SUGAR AND PING PONG BALLS
~ Posted by Samantha Weinberg, July 5th 2012Yesterday was a red-letter day for science. On the BBC News, Professor Brian Cox was hailing "one of the biggest scientific discoveries of all time". But the...
View ArticleTHE CRITICAL EQUATION
~ Posted by Robert Butler, August 29th 2012Anyone who works as a critic encounters a set of stock reactions: "What right do you have to say what's good and what's bad?" or "Do you do any writing of...
View ArticleTHE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN IS...
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View ArticleBE CLEAR ABOUT THE CLOUD
~ Posted by Hazel Sheffield, October 25th 2012When I left my iPhone in a yellow cab this summer and had to replace it with a new one next day, I watched, amazed, as all of my photos, music and phone...
View ArticleSANDY IN LONG SHOT AND CLOSE-UP
~ Posted by Simon Willis, October 30th 2012Yesterday, as Hurricane Sandy made its way towards the east coast of America, thousands of people began posting their photographs online, showing how their...
View ArticleTHIS YEAR'S PRESIDENTIAL QUALITY
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View ArticleTHE GENDER-DEFINED BIC
~ Posted by Simon Willis, November 30th 2012There's a race going on at Amazon.co.uk. Back in August, the pen manufacturer Bic released the "Bic for her", a lightweight pen featuring a comfy rubber...
View ArticleWHY YOU SHOULD LEARN WELSH
~ Posted by Jasper Rees, January 11th 2013Why do we learn other languages? The English are subject to no pressing need, having successfully exported their own communication tool around the planet to...
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AFTERNOON EVERYONE
~ Posted by Robert Butler, March 22nd 2012This week's edition of the New Yorker is "the style issue", so I found myself paying particular attention to the magazine's style. The first main feature is...
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BETWEEN THE POSTS: 3
~ Posted by Robert Butler, April 20th 2012In yesterday's post, "Bradley Manning's Education", we noted that it's possible to watch Tim Price's new play "The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning", which is...
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THE COVER THAT NEARLY WASN'T
~ Posted by Kassia St Clair, July 4th 2012It's not often that the cover of a culture and lifestyle magazine hinges on the outcome of a fight between two women in northern China. Especially when...
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TWITTER MOCKS VOGUE
~ Posted by Robert Butler, July 31st 2012The journalist Joan Juliet Buck has written an article for Newsweek which attempts to explain the circumstances behind the egregious one she wrote about Asma...
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TEN BEST MOVIES SINCE 2002
~ Posted by Nicholas Barber, August 3rd 2012The new Sight & Sound poll, which names "Vertigo" as the greatest film of all time, isn’t “new” in every sense. The top ten list of the greatest films...
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FOOTBALL GETS GRAPHIC
~ Posted by Pip Wroe, January 14th 2013It was the flames, the skull and the dripping blood that caught my attention. I was in the football section of Foyles bookshop on the Charing Cross Road when I...
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SMART, SALTY AND GONE
~ Posted by Hazel Sheffield, February 7th 2013It lasted longer than it might have in a decade that was not kind to magazines. But the Stool Pigeon, a music newspaper that unleashed an inky tirade on...
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AT THE NEW YORKER FESTIVAL
~ Posted by Robert Butler, October 5th 2013Our literary editor Maggie Fergusson emails from New York about the impressive struggle to get tickets for the New Yorker Festival: Even for Mastercard...
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BRAND EXTENSIONS, MULTI-PLATFORMS
~ Posted by Robert Butler, November 12th 2013Last night was the British Society of Magazine Editors' Awards, and this magazine was shortlisted for two of the 26 categories, which ranged from the...
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