Archive for November, 2007

Simon Fuller pulls off another triumph

Well you have to hand it to the ace manager.Most bands who return to the fold at least had a bit of talent in the first place, even if they’ve lost it by the time they come back to top …

Mail columnist says his editor’s on the way out

And he should know, surely.Paul Dacre has ruled Associated Newspapers with the proverbial rod of iron for the past decade and a half but Stephen Glover, his political columnist, writes in the Independent today that he’s stepping down as editor …

Back the Sun! A knighthood for Brucie

The Sun is running a campaign, in a somewhat half-hearted way, to secure a knighthood for ancient presenter Bruce Forsyth, still confounding the sceptics by fronting up BBC mega-hit ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’Well there’s nothing half-hearted about your correspondent’s support for …

Guinness spends £10m on an ad!

We keep hearing that TV advertising is dead, because advertisers are spending all their money on the internet.But when you’ve got to go for it, go for it big.

Guinness has apparently spent £10m on this ad, that’s before they shell …

They used to watch the players

There’s always been a cult of the manager in football; it took off in the Sixties and Seventies with larger than life characters like Bill Shankly at Liverpool and the inimitable Brian Clough at Derby and Nottingham Forest.

A bereft tabloid …

The end of the rodomontade

Sometimes it is the way you tell them. The fallen press baron Conrad Black has long waged war on the ‘vermin’ of the Canadian press, none more so than vermin-in-chief, one Peter C Newman.

Not so surprising then that Newman has …

Off to the races

Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s ‘big tent’ looks a bit bigger this evening; in fact it looks a bit like a campsite somewhere near Le Mans.

Defence Procurement Minister Lord Grayson, who made lots of dosh flogging pharmaceuticals to the NHS, is …

What are we to make of Sir Ian Blair?

Today the London Assembly voted to defenestrate Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, over the appalling series of cock-ups that resulted in innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes being killed (some would put it more strongly) on a …

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