70s britfunk to crafting Michael Jackson’s most loved work. Producer Quincy Jones recalls first deciding