It’s no secret that the newspaper industry is in trouble. Advertising revenue is going down as fast as a well-paid call girl. It’s the internet what done it. Now that everyone expects to get news and information free on line, …
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A little surprise for you net-fiends
My friend Michael Rhodes the excellent web-meister at Leger Holidays sent me something interesting last week. It seems that while many of us marketers are wetting our pants at the wonders of the internet 60% of UK consumers think offline …
Read MoreLurching somewhere between the obscene and the surreal …
…is the performance of the current, astonishingly cretinous British maladministration. What do you call somebody who pays too much for something? Not very smart. But what do you call somebody who pays twice as much as necessary for something that …
Read MoreWhich teenage problem matters more to you?
Have you ever visited Postman Al’s website? Postman Al Johnson runs the Home Office, and a quick trip to his crazed online realm is all you need to know what’s wrong with things in BloatoLand. This is the lead story …
Read MoreAbsolutely right, Mr. Ingrams,
In my spare time I no longer read Schopenhauer or Tolstoy, but mostly thrillers, historical novels, books about old London, biographies, diaries, memoirs and such. I have mentioned before, I hope, James Lees-Milne, whose utterly magnificent diaries I have been …
Read MoreThe celebrated military expert Bob “bollocks” Arseworth makes a prediction
One cannot actually guarantee that every single member of the current cabinet will be utterly useless, dishonest and cretinous, but the selection policy certainly helps. Mr. Bob Arseworth, currently defence secretary, has been almost permanently in office since the Bliar …
Read MorePutrid salute to gullibility
Today I received – not for the first time – a message from “Continental Who’s Who”. It was a bit like the one I keep getting from someone who tells me I can belong to something vaguely, but not really, …
Read MoreTell it to the polar bears, girl
Yesterday was an important day for me. July 4th was my late mother’s birthday. On that date here in the U.S., though, they celebrate their freedom from us Brits. Last night I concluded this gave everyone the right to get …
Read MoreNecropower rules, OK
If you ever wonder about the difference between being alive and dead, wonder no more. Mark Roesler, chairman and chief executive officer of CMG Worldwide, whose clients include James Dean and Marilyn Monroe said yesterday, re Michael Jackson: “There’s really …
Read MoreSmirking Mandy takes piss – again
I see Lord Mandelbum has taken time off from his task of making sure the Bliar’s lies about the Iraq war are not revealed to say something risibly hypocritical even by his obscenely subterranean standards. The “Business Secretary” whose chief …
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