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> David Bowie – Blackstar Steven Wilson – 4 ½ My Robot Friend – Open The Book The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep… Katy B – Honey ABC – The Lexicon Of Love II Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman Frost – Falling Satellites Pearl Handled Revolver – If the Devil Cast His Net Tegan & Sara – Love

I came across two depressingly familiar stories simultaneously in Cape Town recently. They expose the hypocrisy of buyers. I’m always happy to do this. The first concerned a global magazine brand. They wanted catering for a swanky 150-person event. They battered the caterer down so much that they didn’

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/08/salesforce-mktg-figs-2013.jpg] I was searching out some information for a client in Asia. I came across a marketing page for cloud/web/SaaS/on-demand crm provider Salesforce. The above pic was on that page. They were trumpeting the improvements users of their

Listicles continue their seemingly unassailable rise. So how could I resist the dailymail clickbait of 10 signs your relationship won’t work [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3916220/The-10-signs-relationship-WON-T-work-including-pet-gives-long-takes-meet-friends.html] ? Aimed perhaps at the early stages of getting together, a point at which ‘idealisation’ is in play, here’s

The year-end charting fixation sees logovores the world over rush to crown their word of the year. Brexitvia Collins is already in. Now Oxford try and snare the Left’s approval with post-truth; > “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion

Perhaps here’s an important selling word; “the”. I now know this because I heard a Sussex Uni linguist on the radio discussing the 2016 US presidential election [http://qz.com/806174/second-presidential-debate-linguistics-explains-why-donald-trump-sounds-racist-when-he-says-the-african-americans/] . She described Othering. Her definition has sinister overtones of victimisation; “treating people from another group as less

Listening intently to the US election vote-count coverage, one thing was abundantly clear. Metropolitan liberal elites were having kittens. The shock displayed by the parade of indignant Establishment politicians, analysts and commentators felt as misguided as it was imbalanced. And that’s from someone who didn’t have a dog

The first ever mealtime photo – The Set Table by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in France 1827 – using an enhanced copy, colourised by Algorithmia online then brightened by Apple’s ios photo editor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It appears restaurateurs the world over are creating deliberately social media savvy meals. Every menu set to have

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