Readers outside of London should feel privileged that they have been spared Nike’s latest marketing/CSR initiative: Run London. They’re adverts are everywhere and they have been driving me nuts. Irritation the First: this cheery repackaging of North versus South London rivalry. In truth, there is no such rivalry, just a simple tribalistic identity rooted in… Continue reading Things wot I hate: Run London adverts
Month: August 2006
It must be the silly season…
… why else would the Guardian be so desperate that it has chosen now to publish a story announcing that (gasp!) Tony Benn is critical of the government and (shock!) his son is a member of the cabinet! In what way is this earth shattering news to anyone (that is anyone outside of the American… Continue reading It must be the silly season…
Homer who?
There is a question which this article does not (dares not?) ask: how retarded must the 2 out of 5 Americans who don’t know who Homer Simpson’s son be? If people are that ignorant about popular culture, what hope is there for politics?