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Blair is an alien – official
bandit Originally uploaded by Darth_munki. Just saw this whizzing by on the flickr Zeitgeist stream…
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Leeds Backlash
Here’s a turn up for the books – after days of no doubt frenzied discussions, Marketing Leeds have responded. My correspondent is Duncan (we are apparently already on first name terms) who tells me that “as you will no doubt be aware, it is impossible to copyright a placename, or indeed any standard English word.…
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Leeds 0, Hong Kong 3 (Chan, hat trick)
Predictably, the dynamic folks at Marketing Leeds maintained a dignified silence in response to my e-mail, and after all, who could blame them? How were they to know that Hong Kong had been running a major marketing campaign for two years using the very slogan they had come up with? It’s not as if Jackie…
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Pinter’s surprise
Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | ‘They said you’ve a call from the Nobel committee. I said, why?’: Pinter, it seems, is pretty surprised to be awarded the Nobel. And, as might have been expected, he too feels it may be as much to do with his politics as with his plays. He says: “But…
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False Leeds
I notice that the Marketing Leeds people are shamelessly sticking with their Live It Love It slogan, and have even managed to copyright the word Leeds – how did that happen? Surely that can’t be right? I’ll ask them and report back. In the meantime, I think I’ll copyright, oooh, “Tunbridge Wells”… And has there…
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Pinter wins Nobel literary prize
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Pinter wins Nobel literary prize I suppose this is not entirely unexpected, though it will cause much harrumphing in certain quarters. I can’t help feeling that this is not so much an award for his literary output – what has he done in the last few years, really?…
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Meaningless Slogans No. 5769
BBC NEWS | England | West Yorkshire | Row over second-hand city slogan This is a hoot (Leeds in-joke). Two things need to be said. First, in answer to the councillors who asked whether the city has got value for £150,000 research and launch costs, the answer is NO. The second thing, leaving aside the…
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Fergie doll?
BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Fergie ‘too famous’ for bill banI’m with the judge here – the prospect of a Fergie doll is just too gruesome to contemplate. Presumably it would have auto red face function and special hairdryer effect…
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Diplomat ‘was real Shakespeare’
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Diplomat ‘was real Shakespeare’…to which the most obvious reply is “yeah, right.” I wonder why there is such an industry trying to prove that Shakespeare didn’t write the plays. Jonson, who had an even less privileged background than Shakespeare, has never, to my knowledge, been doubted as the…
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Literary greats ‘key to English’
BBC NEWS | Education | Literary greats ‘key to English’ Well – who knew, eh?