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Archive for February, 2009

TONIGHT! The Butcher’s Shop, Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin – RECESSION SPECIAL!

Prepare your prose for the taste of cold editorial steel: The Butcher’s Shop, BAD IDEA’s unique writing workshop is BACK TONIGHT for a…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events | February 26, 2009 2:43PM | No Comments »


How Not To Write a Novel: an Interview with Authors Howard Mittlemark and Sandra Newman

How Not To Write A Novel by Howard Mittlemark, 51, and Sandra Newman, 43, is a set of guidelines on what to avoid to give…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Other | February 26, 2009 1:14PM | 2 Comments »


Oswald Grubel Joins UBS, Tries To Undo Damage Of Marcel Ospel Mistakes

Oswald Grubel Joins UBS, Tries To Undo Damage Of Marcel Ospel Mistakes

Oswald Grubel, the former head of Credit Suisse with eyes that point in different directions, has turned to the dark side and signed up as…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 26, 2009 12:11PM | 4 Comments »


Nicolas Sarkozy And Pirate Bay Prosecutors Are Like Your Dad Doing An Impression Of A Rapper

Nicolas Sarkozy And Pirate Bay Prosecutors Are Like Your Dad Doing An Impression Of A Rapper

Nicolas Sarkozy, in a bad week for politicians trying to connect with the yoof, has caused a mini ruckus with psychedelic art-poppers of the moment MGMT, and…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | February 25, 2009 3:31PM | 4 Comments »


London Fashion Week Full Of Colour And Ridiculousness, Unlike New York

London Fashion Week Full Of Colour And Ridiculousness, Unlike New York

London Fashion Week winds up today, and it looks like while New York Fashion Week last week was a moping ball of neuroses concerning the…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | February 25, 2009 12:57PM | 2 Comments »


AIG Asking For More Bailout Money, Despite Being An Obvious Candidate For Bankruptcy

AIG Asking For More Bailout Money, Despite Being An Obvious Candidate For Bankruptcy

Yes, that’s right. AIG, the greedyguts who took $150bn of the first $700bn allotted for bailing out the entire US economy, not just insurance companies…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 24, 2009 2:22PM | 2 Comments »


Peter Chernin Steps Down, Rupert Murdoch Steps Up At News Corp

Peter Chernin Steps Down, Rupert Murdoch Steps Up At News Corp

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that its president and CEO, Peter Chernin, is stepping down to a life of sweet film production…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | February 24, 2009 11:55AM | 1 Comment »


BAD IDEA presents Printomortis – Episode Four

Here’s the fourth and final episode of PRINTOMORTIS, our drama micro-series following life at an independent magazine in the dying days of print. 

For…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Podcasts & Video | February 23, 2009 2:39PM | 1 Comment »


A Closer Look at the New York Post’s Obama ‘Ape Stimulus’ Cartoon


N.B. to see the original cartoon by Sean Delonas, click here.

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Posted by James Nash in Other | February 23, 2009 1:26PM | 3 Comments »


The Committee to Save Wall Street?

It’s 10 years ago last week. There, on the cover of Time magazine, looking more self-satisfied than ever, stood the three men who would

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Posted by John Rapley in Hot Money | February 23, 2009 1:10PM | 1 Comment »


Guy Hands Absorbs Cash-Strapped Investors, Has To Put Up With Lily Allen's Whining

Guy Hands Absorbs Cash-Strapped Investors, And Has To Put Up With Lily Allen’s Whining

Guy Hands, tufty private equity monger and karaoke fiend, has announced, as reported by the FT this morning, that he’s had…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 23, 2009 12:13PM | 1 Comment »


Rats Are Better Futures Traders Than Humans, Says Possibly Mental Artist Michael Marcovici

Rats Are Better Futures Traders Than Humans, Says Possibly Mental Artist Michael Marcovici

Michael Marcovici, a Vienna-based artist, has devised a rather amusing and convoluted method of proving that your average futures trader has less nous…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | February 19, 2009 3:24PM | 1 Comment »