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Film premiers are usually the arena for dull, self congratulatory speeches and some cinema theory babble.
Not so the Frost/Nixon Q&A premier last night (apart…
Posted by Becky North in Other | January 23, 2009 2:14PM | 4 Comments »
Last week J D Wetherspoon announced it was making it their mission to offer 99p pints to the poor and destitute seeking beery reprieve within…
Posted by Trista Orchard in Hot Money | January 22, 2009 6:05PM | 2 Comments »
Arthur Nadel, who we saw running away from the cops last week after scamming people with his inflated hedge fund, was…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 22, 2009 1:09PM | 1 Comment »
Alexander Lebedev, London’s hippest new oligarch and the new owner of the Evening Standard, gives a revealing interview in the FT today.…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | January 22, 2009 11:27AM | 1 Comment »
Check out this little chap - a 12-year-old sprite who’s travelling the world with his well-to-do Dad during his gap year. That’s right, a gap…
Posted by Chris Baraniuk in Hot Money | January 22, 2009 10:02AM | 3 Comments »
We’ve been following the progress of the big broadcasting story of the year, namely what’s going to happen to Channel 4…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | January 21, 2009 4:49PM | No Comments »
Kate Greene of MIT Technology Review reports today on txteagle, an American start-up founded by Nathan Eagle, a research fellow…
Posted by Jack Roberts in Hot Money | January 21, 2009 2:52PM | 5 Comments »
News just through on a suspected plagiarism scandal involving President Obama’s speech writer Jon Favreau. It appears that the inauguration speech for the 44th US…
Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Other | January 21, 2009 1:47PM | 4 Comments »
The Pope is entering the digital age with Google at his right hand side, creating the Vatican’s own Youtube channel. Christianity was last…
Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | January 21, 2009 1:35PM | 4 Comments »
While we listened to Obama’s stirring words as well as BBC Washington correspondent Matt Frei’s burbled anecdotes about his kids, the stock markets resolutely failed…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 21, 2009 12:24PM | 2 Comments »
If you were in any doubt over whether we’re recessed, just ask an actor. Or a dancer. Or an Edinburgh Fringe box-office employee. As Posted by Carmody Wilson in Creative Economy | January 20, 2009 3:55PM | No Comments »
Predictably, everyone’s in a right tizz about Alistair Darling’s new bailout package, mostly the bit about insuring against toxic assets, and the lack…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 20, 2009 3:34PM | No Comments »
