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Disaster capitalism in your kitchen
Cause-related marketing, they call it. Linking purchases of a branded product or service to help for a worthy cause: computers for schools, say, or product (RED). The idea being that merely by bu… more »
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Disaster capitalism in your kitchen
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johnbrissenden wrote 3 weeks ago: Cause-related marketing, they call it. Linking purchases of a branded product or service to help … more »
The corporation as paedophile
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johnbrissenden wrote 7 months ago: I spend a lot of time discussing corporate social responsibility with my students, and it is a comp … more »
The riddle of the Mail
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johnbrissenden wrote 8 months ago: I have recently got around to reading Simon Winder’s The Man Who Saved Britain, an amusing … more »
Middle-class, middle-aged white man moves right, shits out book. World yawns.
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johnbrissenden wrote 10 months ago: I’m not going to dignify the over-publicised thumbsuckings of the Observer’s former TV … more »
Capital is the pimp, Kamm its whore
johnbrissenden wrote 10 months ago: Sweet irony. Here comes Oliver Kamm (above), he of the world’s most punchable face, to lectu … more »
Christmas starts earlier every year
johnbrissenden wrote 11 months ago: Just as Easter eggs appear in the shops on Boxing Day; just as we can expect the first Christmas tin … more »
Lookey-likey
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johnbrissenden wrote 11 months ago: Jamie’s post on Ricky Gervais reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to say for a whi … more »
With friends like Richard...
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johnbrissenden wrote 12 months ago: Well that didn’t last long. The Chicken Yoghurt recently marked Tony Blair’s new job a … more »
Euston Manifesto latest: I don't want you playing with those nasty boys
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johnbrissenden wrote 1 year ago: The Euston Manifesto group recently organised a discussion on the future of getting these uppity t … more »
It's the capitalism, stupid
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johnbrissenden wrote 1 year ago: OK, read this, pausing only to notice that the people quoted include a Lucy, Poppy and Virginia, and … more »
By their inadequacy shall ye know them
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john wrote 1 year ago: Even the layperson can spot certain trends associated with global warming. For example, I note that … more »
Thought Police foil another enemy of the Party
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john wrote 1 year ago: It’s a strange experience, living in a country where ostentatious arrests are regularly made … more »
Top new words of 2006
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john wrote 1 year ago: From Word Spy, here’s a list of the Top 10 words and phrases coined in 2006: celebutard n. a … more »
Here comes the new boss
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john wrote 1 year ago: Over the coming days, you’ll hear a lot about Donald Rumsfeld’s successor at the Pentag … more »
Coping with the veiled threat
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john wrote 1 year ago: You know the way that veiled Muslim women cause so much fear and resentment? Well, in the best trad … more »
Who is 'Melanie Phillips'?
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john wrote 1 year ago: Who wants to know? Not Nikki from Big Brother, but Steven Poole at Unspeak, who feigns a lofty, Hig … more »
If this is democracy, give me death
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john wrote 1 year ago: That pudgy-faced posh bloke seems awfully nice, but I cross the street to avoid people like him; wh … more »
Structured monosemy, or win free sex by 6pm tonight*
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john wrote 1 year ago: As the bombs rain down on Lebanon and 600,000 people - 15 per cent of Lebanon’s population - … more »
The only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year
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john wrote 1 year ago: ‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the … more »
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