The Olympic Development Authority has replaced the word ‘future’ with the word ‘legacy’, presumably using the useful ‘edit / replace’ tool on Microsoft Word.
Posts Tagged as ‘media’
March 14, 2009
Our deafening silence on HIV in the UK
“When you tell peopleyou have HIV, you kind of think everyone is going to be ok, because it’s the 21st century. That’s actually not the case.”
January 12, 2009
Cameron’s latest through-the-keyhole antics reveal he has lost the plot
Those worktops are just so obviously just going to wind everyone up, especially the newly cash-strapped middle class, who have had to downgrade from great slabs of granite to MDF covered in sticky back plastic.
November 27, 2008
In praise of student journalism
spent last night at the Guardian Student Media Awards in Shoreditch. Sadly, our student newspaper Varsity didn’t scoop the ‘Best Newspaper’ award it was nominated for, but it was a fantastic evening, and almost worth going for the free bar and canapés alone.
Introducing the awards, Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger said that with graduate trainee [...]
October 29, 2008
Blame the Beeb, not Brand
In a free society, cultural life will be full of controversial and offensive figures… but no-one is forced to broadcast it.
October 20, 2008
Why do journalists get such a bad press?
Today’s reports that family courts are soon to be open to media scrutiny should be welcomed. Given that social services have failed too disastrously, too frequently in recent years, it seems difficult to argue that pivotal decisions about child welfare remain shrouded in secrecy.
Yet, astonishingly, this was the argument put forward today by those public [...]
