Simon Heffer Attacks Telegraph Staff Over Poor Speling

Life as a Telegraph staffer isn’t exactly a bundle of joy right now. Let’s recap: after more than two years of overly drawn out bloodletting, Will…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | November 28, 2008 8:11PM | 1 Comment »

The End of the Dollar

 This year, the US national debt crossed the US $10 trillion threshold. That’s a heap of money. If you took that many dollar…

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Posted by John Rapley in Hot Money | November 28, 2008 8:06PM | No Comments »

ITV Succumbs to Google “Parasites,” In Denial About Imminent Lobotomy

Oh dear. The UK’s biggest commercial TV station today bowed to the inevitable, and announced a deal with Google that will…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | November 28, 2008 5:22PM | 1 Comment »

Nokia Starts Shipping iPhone Competitor, Gives Up On Trying To Keep Pace With Japan

Neatly serving to show just how wide the gulf is between Japan and the rest of the world when it comes to mobile phones, Nokia…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 27, 2008 3:57PM | 2 Comments »

The Butcher’s Shop Live – TONIGHT!

After the success of the first one last month, we’re holding another one of our Butcher’s Shop events TONIGHT! Join us for an evening of…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Events | November 27, 2008 10:44AM | 1 Comment »

Worst People In World Thankfully Stranded In Bangkok Airport

If you get too wrapped up in this financial crisis, you can sometimes forget there’s a whole world of happy news out there, like the…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Other | November 26, 2008 2:14PM | 7 Comments »

Alex Salmond Slips In Dodgy Local Income Tax, Gets Told To Join Gym By The Guardian

Alex Salmond, the Scottish PM who dreams of a Scotland floating away from England on a sea of oil, has waited until all…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 26, 2008 1:29PM | 1 Comment »

Russia Tells Ukraine To Pay Its Gas Bill, Or They’ll Send The Boys Round

As the rouble continues its slow decline alongside a relatively healthy euro, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is facing pressure to ditch

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Posted by Carmody Wilson in Other | November 26, 2008 12:07PM | 1 Comment »

Joseph Cassano, Formerly Of AIG, Hides In London as Storm Clouds Gather

Joseph Cassano, the former CEO of now-heavily-bailed AIG Insurance, who’s lying low in Knightsbridge around the corner from Harrods somewhere, refusing all interviews,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 26, 2008 11:29AM | 5 Comments »

Diary 22: Some Respite

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Posted by James Nash in Other | November 26, 2008 10:34AM | No Comments »

Twitter Wooed By Facebook On The Satin Sheets Of Venture Capital

It’s emerged today that Twitter, the short-message-based social networking tool beloved of those with low attention spans and politicians trying to get funk-ay,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 25, 2008 12:40PM | 2 Comments »

Felix Dennis Cackles, Having Sold Private Equity Goons Quadrangle a US $250 Million Hospital Pass

The Bearded Dwarf rides again. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Alpha Media, the publisher of Maxim and music magazine Blender,…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | November 25, 2008 12:08PM | 6 Comments »