Words Dept.: archive

It’s easy to buy into the Sun’s rhetoric that by not backing Labour at the next election, as it will officially announce tomorrow, the paper will somehow guide public opinion in favour of the Tories. You can almost sense the “Sun wot won it for Dave” headlines now. I’ve just watched the Sun’s political editor [...]

Although I don’t generally comment on pop music and its purveyors, I couldn’t help but observe the hand-wringing over whether or not, technically speaking, the Sugababes – now that yet another member has quit – actually still “exist”. What’s apparently happened, in case you don’t read the FT, is that the three original members of [...]

Apologies for not getting back to you. I’m here now, it’s OK. I’ve been thinking a lot about newspapers recently. About how I never buy one anymore except when I’m going on a long train journey, about the supposed closure of the Observer (which isn’t now happening), about what I can’t help thinking is gross [...]

Look kids! It’s DJ Davey C drinking a pint of bitter and looking like a dude! He’s going to be in town at the start of October and his peeps are hosting a wicked all night rave at the Pure night club! According to the e-flyer (helpfully distributed this week by Manchester Confidential to all [...]

Britain’s cleverest man. Polymath. National treasure. All descriptions applied at various times to Mr Stephen Fry. To celebrate the first episode tonight of Fry’s new BBC2 series Last Chance To See, I’ve gone to the trouble of assembling some of this intellectual giant’s most illuminating quotes. There’s something here, I feel, for us all to [...]

There’s a new video that’s been produced to show what MediaCity in Salford is going to look like in 2011. As this is the year the BBC are due to move in, one can only conclude that the broadcaster is planning to employ a load of cartoon turtles and legions of weird flourescent blobs. The [...]