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Culture and politics on stage at Woodstock
David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party, the crime fiction writer PD James and the acclaimed historian Simon Schama, are to take centre stage at Woodstock Literary Festival this weekend.
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Keen on New Media: Digital Barbarism - the electronic game
Friday, 10 October 2008
Once a trickle, books about the imminent digital apocalypse are fast becoming a flood.
Regional news could be outsourced, says ITV boss
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
ITV's executive chairman Michael Grade suggested today that the broadcaster could hand over responsibility for regional news to another organisation.
Keen on New Media: Twitter - the law of the vital few
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
"The Law of the Vital Few" is amongst the most unpopular ideas of the last two hundred years
Paxman: BBC fawns over Royal family
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Jeremy Paxman accused the BBC of "fawning" over the Royal Family, claiming in the past it had seen itself as "a courtier".
Mosley's crusade to banish 'kiss and tells'
Monday, 6 October 2008
For some litigants, the award of £60,000 and a declaration that a liking for sado-masochistic orgies with prostitutes is broadly nobody else's business would have been a satisfactory outcome. But not all litigants are 68-year-old Formula One bosses with a burning sense of injustice and a desire to foist a privacy law on Britain.
Will the internet survive the economic meltdown?
Monday, 6 October 2008
Sly Bailey says the internet boom is about to go bust. But is the Mirror chief right? Ian Reeves investigates
Claire Beale On Advertising: A new creature stalks the giants of adland
Monday, 6 October 2008
This week I have a story for you that could change the international advertising landscape. But first, let's wallow in a little bit of advertising nostalgia.
The loser takes it all: The strange career of Toby Young
Monday, 6 October 2008
Toby Young blew the chance of success in the US. Now a film is making him famous for failure
Stephen Glover on the Press: It has its faults, but we should be proud of the British press
Monday, 6 October 2008
National newspapers are supposedly dying. Half of them are losing money. All of them are losing sales. The internet is the future – and there appears to be little money even there for publishers. The glory days are over, and from now on it is all about managing decline.
Matthew Norman: Curse of the Newsnight soothsayer
Monday, 6 October 2008
I am increasingly obsessed by the work of that sleek transatlantic focus groupie Frank Luntz. Frank's regular appearances on Newsnight probably make him our second-most-influential American political pundit after Irwin Stelzer, the bristly moustachioed Murdoch envoy and economic Ardnsassac (everything this reverse Cassandra predicts is proved wrong, yet still people trust his soothsaying). Frank doesn't offer his own opinions, of course, at least not openly. Yet whenever he crops up with a little group of swing voters, who sit through political speeches twiddling their dials to express gut reaction, the results tend towards the perplexing. A few weeks ago, almost his entire group of Nick Clegg-watchers said they'd be voting Lib Dem at the next election, and time will tell whether Mr Clegg does pocket a majority of about 250.
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Columnist Comments
• Dominic Lawson: Don't bank on the Government
Of course! Why didn't we think of that before? It's the state which should be running banks, with civil servants on the boards instead of those bonus-fixated businessmen.
• Matthew Norman: Peculiar tragedy of this flawed hero
For one whose single rhetorical flourish is the gratingly incessant appellation "My friends", John McCain has very few left
• Adrian Hamilton: Separating politicians and the City
When it comes to it, there is just a huge divide
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